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  • Athlete Network announces collaborative partnership with three college athletic departments

    Athlete Network announces collaborative partnership with three college athletic departments

    Kansas City-based Athlete Network, a provider of athlete services technology for intercollegiate, professional and Olympic athletics, recently announced a collaborative partnership with Kansas State University, Arkansas State University, and Lindenwood University Athletic Departments. Leaders from each athletic department joined Athlete Network to develop the game-changing software, with the goal of enhancing the student-athlete experience and…

  • KC STEM Alliance works to close Missouri’s tech talent pipeline gap

    KC STEM Alliance works to close Missouri’s tech talent pipeline gap

    According to a report from the Missouri Chamber of Commerce, by 2030, Missouri will face a shortage of 200,000 qualified workers. The report outlines a number of additional findings that point back to deficits within the state’s STEM talent pipelines. The KC STEM Alliance is helping to help those gaps by exposing students from all…

  • HipHire is making connections for part-time job seekers

    HipHire is making connections for part-time job seekers

    What would happen if the concept behind dating and matching services was applied to job searches, and employee turnover could be reduced through better pairings? HR expert Brian Kearns asked that same question and within two years, found himself at the helm of HipHire, an internet platform for part-time job seekers. Before founding HipHire, Kearns…

  • Kauffman honoree examines impact of accelerators on an ecosystem

    Kauffman honoree examines impact of accelerators on an ecosystem

    To help foster connection and collaboration across the Silicon Prairie, SPN will be cross-syndicating news stories from other cities and startup communities. This article was originally published on Startland News. By: Meghan LeVota, reporter Over the years, Kansas City has found itself home to several business accelerator programs. From BetaBlox to the Sprint Accelerator, these…

  • Ziyak knows where the fun is

    Ziyak knows where the fun is

    There’s nothing worse than missing a bacon festival. Ziyak President and cofounder, Randy Grommet learned that the hard way. His loss ended up being everyone else’s gain when a missed day of bacon spurred the idea for Ziyak, a mobile app for Android and iOS that shows users what is happening around their city. Ziyak…

  • With investors clamoring for more, Blooom raises $9.15 million

    With investors clamoring for more, Blooom raises $9.15 million

    To help foster connection and collaboration across the Silicon Prairie, SPN will be cross-syndicating news stories from other cities and startup communities. This article was originally published on Startland News. By Bobby Burch One of the area’s top startups, finance tech firm Blooom has landed a significant round of financing to accelerate its online tool…

  • Victor Hwang shares his thoughts on The Innovators, Entrepreneurship

    Victor Hwang shares his thoughts on The Innovators, Entrepreneurship

    Enter your email below to watch the interview Victor Hwang, the Vice President of Entrepreneurship at The Kauffman Foundation, attended his first ever Pipeline Entrepreneur Innovators Awards as a judge. He said he was impressed with what he saw. “There were some really great companies there and a lot of energy and entrepreneurial passion and…

  • Pipeline celebrates 10 years of innovation

    Pipeline celebrates 10 years of innovation

    Over 600 people from the regional startup community gathered on January 26th at Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland in Kansas City to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Pipeline Entrepreneurs, the region’s most successful organization of high-growth entrepreneurs. “The past ten years have been much running a high growth start up – we’ve had ups,…

  • Our 10 favorite Missouri startup stories of 2016

    Our 10 favorite Missouri startup stories of 2016

    Silicon Prairie News covers the tech startup scene across Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri. Here are our most popular stories from Missouri this year: 1. How Ulytic solves urban traffic problems in real time (Columbia) The urban traffic analytics startup from Columbia, Missouri, joined the Straight Shot accelerator in Omaha, Nebraska, this summer. 2. QA with Alicia…

  • Zinnia expands delivery into Kansas City

    Zinnia expands delivery into Kansas City

    Zinnia’s affordable online flowers are now available in Kansas City starting today. Zinnia, an Omaha-based ecommerce site for high quality affordable bouquets, was in the middle of the Straight Shot accelerator when they received the call from Kansas City. It was from a new florist in town, Kansas City Flower Company, who had plans to open…