Tag: Eric Garretson

Megan Darnell and Zach Anderson Pettet, Fountain City Fintech 2019 demo day, nbkc bank

nbkc discontinues Fountain City Fintech as accelerator leader leaves for San Fran startup

By Tommy Felts / March 19, 2020

A trendsetter in the fintech space, nbkc bank confirmed Wednesday it was discontinuing its popular Fountain City Fintech accelerator after two cohorts. The news follows the departure of the accelerator’s leader, who has joined a San Francisco startup eying Kansas City for its next hiring hub. “This is the first time in my life that…

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Big Data Summit returning to Techweek KC; organizer lauds refreshed content for 2018

By Tommy Felts / September 27, 2018

Enhanced leadership, along with the Big Data Summit Track, is bringing the “tech” back to Techweek KC, said Don Peterson. The Big Data Summit, Kansas City’s annual convergence of data, technology and analytics, founded by Peterson and the KC Big Data Group in 2012, had stopped working with Techweek KC after the 2016 event, he…

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