...entrepreneurial capacity and continue to make direct investments into the state’s most promising early-stage high-growth potential companies.” MTC has a long history funding local startups. Kansas City-based IDEA Fund portfolio... Read more
...Fund, Wichita VC Back2KC-branded Yardballs produced by Kansas City-based Sandlot Goods Darcy Howe, Ed Frindt, and Liam Reilly, KCRise Fund III Back2KC was started by KCRise Fund founder and managing... Read more
...and economical solutions. The tool allows users to electronically supervise the criminal justice population previously omitted from any electronic monitoring platform. Bart Cooper, eHawk FROM THE ARCHIVES: Why KCRise Fund... Read more
...African-American and woman-owned nonprofit, private career and technical school, she noted — received $20,000 from the Black Community Fund — whose mission is to provide support and leadership to enhance... Read more
...portfolio companies honored as Startland News’ Kansas City Startups to Watch in 2023: Liam Reilly, KCRise Fund; Nick Smith, Saile, Emily Brown, Free From Market, Darcy Howe, KCRise Fund; Charles... Read more
...for Grit Road Partners — a Nebraska-based venture fund — is investing in ag tech companies that are solving Midwest producer problems, said Mike Jung, noting no shortage of ideas... Read more
COLUMBIA, Missouri — The latest tranche of funding for EquipmentShare puts mid-Missouri’s most earth-moving scaleup close to a half-billion dollars in funding announced over the past six months. EquipmentShare, a... Read more
...recent wins,” Gutwein said. “That’s what is keeping the city strong.” Click here to check out M25’s Kansas City breakdown. Having regionally-focused venture capital firms — like the KCRise Fund,... Read more
...that having such a narrow thesis is a tremendous luxury,” said Clauson, who founded Abstraction Capital in 2020. “I’m a specialist fund, and founders like having someone on the cap... Read more
...publicly disclose individual funding amounts. [Editor’s note: The Missouri Technology Corporation and Sailes are both financial supporters of Startland News.] Missouri’s IDEA Fund Co-Investment Programs, and specifically its Venture Ca... Read more