Tag: Brad Feld

Sickweather team

Fitbit integrating Sickweather illness forecasting into new wearables

By Tommy Felts / May 10, 2018

Sickweather is stepping into the wearables market. A new partnership with industry leader Fitbit is expected to see the Kansas City-based startup’s illness forecasting technology integrated into Fitbit’s new products. “Smartwatches provide a powerful platform to deliver important health tools that help our users manage conditions more conveniently than ever before,” said James Park, co-founder…

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Techstars KC demo day: How to build inclusive teams that give first

By Tommy Felts / October 13, 2017

When Lesa Mitchell first learned she’d be managing director of the inaugural Techstars KC program, she thought to herself, “Wow, I’m going to have the most inclusive program in the world,” she said Thursday at the program’s demo day event. As it turns out, diversity and inclusion can be difficult to apply — even with…

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Kauffman Fellows hosting hundreds of global VCs in Kansas City homecoming

By Tommy Felts / October 19, 2016

More than 200 investors and entrepreneurs from around the globe will soon converge in Kansas City as part of one of the most highly-esteemed venture capital organizations in the world. Now in its 21st year, the Kauffman Fellows program will reunite top-tier investors that hail from five continents for a reunion summit on Oct. 24…

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Techstars’ John Fein: Seed investments key to Kansas City’s startup community

By Tommy Felts / January 29, 2016

I love Kansas City. I’ve lived here ten years and a big reason I love it is because of our startup community. I’m committed to building our startup community. It’s grown immensely in the past four years, but still has a ways to go. The purpose of this piece isn’t to propose specific measures for…

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Regional Roundup

Regional venture capital and why Valley firms moved to the Midwest

By Tommy Felts / December 17, 2015

In this week’s regional roundup, we have the dish on everything you should know from regional venture capital and cyber security to building a company that survives a dynamic tech market. For more on this series, read our introduction.  St. Louis Biz Journal: Big raises, new funds highlight year for venture capital in St. Louis Not only…

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