Tag: InvestMidwest Venture Capital Forum

Sarah Hill, Healium, StoryUp

How ‘compassion fatigue’ led a TV journalist to bring Healium VR therapy to market

By Tommy Felts / April 2, 2019

Distress calls poured over the newsroom scanner near Sarah Hill’s desk, day in and day out for 20 years. Each one seemingly growing darker than the last, she recalled. “I was a television journalist. … You have to cover a lot of trauma and a lot of really bad stuff,” said Hill, founder of Healium…

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Tim Barton, Edison Spaces, InvestMidwest

Freightquote, Edison Factory founder-turned-investor touts ‘work ethic worth investing in’

By Tommy Felts / March 21, 2019

Raise and raise relentlessly. Because in business, the sun won’t shine every day, Tim Barton told a room filled Wednesday morning with entrepreneurs and investors eagerly seeking support and insight at the 20th InvestMidwest Venture Capital Forum. The former CEO of Freightquote, who saw a $365 million exit for the company in 2014 before launching…

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Only five of 40 KC startups make the cut for InvestMidwest VC pitch forum

By Tommy Felts / February 20, 2019

InvestMidwest has whittled down the applicants for next month’s venture capital forum, announcing five Kansas City area companies will take the stage at the premier pitch event. Thirty-six fast-growing startups overall — representing 15 Midwest, East Coast and Southern states — are expected to present to venture capitalists, corporate investors, private investors and other key…

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InvestMidwest Venture Capital Forum

Nearly 30 percent of InvestMidwest applicants from Kansas City

By Tommy Felts / February 8, 2019

Young Kansas City companies are hungry for investor dollars and connections — as evidenced by dozens of metro startups and businesses applying for next month’s InvestMidwest Venture Capital Forum. Of the more than 140 applications from entrepreneurs in 19 states seeking to pitch their companies, 18 hail from Kansas City, Missouri, and 10 call Overland Park…

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