Tag: Integrated Roadways

Attention entrepreneurs: Deadline for LaunchKC grants approaching fast

By Tommy Felts / June 2, 2016

Entrepreneurs in Kansas City and around the world have about one month left to apply for LaunchKC, a grant competition that hopes to boost the area’s growing tech sector. LaunchKC will distribute $500,000 — via 10, $50,000 non-dilutive grants — to tech entrepreneurs from around the globe in exchange for their relocation to Kansas City.…

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Integrated Roadways smart pavement kicks ‘dumb roads’ to the curb

By Tommy Felts / May 5, 2016

The future of smart infrastructure appears to be budding in the City of Fountains. Kansas City-based Integrated Roadways recently secured a U.S. patent for its “smart pavement” that transforms humdrum roads into the network for the mobile Internet of Things. The smart pavement system features embedded components that provide connected cars wireless connectivity on roads,…

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LaunchKC, the $500K grant competition, opens applications

By Tommy Felts / April 1, 2016

The popular LaunchKC grants competition is back for more and is now accepting applications. LaunchKC — which attracted nearly 500 applicants in its inaugural 2015 competition — dishes out 10, $50,000 non-dilutive grants to tech entrepreneurs from around the globe. “We are searching for the best and brightest startups or early stage technology businesses to apply…

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Kansas City creativity sticks out among the weirdest in Austin

By Tommy Felts / March 17, 2016

At the tech and innovation conference South by Southwest Interactive, it’s as easy for companies to blend in as the flyers littering the streets of Austin. But amid the sea of commercial chaos — where hundreds of companies big and small fiercely fight for the most fleeting of interactions — Kansas City stood towering like the Liberty…

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The future’s around the corner at KC’s Compute Midwest

By Tommy Felts / July 13, 2015

Bold ideas with the promise to revolutionize tomorrow are heading to the City of Fountains for a growing technology conference. Now in its fourth year, Compute Midwest is set to explore technologies and ideas transforming the future, including space travel, self-driving cars and artificial intelligence. In addition to learning about the latest in technology, Compute…

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