...FEWDM was a 2016 LaunchKC winner and a 2017 Digital Sandbox KC grant recipient, finding rapid success with consumers. That quick growth, however, proved to be a double-edged sword, Saunders... Read more
...support, said Drew Solomon, chair of LaunchKC. “This serves as a great vote of confidence in LaunchKC and the entrepreneurial community in Kansas City,” said Solomon, Economic Development Corporation of... Read more
...month in the annual LaunchKC competition, MusicSpoke isn’t yet at the level Rosenblatt and Kurt Knecht imagined when they co-founded the composer publishing company in 2014. And that’s OK, Rosenblatt... Read more
...Kansas City-based Sprint Accelerator and is a LaunchKC grant recipient. The firm is also participating in the Silicon Valley-based incubator 500 Startups’ 2017 cohort. Mycroft was also named a Startland... Read more
...which was selected as a finalist for the LaunchKC grant competition — developed a handheld device for those with dyslexia called the Read ‘n Style pen. The tool scans text... Read more
...get the support from LaunchKC and the community is wonderful and meant so much to us.” Managed by the Economic Development Council of Kansas City, LaunchKC awarded nine non-dilutive grants... Read more
...companies — HerdDogg and TradeLanes — nabbed a $50,000 LaunchKC grant. These wins speak to the success of the program, Dresslaer said. Dresslaer expects to further immerse future Accelerator participants... Read more
After evaluating a lineup of 19 tech startups from across the country, judges awarded eight companies each a $50,000 LaunchKC grant — and one received a grand prize of $100,000.... Read more
...$1.8 million in Kansas City-area startup-support organizations, like LaunchKC and Digital Sandbox KC, as well as individual startups (some of which wouldn’t be in business without the state funds). “The... Read more
...$75,000 in IDEA funds from MTC, followed by another $300,000. (In between rounds, PopBookings won a $50,000 grant in the inaugural 2015 LaunchKC competition, which itself is supported by MTC... Read more