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Launch Health check-up: Sickweather uses accelerator to diagnose its startup progress

Laurel Edelman, Sickweather

Editor’s note: The following is part of a series of stories on the six cohort companies of the Launch Health Accelerator, powered by Nueterra Capital and sponsored by LaunchKC. Click here to read all the stories published in this series. Just because your company’s been around the block doesn’t mean you’re done learning, said Laurel…

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Launch Health check-up: WellBrain uses cohort to reduce its own pain points in fight against opioid epidemic

Sumeet Maniar, WellBrain

Editor’s note: The following is part of a series of stories on the six cohort companies of the Launch Health Accelerator, powered by Nueterra Capital and sponsored by LaunchKC. Click here to read all the stories published in this series. Launch KC offers hands-on programs, designed with intention, Sumeet Maniar said.  “I’ve done startups before and…

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Tiki Bar T-Shirt Club revives now-closed beachy haunts, celebrates era of the side hustle  

Bryan Azorsky, Tiki Bar T-Shirt Club

Tiki Bar culture is a quirky niche for a Kansas City-based side hustle, admitted Bryan Azorsky, but rapidly evolving online tools that eliminate middlemen help make such passions profitable and scalable. “I think the future is really people having more than one job in a way. They may have their main job and then they…

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Launch Health check-up: TheraWe Connect bridging gap between parents, pediatric therapy

Kaitlin Doyle, TheraWe Connect

Editor’s note: The following is part of a series of stories on the six cohort companies of the Launch Health Accelerator, powered by Nueterra Capital and sponsored by LaunchKC. Click here to read all the stories published in this series. Opportunity unlocked, it’s full steam ahead for TheraWe Connect as the startup prepares to check out…

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Launch Health check-up: medZERO simplifies medical bill pay with zero interest, zero fees

Mike Sobek, medZERO

Editor’s note: The following is part of a series of stories on the six cohort companies of the Launch Health Accelerator, powered by Nueterra Capital and sponsored by LaunchKC. Click here to read all the stories published in this series. Paying medical bills should be as simple as making a car payment, said Mike Sobek.  “We…

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