Tag: Kansas Angel Investor Tax Credits

Kansas Angel Investor Tax Credits

Infographic: Impact of the Kansas Angel Investor Tax Credits

By Tommy Felts / March 8, 2016

Facing a massive budgetary crisis, the State of Kansas may be placing the Kansas Angel Investor Tax Credit program on the chopping block. The popular program — tapped by more than 300 startups in its 11 years — has had a tremendous impact on the area startup community but is scheduled to sunset after 2016. Since…

Read More >

Key legislator optimistic in the future of Kansas’ angel tax credits

By Tommy Felts / February 5, 2016

A Kansas lawmaker overseeing discussion on the future of the state’s angel investor tax credits is confident the program will be made a budgetary priority by his peers in legislature. Rep. Marvin Kleeb, R-Overland Park, said that he and fellow members of the Kansas Committee on Taxation listened to thorough testimony Wednesday during a hearing…

Read More >

Mental health startup Start Talking goes mobile, scores $150K in tax credits

By Tommy Felts / June 30, 2015

Depression affects about one out of every 10 Americans, including at one time Start Talking founder Mark Nolte. While a rough time in his life, Nolte’s struggle with depression in 2010 eventually led him to launch a venture that’s more easily connecting people with the help they need. Lenexa-based Start Talking offers patients a psychotherapy…

Read More >

Kansas budget woes render uncertainty for angel tax credits

By Tommy Felts / May 2, 2015

As state budgetary concerns loom in the background, early-stage firms in Kansas are hoping a bill to extend the Sunflower State’s Angel Investor Tax Credit program will become a priority for legislators. Scheduled to sunset after the 2016 fiscal year, the program annually allocates $6 million in credits to entice investments in early-stage, growth-oriented companies…

Read More >
[adinserter block="4"]