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RX Savings Solutions

2018 Startups to Watch: Rx Savings Solutions prescribes answer to high drug costs

Editor’s note: Startland News selected the top Kansas City firms to spotlight for its annual Startups to Watch list. The following is one of 2018’s companies. To view the full, ranked list of Startups to Watch, click here. When it comes to U.S. prescription drugs, it appears there’s one certainty: Prices are going up —…

Super Dispatch

2018 Startups to Watch: Super Dispatch takes shipping partners into the digital age

Editor’s note: Startland News selected the top Kansas City firms to spotlight for its annual Startups to Watch list. The following is one of 2018’s companies. To view the full, ranked list of Startups to Watch, click here. Super Dispatch first delivered its concept to the trucking and hauling industries with professionals and managers adopting…

Mycroft AI

Mycroft AI inks $1.75M in oversubscribed round, battling Amazon, Google

In a quiet room amid the chaos of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Mycroft AI CEO Josh Montgomery gleefully told Startland News Friday that his tech firm raised a significant seed round. Mycroft recently raised a $1.75 million round that will help the Kansas City-based artificial intelligence startup accelerate hiring plans and corporate…

Beyond Collisions Maria Meyers Kate Hodel

Beyond Collisions: KCSourceLink duo craft book to build entrepreneurial ecosystems

When you’ve worked more than 15 years cultivating an entrepreneurial community, you’re bound to pick up a wealth of tools and insight. And in the case of Maria Meyers and Kate Hodel, the duo’s experience and knowledge have coalesced into a book that aims to provide cities a guide for how to broadly support entrepreneurs….

Pedro Zamora, Hispanic Economic Development Corporation

KCultivator Q&A: Pedro Zamora percolates on chupacabra, HEDC, Mom’s slow-drip Folgers coffee

Editor’s note: KCultivators is a lighthearted profile series to highlight people who are meaningfully enriching Kansas City’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. Check out our features on ‘fashionpreneur’ Jordan Williams, Plexpod founder Gerald Smith, innovation coach Diana Kander, Victor & Penny’s Erin McGrane, SEED Law’s Adrienne Haynes, Code Koalas’ Robert Manigold, Prep-KC CEO Susan Wally and community builder Donald Carter….