...entrepreneurs. About half of Kansas City’s Zip+4 zones were considered economically distressed in 2011 when the city began its CID fund, the city said. The fund partners with a neighborhood... Read more
Firebrand Ventures has partnered with the University of Missouri-Kansas City to help local startup entrepreneurs. As part of the agreement, the Kansas City-based fund will offer graduates of UMKC’s E-Scholars... Read more
A venture fund’s success is determined by its ability to find and evaluate the best deals. And that job is a whole lot easier when you have a team with... Read more
The KCRise Fund announced two investments in area firms Thursday to round out its 2016. Launched in February in conjunction with the KC Rising economic initiative, the KCRise Fund joined... Read more
...want to thank all of the partners. It looks like I’ve got a lot of work to do to figure out how we can gather the funding to proceed on... Read more
...Among the investors in Sickweather is Kansas City-based Firebrand Ventures, a $7 million fund that launched in July. Led by former Techstars managing director John Fein, the fund plans to... Read more
...innovation hub.” MTC also allocated funding awards to six startups from St. Louis and one each from Brentwood, Chesterfield and Wildwood. The capital derives from the MTC’s IDEA Fund, a... Read more
Editor’s note: Startland News is continuing its Fund Me, KC segment to highlight area entrepreneurs’ efforts to accelerate their businesses. This is an opportunity for entrepreneurs — like Idea Jab... Read more
...$1.1 million seed fund plans to accelerate its dealmaking in 2017 and Slobotski said Kansas City is key to the strategy. “I strongly believe that Omaha, Lincoln, Kansas City, Cedar... Read more
...SoftBank in October announced that it partnered with a Saudi Arabian wealth fund to launch a $100 billion tech fund. The Wall Street Journal reports that SoftBank has poured more... Read more
