...equity funding), Illinois (Avant, $655 million), and Georgia (Kabbage, $490 million); and The VC-backed startup with the least funding on the list is Oklahoma’s SendaRide with $1.74 million in funding.... Read more
...saw continued support from KCRise Fund, the company said, in addition to another seven existing investors that included: Origin Ventures, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed... Read more
...by the Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City and the Downtown Council of Kansas City — will be able to fund more companies and offer startups better support, as part... Read more
In 2018, 50 percent of the top venture capital-funded companies in Kansas City got their start with early-stage investment programs that emerged after 2012, according to We Create KC 2019,... Read more
...the great diversity of applicants we see at Digital Sandbox KC.” The trio of startups receiving program funding includes: Stenovate, Kansas City — a technology solution modernizing the court reporter’s... Read more
...priority in the city’s budget. Over a $100 million dollars have been allocated where we’ve guaranteed debt from the city’s general fund for spenders in real estate development. We have... Read more
...has championed the three-eighth-cent, 10-year tax proposal that would fund early childhood education across the city. Click here to read the Pre-K for KC plan. Does Mayor James have a... Read more
...is the mayor’s April 2 ballot initiative. An effort that advocates say would fund high-quality Pre-K for all KCMO children, the three-eighths cent economic development sales tax is expected to... Read more
...is as easy as sending a text — because it is sending a text,” he added. Getting connected with local venture fund Target Hill Capital in December 2017 provided the... Read more
...said. Additional hiring might follow as the firm transitions into its second fund — one expected to be at least twice as large as the previous $17.7 million fund, he... Read more