Kansas City Thanks to an all-expenses-paid trip earlier this year, a University of Houston student discovered the Kansas City startup community. The student, Andrew Douglass, a management information systems major, in March earned a trip to participate in "Hacking the Gigabit City." … read more
May 14, 2013 by Fred Bauters
Kansas City Neighbor.ly has been selected to join a community of nine other civic startups from around the country in the Points of Light Civic Accelerator. "We're getting access to the best and brightest minds of civic technology," Neighbor.ly CEO Jase Wilson on Tuesday told Silicon Prairie News. "We'll emerge with a much more polished, effective product." Points of Light, a nonprofit organization that mobilizes people to do volunteer work, joined forces with Village Capital, a firm behind 17 accelerator … read more
May 14, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
San Francisco For the third time, Banno founder Wade Arnold made his way to Finovate to unveil a product he hopes wows an audience filled with banking and financial industry execs. "To some extent, a lot of people who present at Finovate are here to disrupt banking," Arnold ... read more
As we were knee-deep in Big Omaha preparation last Tuesday, Tech Cocktail gave 12 Kansas City companies a shot at pitching to an audience at Boulevard Brewing Co. Lucky Orange, which helps businesses track where eyeballs are specifically landing on their websites, was … read more
May 14, 2013 by Megan Bannister
Indianola In January, Simpson College began a collaboration with the city's economic development organization and its utilities provider to make Indianola an even more desirable location for startups. At the end of April, the more than 30 students participating ... read more
May 14, 2013 by Fred Bauters
Kansas City SparkLabKC is ready to plug in with the 11 early-stage startups—all from Kansas City—it chose for its inaugural class. The accelerator last … read more
May 13, 2013 by Megan Bannister
Iowa City Just because the spring semester is coming to an end doesn't mean that Iowa City-based startup Tutor Universe is heading out on summer vacation. On the contrary, co-founder and CEO Michael Morrison says the company is busier than ever. The team of 12 just completed a $300,000 round of funding from angel investors. The Tutor Universe website, which went live for its soft launch last November, attracted roughly 1,300 users in its first two months. After the site's official launch at the end of January ... read more
May 13, 2013 by Fred Bauters
Kansas City On the eve of its first Finovate appearance, Kansas City startup EyeVerify today announced it closed a $2.3 million Series A round and will begin offering its mobile authentication software to banks, investment firms, payment systems and others in the banking and financial services sectors. Investors in this round include Think Big Ventures and Nebraska Angels—both participants in the startup's $1.4 million seed round last year—along with Mid-America Angels and undisclosed individuals ... read more
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