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

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

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

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

Overland Park Add NewME to the list of noteworthy accelerators helping AgLocal ramp up to full speed. Earlier this month, we … read more

Overland Park With South By Southwest Interactive and the fourth annual SXSW Accelerator on the horizon, a Silicon Prairie standard bearer has emerged. It was announced on Monday that AgLocal, a startup based in Overland Park, Kan., was chosen from more than 670 companies as one of the 48 that will participate in the Accelerator on March 12-13 in Austin, Texas. AgLocal will compete in the "Innovative Web Technologies" portion of the Accelerator. Co-founded by Naithan Jones and Jacob McDaniel, AgLocal is a … read more