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  • Trellie’s on Wendy Williams today, plans more female-focused tech

    If you still need to buy gifts for the important women in your life, you may want to tune in to The Wendy Williams Show today. You’ll get a list of holiday must-haves, and more importantly, see Kansas City startup Trellie receive national exposure for its first product, a fashionable call notification device that clips…

  • KC tech advocates weigh in on Austin’s addition to the Fiber family

    Kansas City and Austin, Texas, became Google Fiber siblings Tuesday with the announcement that the internet giant would take its ultrafast connectivity south in the middle of next year. Just as was the case when Kansas City heard the news in 2011, the big-picture impact is foggy. Will the unique relationship with Austin build a…

  • Local entrepreneurs give inaugural Big Kansas City a lift

    Midwestern hospitality takes many forms, like a home-cooked meal or a “What can I get you?” Our inaugural Big Kansas City event last month was welcomed into the community by a group of entrepreneurs who wanted to get the local Big Series event off to a rousing start. Weeks before the event, Claude Aldridge (right),…

  • 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,…

  • With a fashion accessory, Trellie aims to keep women better connected

    According to Trellie, a new Kansas City, Kan. startup, more than 80 percent of women carry their phones in their purse and more than 50 percent of those women miss calls daily because they can’t hear their phone ring. What if, the startup’s founders thought, a purse could help with communication instead of hinder it?…