LendingStandard closes $6.7M round with Flyover Capital among key longterm investors

By Tommy Felts | June 6, 2023

A Kansas City startup’s efforts to streamline the commercial real estate industry are not only reducing wasted time and frustration for lenders and borrowers, said Keith Molzer, it’s making good on investors’ expectations of the tech-driven Saas marketplace. “LendingStandard has listened and responded to what the market needs,” said Molzer, founding managing partner at Flyover…

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How LendingStandard’s new marketplace tapped into a record-setting real estate trend 

By Tommy Felts | February 16, 2021

A KCK startup opened a funding pipeline with its latest offering that exceeded $860 million in its first seven months of operation.  MultifamilyDebt.com — a multifamily lending marketplace fueled by Kansas City, Kansas-based LendingStandard — announced the achievement Monday, signaling rapid growth in the midst of a record-setting era for real estate.  “Providing quality loans and fast…

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WATCH: Faces of KC entrepreneurship find strength in numbers, community resources

By Tommy Felts | April 5, 2019

A new video from KCSourceLink highlights the faces of Kansas City entrepreneurship — featuring makers, innovators, tech founders and social entrepreneurs — and their connection to the resource network and ecosystem infrastructure in Kansas City. “It takes very special people to be able to put everything on the line,” says Reggie Gray, executive director of Black…

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We Create KC report: Half of top VC-backed companies tapped early-stage support

By Tommy Felts | April 5, 2019

In 2018, 50 percent of the top venture capital-funded companies in Kansas City got their start with early-stage investment programs that emerged after 2012, according to We Create KC 2019, KCSourceLink’s sixth annual state of entrepreneurship report. “That high percentage shows us how important these early-stage investment programs are to our entrepreneurs and our ecosystem,”…

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