March 6, 2013 by Fred Bauters
Kansas City A charter bus transporting 40 entrepreneurs will depart from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation at about 9 p.m Thursday for South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas. Startup Missouri is hosting the "ShowMe SXSW" caravan, with sponsorships from Kauffman Foundation, the St. Louis Regional Chamber and others. Cameron Cushman (below), senior advisor at Kauffman Foundation … read more
March 5, 2013 by Fred Bauters
Prairie Village After more than a year in development and a seed round of $1.5 million, AgLocal last week launched into private beta with 20 notable New York City chefs. The Kansas City area startup aims to improve its restaurant industry offering as it recruits top-tier chefs from the coasts—San Francisco is next—to test … read more
September 28, 2012 by Danny Schreiber
Mission AgLocal, a Mission, Kan.-based startup that's attracted notable media and investor attention, aims to continue to build buzz around its approaching launch with an event Oct. 5. Titled Celebration of Meat, the event kicks off the startup's #EatClear marketing campaign, one that will ask diners to encourage the restaurants they patronize to carry responsibly raised meat. On Oct. 20, the startup … read more
August 1, 2012 by Michael Stacy
Prairie Village AgLocal has closed part of a seed round featuring a mix of Midwestern money and high-profile coastal investment. Is there an echo in here? Nope. But there is an Eckō. AgLocal co-founder and CEO Naithan Jones confirmed that his startup has closed on an additional $500,000 in seed funding, bringing total capital raised in the round to $1.5 million. The second portion of the round includes investment from Dundee … read more
June 29, 2012 by Michael Stacy
Prairie Village AgLocal has raised the first $1 million of a potentially larger seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAir Equity Partners, AgLocal CEO Naithan Jones said in a phone interview Thursday. The seed round also involves a variety of angel investors based in Kansas City and in Silicon Valley. The Kansas City contingent includes AgLocal advisors Thad Langford, Sarah Gambach and Dan Carroll, VinSolutions and Stackify founder Matt Watson and Tradebot Ventures partner Andy O’Hara. Based in Prairie Village, Kan., and co-founded by Jones and Jacob … read more
June 13, 2012 by Michael Stacy
Prairie Village Silicon Prairie News: AgLocal wrapped up 12 weeks at the NewMe Accelerator last month. What were a few of the team's main takeaways from that experience? | Josh Coleman: That access to networks of influence are key to startups and having the resources they provided are so valuable to young startups like ours. | SPN: You spent 10 years at Batts before making the jump to Zaarly in 2011. What compelled you to make that big career change? | JC: I had become frustrated throughout the last couple of years at Batts and knew I needed to make a change in my career. I wasn't sure exactly what I wanted to do, but I had been researching and talking to people about startups for several years and was fascinated with what I was finding. … read more
April 19, 2012 by Michael Stacy
Prairie Village AgLocal, one of Kansas City's most talked-about tech startups of 2012, has teamed with Thad Langford, the executive behind one of Kansas City's most ballyhooed tech acquisitions of 2011. And — no surprise here — the startup continues to garner plenty of attention from investors and media outlets alike. More on that alliance and those investors in a moment. But first, while it's still hot off the presses, the media attention: AgLocal, a marketplace … read more
April 3, 2012 by Danny Schreiber
Published Tuesdays and Fridays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if you have suggestions … read more
April 2, 2012 by Michael Stacy
Austin Nevermind that he was busy participating in one panel and moderating another last month at South By Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas. Jeff Slobotski, SPN's co-founder and chief community officer, still found time to put on his reporter's hat and go to work. In the midst of a whirlwind few days in Austin, he caught up with Scott Case, CEO of the Startup … read more
March 30, 2012 by Danny Schreiber
Published Tuesdays and Fridays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if you have suggestions on how we could improve these posts or any … read more
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