WATCH: Kansas City Startups to Watch in 2022

January 20, 2022  |  Austin Barnes

 

[divide]

[divide]

This broadcast features Startland News reporters in conversation with the founders who lead the Startups to Watch companies showcased in the publication’s 10 Kansas City Startups to Watch in 2022 list and explore ways in which they’re disrupting industries in Kansas City and beyond.

Use #KCSTW22 to interact with other viewers on social media.

Click here to download the official event program.

Want to know who made the list? Click here for full Startups to Watch coverage.

Kansas City Startups to Watch in 2022 is presented in partnership with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and supporting sponsors at Spark Kansas CityHusch BlackwellKC BizCare, and Evergy Ventures.

 

 

 

Tagged
Featured Business
    Featured Founder
      [adinserter block="4"]

      2022 Startups to Watch

        stats here

        Related Posts on Startland News

        KC startups graduate K-State accelerator, earning equity-free cash, greater conviction

        By Tommy Felts | September 4, 2025

        A trio of Kansas City-built ventures — from sports apparel and mental health solutions for young athletes to tech that uses autonomous drones and 3D vision AI — were among the Kansas businesses earning funding through an eight-week accelerator at Kansas State University. The Center for Entrepreneurship Accelerator program at K-State — which provides participants…

        LPOXY initiates $28M Series A financing with 5 Horizons Ventures to fund pivotal trial 

        By Tommy Felts | September 4, 2025

        PLATTE CITY, Mo. — Funding to secure the upcoming trial of a Missouri biopharmaceutical company’s solution for preventing a deadly gut infection could prove critical in the fight against a condition that claims 80 U.S. lives daily, said Dr. Larry Sutton. LPOXY Therapeutics, which is developing a novel non-antibiotic therapy to prevent Clostridioides difficile infections…

        When farmers get paid faster, everyone eats; HitchPin brings fintech to ag, good to humanity, founder says

        By Tommy Felts | September 3, 2025

        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.  [divide] The fintech revolution typically overlooks agriculture, Trevor McKeeman said, noting that any move to bring tools — like a payment platform within a digital marketplace — definitely breaks ground…

        Chocolate maker (and coffee roaster) earns bean-to-bar accolades from his Grandview base

        By Tommy Felts | September 3, 2025

        Kansas City has plenty of confectioners, but it’s rare to find true bean-to-bar work, Mike King said. That distinction makes Encore Coffee and Chocolate’s process both resourceful and extraordinary. “There’s only a few of us that are making our own chocolate,” said King, founder of Grandview-built Encore Coffee and Chocolate. “I consider myself a chocolate…