Tag: Dairy Farmers of America

Sprint Corporate Accelerator Program

Sprint VP: Corporate engagement helps drive KC startup ecosystem, next-generations of innovation

By Tommy Felts / January 16, 2020

Editor’s note: The opinions expressed in this commentary are the author’s alone. Bryan Fries is vice president of 5G marketing strategy and global services for Sprint. From job creation and economic growth to the increase in competition and innovation, Kansas City-area startups and entrepreneurs play a vital role within the ecosystem of our community.  And…

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Sprint Corporate Accelerator Program

Sprint, DFA open applications for parallel programs within 2020 Corporate Accelerator

By Tommy Felts / September 19, 2019

When one of Kansas City’s most popular corporate accelerators returns in the spring, its cohort will be more meaningfully defined and tailored to its twin partner industries — 5G mobile technology and agtech/dairy food products, said Ari DeGrote. “We are looking at these two programs as being separate, but parallel — this will really help…

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Fountain City Fintech 2019 cohort

Party for the payoff: Fountain City Fintech sets Oct. 15 demo day, KC celebration

By Tommy Felts / September 18, 2019

Kansas City’s ongoing fintech momentum deserves more than a nod from analysts and trend watchers, said Zach Pettet, announcing plans for an Oct. 15 demo day that’s already taking shape as a community celebration. “We need an excuse to rally together and celebrate everything that’s happened over the past few months — especially in the…

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Sprint Accelerator Demo Day

Photos: Sprint Accelerator leaders salute former managing director at demo day

By Tommy Felts / June 27, 2019

Gratitude powered down the sixth cohort of the Sprint and Dairy Farmers of America-backed Corporate Accelerator Thursday. “I do have one more person that I need to acknowledge and that person is Doug Dresslear,” Tina Peterson, manager of the Sprint Accelerator, told a packed crowd at the National World War 1 museum’s J.C. Nichols Auditorium. …

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Josh Green, Brooklyn Buttery, Sprint Accelerator

Butter to eSports: Sprint Accelerator draws new class of startups from coasts to Canada

By Tommy Felts / April 1, 2019

Josh Green is used to navigating the streets of Brooklyn, hand delivering artisanal butters, chilled in the back of a pickup, he recalled. As founder of Brooklyn Buttery — which crafted a line of flavor-packed, sustainably sourced compound butters designed to bring a high end restaurant experience to home cooks — the entrepreneur’s growth has now…

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