...LaunchKC. PlaBook uses artificial intelligence, natural language processing, speech recognition, and gamification to help children learn how to read. Click here to explore PlaBook’s reading and mathematics tech. When creating... Read more
...an unspecified grant to LaunchKC to help relaunch its popular Kansas City-based grants competition. Applications for startup founders are open now. Click here to apply for the new LaunchKC grants... Read more
...Jacqueline Erickson Russell, Social Impact Advising Group, talk in May during a launch event for the LaunchKC Social Venture Studio; photo by Estuardo Garcia Although she had been introduced to... Read more
...investment opportunities. 2018 LaunchKC winners The program also helps fund efforts like LaunchKC’s popular grants competition, which is set to return to Kansas City this fall for the first time... Read more
After a four-year hiatus, LaunchKC is officially set to bring back its signature grants competition. Early-stage tech companies will have the opportunity to each win $50,000 in non-dilutive grants, plus... Read more
A key funder of initiatives like Digital Sandbox KC and LaunchKC could see its own fortunes rise if Missouri Gov. Mike Parson signs a budget that includes $31 million to... Read more
Dr. Shelley Cooper held back tears during a nearly four-hour introductory session to the new LaunchKC Social Venture Studio earlier this spring, she said. She’d already found her calling with... Read more
...Missouri Technology Corporation, the agency announced Tuesday. LaunchKC was named one of seven organizations to together receive more than $1 million in grant funding to support startups and entrepreneurship statewide... Read more
...learn to read. [/pullquote] PlaBook — a veteran of Techstars Kansas City, Digital Sandbox KC, and LaunchKC, as well as a newly announced member of the Pipeline Entrepreneurs fellowship —... Read more
...strengthen its mentorship ecosystem. Forty-nine percent of LaunchKC participant companies are minority or woman-owned businesses and $236 million in follow-on funding has gone to support these companies, according to LaunchKC.... Read more