Tag: Fountain City Fintech

EDCKC selects 2019 Cornerstone Awards finalists; May celebration to honor Emanuel Cleaver

By Tommy Felts / March 4, 2019

Innovators and leaders in new construction, redevelopment, capital investments, job creation and expansion projects in Kansas City, Missouri, are set to be honored in late May at the 2019 Cornerstone Awards. The Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City, Missouri, (EDCKC) announced 22 finalists for the honors today. “The Cornerstone Awards are a chance to take…

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Jessie Jacob, CoreBuild, The Culture Lab

Jessie Jacob: Investing in founders’ mental strength for scale

By Tommy Felts / January 11, 2019

Editor’s note: The opinions expressed in this commentary about mental health and workplace culture are the author’s alone. We hear plenty of talk about the importance of mental health, as well as investing in culture for founders, but not a whole lot about people doing something about it. Perhaps they don’t know how or aren’t…

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Parker Graham, Destiny Wealth

Destiny Wealth moving HQ to KC; former football player owes debt of inspiration to mother

By Tommy Felts / December 15, 2018

Grit and the gridiron might have helped shape Parker Graham’s business acumen, but it’s the influence of his coach in the game of life who inspired Destiny Wealth — his fintech startup that soon will move to Kansas City. “My Mom stretched herself so thin and sometimes it was hard to put food on the…

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Jim Malle, Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City, LaunchKC

LaunchKC pivoting from annual grants contest to supporting industry verticals, accelerators

By Tommy Felts / December 14, 2018

LaunchKC is expected to focus on specific business verticals in 2019 — an effort to bring companies to Kansas City that can fill industry gaps, said Jim Malle. A revamped version of the annual grants competition eventually would grow those verticals into individual accelerator programs, said Malle, business development officer at the Economic Development Corporation…

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Culture Lab to Fountain City Fintech startups: Before you hire, define your culture

By Tommy Felts / December 11, 2018

Bringing Culture Lab programming to the Fountain City Fintech accelerator’s inaugural cohort is part of a deeper effort to call attention to workplace culture in Kansas City, said Frank Keck. “We’ve been able to help each of these six cohort companies really define who they are, why are they doing what they’re doing, and help…

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