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  • FitBark’s student team takes top prize at second annual MECA Challenge

    FitBark’s student team takes top prize at second annual MECA Challenge

    KANSAS CITY—Students partnered with local Kansas City startup FitBark took home top prize Oct. 5 at the second annual MECA Challenge…

  • FitBark announced as one of 5 U.S. Get in the Ring finalists

    FitBark announced as one of 5 U.S. Get in the Ring finalists

    KANSAS CITY— FitBark, a KC startup creating an activity monitor for dogs, is one of five finalists for the annual Get in the Ring competition, the Kauffman Foundation announced Tuesday.

  • FitBark presents at Animal Health Forum, on the lookout for KC talent

    FitBark presents at Animal Health Forum, on the lookout for KC talent

    KANSAS CITY—Since their Sprint Accelerator demo day, it seems like animal health startup FitBark has been barking up the right trees. In fact, last week the startup’s founder Davide Rossi presented at the Kansas City Area Development Council’s Animal Health Investment Forum, an annual gathering of companies in the animal health industry to explore new…

  • You heard right: FitBark is a Fitbit, but for your canine companion

    “The biggest surprise was really Kansas City,” Fitbark’s founder Davide Rossi told SPN of the experience. “In terms of being a place not only for us to be strategically, but also that it’s just a beautiful place. I continue to say that when I came here from NYC, everybody was just so nice, like, suspiciously…

  • If you missed Sprint Accelerator’s demo day, they put on quite the show

    The energy inside the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts was palpable Thursday as about 1,700 people poured into the space. The tittering of the crowd created a dull roar, muffled only by the many levels of the Center’s atrium, still audible from inside the venue’s plush auditorium. The crowd gathered not for a performance…

  • Team Prairie Portrait: FitBark of the Mobile Health Accelerator

    For the 10 days leading up to the Sprint Mobile Health Accelerator powered by Techstars Demo Day we’ll be getting insight from the 10 presenting teams. See what they’ve been up to at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, June 10, at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts by registering for free here.