An oversubscribed first fund for Novel Growth Partners will help the Kansas City-based financing firm expand its tech investments in Chicago, Indianapolis and St. Louis. With more than $12 million... Read more
...where people convene?” Darcy Howe, KCRise Fund; and Jeff Jones, H&R Block The first piece of the puzzle was a $2 million investment in KCRise Fund, which Jones announced in... Read more
Startland News is continuing its “Fund Me, KC” series to highlight area entrepreneurs’ efforts to accelerate their businesses. This is an opportunity for entrepreneurs — like Rachel Cohen with her... Read more
...what investors want. ECJC manages both Pitch Perfect and the Fountain Innovation Fund. The investment from the Fund, a bi-state economic development initiative, is expected to help Lelex Prime shorten... Read more
...— have grown alongside Kansas City’s maturing innovation ecosystem, added Darcy Howe, co-chair of STARTLAND’s board and founder of KCRise Fund. “Kansas City, itself, has graduated from a startup to... Read more
...who recently pitched UMKC’s FeedKC Initiative to sharks at the 2019 Pure Pitch Rally, in 2018 and Chad Feather, associate at KCRise Fund, in 2017. Together, the Bloch School and... Read more
...passion for food into a business (Kiersten Firquain, Happy Food Co.) Noon — Women-owned restaurants: How do we fund them in KC? (Morgan Perry, Square One Small Business Services) 6... Read more
...a table in an exhibition hall or engaging in FUND Conference’s Fund-Founder Face-Off it is crucial to be able to communicate to investors what your business is solving, where that... Read more
...at KCRise Fund and he’s just a really great connector and kind of knows a lot about what’s happening in the startup scene,” Branding explained, noting such conversations as a... Read more
...the leadership of former executive director Jeff Shackelford, who now leads Fountain Innovation Fund and Mid-America Angels. Among the newly funded cohort companies: Pulmonaer Analytics — Sunti Wathanacharoen, founder —... Read more
