Ron LeMay

  • FarmLink closes $40M Series B round led by OpenAir Equity Partners

    FarmLink closes $40M Series B round led by OpenAir Equity Partners

    On Wednesday KansasCity-based company FarmLink announced a $40 million Series B round of equity funding led by OpenAir Equity Partners. The funding will help the company expand its TrueHarvest services to farmers in several other states.

  • Trellie taps former Sprint exec, KC investors for $500k financing round

    Less than a week after Trellie surpassed its $30,000 Kickstarter goal, the Kansas City startup’s co-founder Claude Aldridge told Silicon Prairie News his company closed a $500,000 financing round led by former Sprint president and COO Ron LeMay* and tech investor Lance LeMay. The father-son duo were part of an “eclectic group” of 10 investors,…

  • Company with KC ties raises $35M to ramp up e-recycling efforts

    A Dallas-area company with a Kansas City co-founder and Kansas City funding just got big backing from a Silicon Valley venture capital firm for its solution to the problem of e-waste. The company, eRecycling …