Tag: technology

Chamber showcase fills Union Station with real-life social networking for small biz owners

admin — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 20:02:44 +0000

Entrepreneur Dane Moss likes to do things a little over the top, he shared Wednesday from inside the Grand Hall at Union Station, noting that simply handing out T-shirts and koozies to event attendees simply doesn’t fit his style.

Teens tackle universal pain points: Junior Achievement competition pushes students to pitch biz ideas

admin — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 23:25:41 +0000

A new student innovation competition linked to Junior Achievement not only challenges Kansas City teens to develop business solutions for immediate real-world problems, said Will Bowler; fostering entrepreneurial thinking develops longer-term impacts.

Y’all Street Is Open for Business

admin — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 20:36:23 +0000

Novel Capital teams with Crux KC to offer growth-focused marketing to early-stage tech companies

admin — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 19:54:06 +0000

An exclusive partnership between two Kansas City-based innovators is expected to help remove a traditional financial hurdle to business growth, said Ethan Whitehill, president and chief strategy officer for the KC Chamber-lauded marketing firm Crux KC.

The collaboration between Crux and Overland Park-headquartered capital provider Novel Capital is expected to offer B2B SaaS and tech companies a path to non-dilutive flexible financing for essential marketing services.

Neighborhood smart cans help Kansas Citians save the planet from their kitchens

admin — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 20:19:20 +0000

Newly introduced composting technology is already turning new ground in Kansas City, Kristan Chamberlain said, with more solar-powered compost cans arriving later this spring across the metro’s urban landscape.

Why managing global teams requires navigating cultural nuances

admin — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:52:41 +0000

Editor’s note: The perspectives expressed in this commentary are the author’s alone.

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KC-area startup nets $20K Kansas pitch tournament win with game-changing edtech

admin — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 12:44:47 +0000

WICHITA — The team at VU Scholarships left it all on the stage Friday, walking away as champions in the Gamechangers & Champions bracket bash — a high-intensity pitch competition running parallel to the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament in Wichita.
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Six months after acquiring KC startup, BarGlance expands its AI-powered nightlife app across US

admin — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:35:03 +0000

Launching its latest innovation — BarGlance AI — in nightlife hotspots like Dallas, Las Vegas, Miami, and Kansas City is only part of the story for a South Carolina-based company that recently augmented its tech by integrating features from a Kansas City startup it acquired.
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KC-built Buzz acquired by Vegas tech company hoping to solve AI’s ‘last mile’ challenge in property management

admin — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 21:15:31 +0000

A leading property tech company is placing its bet on the Kansas City-built rent collections platform that Buzz brings to the table, announcing the AI-driven startup’s acquisition Tuesday by Las Vegas-based Pay Ready.
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Still in the game: 16 startups advance in Kansas pitch tournament; courting a new style of seed funding

admin — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 23:27:42 +0000

WICHITA — And then there were 16.

Monday’s pitch competition announcement served up sweet news for more than a dozen Kansas startups as local founders learned they’re advancing in the Gamechangers & Champions “Bracket Bash for Innovators and Angels” — a tournament-style event set to end with a $20,000 grand prize.
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Startup Weekend’s challenge: Build Missouri’s next billion-dollar idea (in three days)

admin — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 15:49:36 +0000

COLUMBIA, Missouri — Budding entrepreneurs are gathering next month for a three-day business pitch event that could earn them $45,000 in prizes plus a $150,000 investment opportunity for the winning company with billion-dollar potential, organizers said.
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Roster filled: 32 Kansas startups march into Round 2 of tourney-style pitch competition

admin — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 16:47:15 +0000

WICHITA — Nearly three dozen Sunflower State startups are vying for $20,000 in prize money — and courting the attention of investors — as they advance to the second round of an innovative, state-backed pitch competition set amid the excitement of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.
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Transportant picked a lane; now the Lenexa bus tech startup wants to conquer even more of the road

admin — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 18:00:05 +0000

From the driver’s seat, Martin Staples is steering Lenexa-based Transportant toward rapid growth with its real-time, tech-driven approach, he said, bringing greater safety, communication, and efficiency to school buses and expanding the startup’s reach beyond its Midwest home region.
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Daupler closes $15M Series B to boost real-time responses to energy, water emergencies

admin — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 20:08:13 +0000

A Kansas City company’s latest funding round will help the startup manage critical infrastructure provided by utilities and municipalities — driving its growth within the electric utility market and accelerating international expansion into utilities in the United Kingdom and European Union.
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URL to IRL insights: KC analytics startup downloads $1.2M pre-seed round powered by coalition of VCs

admin — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 18:00:10 +0000

The region’s investment community is rallying around an Overland Park tech startup that unlocks insights from videos online and beyond — and its trio of Kansas City founders is grateful to see local talent earning capital that more easily flows to coastal innovators.
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