Startups

Angus Kennard, Inauro, Luke Anear, SafetyCulture, and Craig Kesby, Inauro

SafetyCulture invests $2.1M in IoT startup Inauro, growing tech portfolio focused on frontline safety

By Tommy Felts / June 7, 2022

A $2.1 million investment by SafetyCulture into a data and IoT software startup is part of an ongoing, focused effort to boost emerging technologies that enhance frontline processes, the global workplace operations company said Monday. “We’re constantly pushing to find new ways to innovate and automate processes so tasks can be done to higher standards,…

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Dusty Birge, Snappy Workflow

Snappy Workflow closes $1M round with electric backing from Nebraska investors

By Tommy Felts / June 7, 2022

Startland News’ Startup Road Trip series explores innovative and uncommon ideas finding success in rural America and Midwestern startup hubs outside the Kansas City metro. This series is possible thanks to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which leads a collaborative, nationwide effort to identify and remove large and small barriers to new business creation. KEARNEY,…

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C2FO primes for global expansion with C-suite adds; new CFO joins from post-IPO SelectQuote

By Tommy Felts / June 7, 2022

Editor’s note: C2FO is a financial partner of Startland News. Two new C-suite appointments to C2FO’s leadership team come as the Kansas City-based startup swells to record funding activity and projects new phases for its global expansion and growth. Ragui Selwanes, a veteran tech executive, joins C2FO as chief product and technology officer, a newly…

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‘Cyderes’ emerges from Fishtech, Herjavec merger; new cybersecurity powerhouse aims to reshape market

By Tommy Felts / June 7, 2022

Editor’s note: Cyderes is a financial partner of Startland News, supporting Community Builders to Watch and Startland News Live. Security stakes are at an all-time high, said Robert Herjavec, star of ABC’s “Shark Tank” and CEO of the newly announced Cyderes — a rebranded cybersecurity leader with its sights set no lower than becoming the new…

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Chris Goode, Ruby Jean's Juicery

Junior Achievement honoring Ruby Jean’s founder with its 2022 KC Innovator Award

By Tommy Felts / May 27, 2022

A group hoping to inspire the next generation of leaders, thinkers and doers has tapped a young entrepreneur with a healthy appetite for expansion as its next KC Innovator Award winner. Chris Goode, founder of Ruby Jean’s Juicery, is set to be honored with the award Nov. 1 during the Junior Achievement of Kansas City’s…

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