Willow Lundgren

  • InvenQuery gets $650k from Dundee to enhance tech, customer outreach

    InvenQuery, a Prairie Village, Kan. startup that provides technology to help retailers of unique merchandise handle inventory, point-of-sale and e-commerce, today announced $650,000 in Series A funding from Dundee Venture Capital of Omaha. That investment, coupled with $450,000 in angel funding …

  • PlanetReuse awarded $250,000 grant from Chase and LivingSocial

    Kansas City startup PlanetReuse has been selected as one of 12 recipients of a $250,000 grant from the Chase and LivingSocial program Mission: Small Business. The company, which we last covered in June, was chosen from a pool of close to 70,000 applicants from across the U.S. During the application process, owners of businesses that…

  • InvenQuery powers the ‘Amazon.com for reclaimed building materials’

    PlanetReuse recently gained national media attention for its plan to encourage the reuse of building materials, but InvenQuery, the technology that powers it, is just beginning to grow. The two Kansas City, Mo. companies share the same leadership team of Nathan Benjamin and Willow Lundgren. Benjamin has been building PlanetReuse for four years, and the…