Tag: Accelerators & Incubators

UMKC, Digital Sandbox KC partnership to maximize resources, create jobs

By Tommy Felts / June 4, 2015

The University of Missouri-Kansas City’s E-Scholars program has partnered with a business incubator program to provide resources and capital to student entrepreneurs. The program has partnered with Digital Sandbox KC to offer inroads to students to further develop their business projects with additional funding. “The UMKC Entrepreneurship Scholars program has a very specific goal –…

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Lean Lab eyes $25K in national pitch contest

By Tommy Felts / May 27, 2015

The Lean Lab, a Kansas City-based education innovation incubator, is hoping to strike gold in a national pitch competition in California. The organization on Wednesday will be pitching its model in the Teach For America Social Innovation Awards, an annual competition in which the Lean Lab hopes to snag a $25,000 prize. Lean Lab is the…

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Security firm Nodal nabs $100K, ramps up hiring

By Tommy Felts / May 12, 2015

Good news is stacking up for Kansas City-based Nodal Industries. The security hardware tech company recently snagged $100,000 in seed funding as part of an opportunity to participate in the 500 Startup accelerator program, based in Mountain View, Calif. The funding will allow Nodal to hire up to eight people, as well as ramp up production…

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Play-It Health lands in top-ranked digital health accelerator

By Tommy Felts / May 12, 2015

As with many successful startups, the idea for Play-It Health was born out of personal experience with an unsolved industry need. Kim Gandy, a former clinician and now the founder and CEO of Play-It Health, recognized that patients were having trouble engaging and adhering to their ­medical regimen. In the worst cases, this led to…

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