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...also now are open.) Kansas City is the second smallest city in which the accelerator firm operates after Boulder. Check out scenes from Techstars Kansas City’s 2017 demo day here.... Read more
Would-be entrepreneurs who are returning from incarceration shouldn’t feel excluded from Kansas City’s startup ecosystem, Kyle J. Smith said. Be the Boss, a support group launching next month under Smith’s... Read more
...vary widely. But regardless of the explanations, Kansas City places significant value on the process of and support for starting up a business. While not unique to Kansas City, such... Read more
...and brought on board. I’m really excited we get to work with these really smart people.” Only about 14 months old, Bungii is leveraging Kansas City as a testbed to... Read more
Editor’s note: Startland News selected the top Kansas City firms to spotlight for its annual Startups to Watch list. The following is one of 2018’s companies. To view the full,... Read more
...to Amazon. Kansas City wasn’t among the finalists, which included such metros as Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Nashville, Toronto and Washington D.C. Check out... Read more
...be deploying a smart speaker — the Mark II — via a Kickstarter campaign Jan. 25. Among those joining in the seed round were the Missouri Technology Corporation, Kansas City-based... Read more
...spaces. “I fell in love with Kansas City,” she said. “I got married and became a U.S. citizen — one of the proudest moments of my life — and this... Read more
...A bulk of those 2017 sales are from smartphones, but the company is also growing thanks to new offerings of laptops, video games, gaming consoles and smart home tech, said... Read more
...of an understatement for Espinosa, founder of Freedom, a Kansas City-based company specializing in corporate, government and education industry furniture and design. She’s standing atop one of the 7,000-square-foot space’s... Read more