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Posts Tagged ‘Sixty8 Capital’

Investor returns to Kansas City with a message for his fellow VCs: It’s time to get your hands dirty 

By Tommy Felts | August 15, 2023

Traveling across the United States to listen and learn from various entrepreneurial ecosystems gave Nassir Criss the knowledge to be a better venture capitalist, he said. After nearly a year — and visiting more than a dozen cities — Criss has returned to Kansas City to share and apply what he experienced.  “I realized that…

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New $2.2M funding round powers WorkTorch career platform expansion into KCK, KCMO

By Tommy Felts | November 8, 2022

Less than a year after sisters Deborah Gladney and Angela Muhwezi-Hall became the first Black women in Kansas to raise $1 million in seed funding for their startup, their rebranded Wichita company announced another $2.2 million investment for its rapidly scaling service industry career platform. The new influx of funding — led by Wichita-based Tenzing Capital…

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He wants to create 100 millionaires before he dies (but first Nassir Criss says he’ll have to leave KC)

By Tommy Felts | July 5, 2022

Nassir Criss has been a risk-taker for as long as he can remember, he shared.  “When you start at the bottom, the only place you can go is up — so I’ve never been afraid to speak my mind or walk up to someone who I think may be interesting and say hello. I haven’t…

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