GEW Startup House

  • Bangladeshi team tackling counterfeit drugs spends two weeks in GEW house

    Bangladeshi team tackling counterfeit drugs spends two weeks in GEW house

    Last fall when Soumik Aswad applied for Global Entrepreneurship Week’s Startup Open, Kansas City was the last place he thought he’d end up. But Aswad and his brother, Souvik, both Bangladeshi citizens, placed second in the global competition with their fledgling startup idea Panacea, a company focused on eliminating the counterfeit pharmaceutical problem plaguing their…

  • Former Kauffman fellow opens KCSV house to international entrepreneurs

    Jonathan Ortmans wants to import international ideas into Kansas City and hopes Kansas City’s flavor makes it around the world. The president of Global Entrepreneurship Week recently bought a house in the Kansas City Startup Village to let international entrepreneurs absorb all the community’s happenings. First up in the GEW Startup House will be the…