Startups

Events Preview: Perfect your pitch, IOTSummitKC

By Tommy Felts / July 30, 2015

There are a boatload of entrepreneurial events hosted in Kansas City on a weekly basis. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, investor, supporter or curious Kansas Citian, we’d recommend these upcoming events for you. WEEKLY EVENT PREVIEW The Angel Series: Pitching to Investors When: July 30 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Where: Enterprise Center of Johnson County Learn…

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KCK health startup scores $270K to give patients a voice

By Tommy Felts / July 30, 2015

An area startup is using a recent injection of funds to better provide hospitals with valuable feedback from patients. PatientsVoices, based in Kansas City, Kan., nabbed $270,000 from several organizations to boost its technology that analyzes and distributes information about patients’ experiences. Organizations such as the National Science Foundation, Google and Digital Sandbox KC each…

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17 KC entrepreneurs selected to ‘ScaleUP!’

By Tommy Felts / July 29, 2015

A KCSourceLink program that connects high-achieving entrepreneurs with mentors and resources announced its latest brood of businesspeople. ScaleUp! KC revealed Wednesday a group of 17 Kansas City-area entrepreneurs that hope to kick their businesses into higher gear. The diverse group includes entrepreneurs in such fields as software, transportation, fitness, food and more. It is the…

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Kauffman Foundation dishing $2M to programs for entrepreneurs

By Tommy Felts / July 29, 2015

With a new CEO and revamped strategic plan, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is bolstering its support of U.S. programs aimed at helping entrepreneurs. The Kansas City-based foundation is allocating about $2 million in grants to tax-exempt organizations expanding programs that are successful in supporting U.S. entrepreneurs. The grants, which will range between $250,000 and…

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SpiderOak nabs $3.5M for ‘Zero Knowledge’ software

By Tommy Felts / July 24, 2015

SpiderOak recently closed a multi-million dollar round that will grow its team and boost development of its privacy cloud software. The company, which creates software that encrypts data without ever learning its actual contents, raised a $3.5 million Series A round that also will help fund its transition from Chicago to Kansas City. Chicago-based OCA…

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