Venues Made Simple vows to marry transparency with streamlined wedding planning tech

Jeff and Jessie Pavalone didn’t intend to plan their wedding during a pandemic.  The Kansas City couple is introducing technology to the wedding industry with their new Airbnb-style venue management system, meant to simplify wedding planning for both couples and event spaces. Click here to explore their Digital Sandbox KC-backed startup, Venues Made Simple. The…

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Afraid of needles? This Kansas startup just raised $1M to inject its no-show solution into testing

A fresh funding injection for an Overland Park-based medical device company is expected to help the startup’s products clear federal regulatory hurdles, as well as advance and expand its research and development efforts. Love Lifesciences is on a mission to revolutionize the patient injection experience to make medications both easier and safer to use, said…

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Digital Sandbox alum earns new round of funding — this time for sports tech; Meet the latest batch of just-funded startups 

From making the college admissions process easier for students to summarizing books and podcasts using artificial intelligence, the latest startups to join Digital Sandbox KC are a great example of the creativity of this region’s entrepreneurs, said Jill Meyer. The four newly selected companies are expected to receive up to $20,000 in project funding and…

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LaunchKC winner shows value with $900K pre-seed round, earns critical local support

Kansas City’s DataAppraisal has secured $900,000 in pre-seed funding for its AI-powered proprietary software that helps healthcare organizations unlock the monetary value of their enterprise data, said Tam Tran. And the tech startup’s recent developments come after a year of earning local resources and support, its co-founder and CEO said. DataAppraisal’s unique solution contains two…

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