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...were part of the Kansas City Public Schools High School Girls Cybersecurity and Technology Summit and a citywide Girls in Tech initiative. “I was doing a haircut on a vice... Read more
...to help solve [civic] problems,” she said. City Hall, KCMO Kansas City’s version of the program will include an educational component for startups and city agencies, designed to help participants... Read more
...burgeoning new technologies.” Funding from the City of Overland Park will support entrepreneurs based in that city. The program previously established an ongoing relationship with the City of Olathe, under... Read more
Continuing a tradition of showcasing student entrepreneurs, Tuesday’s Pure Pitch Rally is expected to feature a pitch from FeedKC, a group run by students at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.... Read more
...sector in the Kansas City region. Missouri’s numbers followed a trend similar to Kansas City. The tech industry contributed $22 billion dollars — or about 8 percent — to Missouri’s... Read more
...Google Fiber provides many parts of Kansas City with internet speeds up to 1,000mbs and Kansas City is one of the world’s leading “smart cities” providing free public WiFi to... Read more
...already submitted a proposal to the city of KCMO in hopes of forging a partnership, the downtown Kansas City transplant explained. “I reached out to Rick Usher and kind of... Read more
...equity investment in PayIt earlier this year, according to a new ranking by M25. The mega-round for Kansas City’s leading GovTech startup kept the City of Fountains above water as... Read more
...Susie Kim and Dante Monaldo — Pluto Money — completes the second cohort of the Fountain City Fintech accelerator program. Fountain City Fintech 2019 cohort “The Midwest isn’t exactly a... Read more
Editor’s note: New in KC is an ongoing profile series that highlights newly relocated members of the Kansas City startup community, their reasons for a change of scenery, and what’... Read more