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Kansas City Startup Village lifts the entrepreneurial scene and bridges a divide
The Heartland Innovation Road Trip wrapped up it’s tour on Friday with a stop in Kansas City to discuss the city’s efforts to lift the startup and entrepreneurial profile of the city. Five or six years ago, the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce launched The Big Five initiative aimed at taking 500 community ideas…
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Why you don’t want your city to become Silicon Valley
For the last few years I’ve heard and read that St. Louis just might be the next Silicon Valley. I haven’t just heard that about St. Louis. I’ve heard the same thing about Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Denver, Houston, Columbus, and just about every decent-sized city in America. Of course, Silicon Valley has a lot going…
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Global Entrepreneurship Week Kansas City celebrates 10 years of freeing ideas
Kansas City’s 10th annual Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW) will bring over 150 events to the city between November 13-19th. This year’s GEWKC will be the largest ever. “Global Entrepreneurship Week inspires the makers, the doers and the dreamers and connects them to our local business community,” said Nathan Kurtz, senior program officer in entrepreneurship at…
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Invest Nebraska’s Brock Smith makes move to Kansas City’s GXP Investments
Since Brock Smith joined Invest Nebraska in June 2015, the company has invested $9.2M in 40 Nebraska-based high-growth startups, as well as funded 18 companies as part of the NMotion accelerator. Those companies have raised an additional $76.3M, an amount that increases every quarter as companies such as Quantified Ag, Virtual Incision, Blue Prairie Brands,…
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State of Our City event will challenge young professionals to take actionable results
Next month’s Greater Omaha Chamber Young Professionals’ State of Our City event will bring an open dialogue on building a strong city to Omaha’s impassioned, young professionals. State of Our City is extending conversations that began at this year’s YP Summit and opening a new discussion on what Omaha should look like, focus on and…
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Kansas City Startup launches grass-fed beef delivery services
Kansas City-based River Watch Beef recently announced an expansion of their regional delivery service to include all 48 contiguous states. Chris Kovac, founder of the food startup, said that beef and commodity markets can be hard to anticipate so to solve that problem, the company takes their product directly to consumers. “Our goal at River…
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Coalition forms to develop Kansas City-St. Louis Hyperloop route
Anyone who tells you Kansas City baseball is preferable to what you’ll experience at Busch Stadium in St. Louis is profoundly misguided, or a biased lifelong resident of Kansas City. Anyone who tells you the BBQ you’ll find in St. Louis is preferable to what you can get at Arthur Bryant’s in Kansas City is…
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Kansas City’s Red Nova Labs opens new engineering office in Denver
Kansas City-based technology company Red Nova Labs (RNL) has expanded their engineering team to include a second office in Denver. “Denver will be a great place to find more talented developers as we ramp up our tech hiring over the next year or so,” said Adam England, the company’s chief technology officer and veteran of…
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Rubrik and University of Kansas to launch Rubrik Center for Excellence
Rubrik, a Cloud Data Management Company headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., is partnering with Lawrence’s Bioscience & Technology Business Center (BTBC) at the University of Kansas to launch a new center that will create highly-skilled technology jobs in Kansas. “I’m excited that I can tell my customers that a lot of their calls are not…
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Techstars Kansas City investing in 10 companies through summer accelerator
Techstars doesn’t just build businesses, they build startup ecosystems around the world. As one of Techstars’ 26 worldwide cohort programs, Techstars Kansas City is looking for 10 companies to accept into their accelerator program this summer. The Kansas City program is different from the other 25 Techstar programs taking place in 2017. Since it’s a…