Tag: Startup Road Trip

Topeka approves $5.9M for innovation campus, locking in key funding for animal health, ag hub

By Tommy Felts / May 14, 2021

Startland News’ Startup Road Trip series explores innovative and uncommon ideas finding success in rural America and Midwestern startup hubs outside the Kansas City metro. This series is possible thanks to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which leads a collaborative, nationwide effort to identify and remove large and small barriers to new business creation. Plans…

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Obe, Inc., Plug and Play Topeka

New accelerator aims to capitalize on pet health, agtech hub with international cohort

By Tommy Felts / April 7, 2021

Startland News’ Startup Road Trip series explores innovative and uncommon ideas finding success in rural America and Midwestern startup hubs outside the Kansas City metro. This series is possible thanks to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which leads a collaborative, nationwide effort to identify and remove large and small barriers to new business creation. TOPEKA…

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Jake Seaton, Column

Paperboy to tech founder: How Jake Seaton returned to Kansas to help save the family business (and local news)

By Tommy Felts / March 19, 2021

Startland News’ Startup Road Trip series explores innovative and uncommon ideas finding success in rural America and Midwestern startup hubs outside the Kansas City metro. This series is possible thanks to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which leads a collaborative, nationwide effort to identify and remove large and small barriers to new business creation. MANHATTAN,…

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Startup Road Trip: Transplants to Kansas see future of prosthetics in eco-friendly textile hemp

By Tommy Felts / January 23, 2021

Startland News’ Startup Road Trip series explores innovative and uncommon ideas finding success in rural America and Midwestern startup hubs outside the Kansas City metro. This series is possible thanks to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which leads a collaborative, nationwide effort to identify and remove large and small barriers to new business creation. WICHITA…

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Greenfield Robotics

Weed-destroying bots: Kansas startup scales chemical-free farming with fleet of four-wheeled doers

By Tommy Felts / July 25, 2020

Startland News’ Startup Road Trip series explores innovative and uncommon ideas finding success in rural America and Midwestern startup hubs outside the Kansas City metro. This series is possible thanks to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which leads a collaborative, nationwide effort to identify and remove large and small barriers to new business creation. CHENEY,…

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