Tag: Crema

Larissa Uredi, No-Where Consultants; and Jenny Miller, KCSourceLink

GotDevKC helps small businesses break into tech talent silo, matching developers to needs

By Tommy Felts / October 16, 2020

Larissa Uredi and Jenny Miller are playing matchmaker.  Teaming up with KCSourceLink, UMKC Innovation Center, No-Where Consultants and the City of Kansas City Missouri, the duo worked with their teams to create a Kansas City business directory that pairs KC tech talent with startups and businesses in tech-need.  They call it: GotDevKC.  “We had identified…

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George Brooks, Crema Venture Lab

Grown in a lab: Kansas City digital product agency Crema sells plant-care app to Bloomscape 

By Tommy Felts / October 6, 2020

Sprouted from Venture Lab Fridays, Crema’s plant-care app Vera illustrated the possibilities of what setting aside work to grow creative and educational skills can bring, said George Brooks. The idea behind Venture Lab: use every other Friday at Crema as a time for the digital agency’s staff to temporarily step away from client work and…

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Ryan Maybee, Nathan Perry, and Andy Rieger, J. Rieger & Co.; Thalia Cherry, Cherry; Shea Geist and Geoffrey Geist, Shark Off; and Matt Baysinger and Ryan Henrich, Swell Spark

Startups pitching this week to earn finalists spots for ‘Mr K’ Small Biz of the Year award

By Tommy Felts / August 17, 2020

Innovation-led companies are going mainstream in Kansas City with an increasing number of product, experience and tech-based startups named as candidates for the top small business prize in the city: the Mr. K Award. Such well-known names to Startland News readers as Cherry, Chicken N Pickle, Crema, Plexpod, J. Rieger & Co., McLain’s Markets, Messenger…

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George Brooks, Crema startup

Value rich: Crema shifts gears in startup support approach as agency evolves

By Tommy Felts / July 13, 2019

Providing scaling companies with new pathways to learning is the latest objective for Crema, said George Brooks, detailing the digital agency’s constant evolution.  “We had this opportunity with the brands that we’ve been working with over the past few years to basically figure out, ‘Hey, how do we increase the value of your company?’” explained…

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Crema apprenticeship effort aims to decode a more inclusive talent pool

By Tommy Felts / January 29, 2019

Crema’s recent growth means more than an additional Crossroads office space for the startup, said Gabby Brotherton. It provides bandwidth for the firm to supplement Kansas City’s tech talent with a new apprenticeship program. “[Crema is] very much a company that values collaboration and innovation learning,” said Brotherton, marketing specialist at the software development firm.…

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