Startups Stories
Just funded: Digital Health KC taps 8 KC startups for new ‘Accelerate’ project grants
A $332,750 tranche of newly announced project-based funding is designed to propel promising digital health companies toward their next critical milestones, said Dick Flanigan, emphasizing pathways from technology advancements to product validation.
Home buyers, sellers should keep more of their money, KC-built proptech startup says
“We’re not anti-agent,” said founder Phillip Allen, who led the H&R Block team that developed Rapid Refund, the first electronic tax filing system. “We’re anti-the abusive fees that go along with it.”
Full-circle victory for UMKC grad who retook the stage to win RVCC with her startup
Winning the top prize for community startups at the Regnier Venture Creation Challenge was a transformational way to cap Antoinette Redmond’s UMKC experience, the Neuru founder said Friday, after earning $20,000 of the record $180,000 awarded to student and community entrepreneurs.
KC allergist raises $200K to launch exposure-building immunity droplets for infants
A Kansas City physician-turned-founder has secured $200,000 in pre-launch funding to scale a solution that boosts healthy immune development in infants through early childhood with consistent exposure to food proteins.
VA partners with Healium to launch nation’s largest in-home VR mental health initiative for veterans
A Missouri-built digital health platform is working with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to deploy more than 700 in-home virtual reality (VR) mental wellness kits.
