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Tech ESP May 2013 – Innovadex’s Bruce Ianni Will Be Speaking!

The 2013 Technology Entrepreneur Speakers Program (ESP), highlights the region’s most innovative technology business leaders as they discuss ideas and opportunities for the future generation of entrepreneurs. The series highlights experiences, lessons learned and unique issues and challenges faced by entrepreneurs in the creation of a new enterprise. To register, click here. About the speaker, [...]

Data Locker is finalist for Kansas City Small Business of the Year award

The KC Chamber’s small business director chats with KMBZ’s Krista Klaus about the chamber’s 27th annual Small Business Celebration. More than 100 companies from across the Kansas City region applied, and judges narrowed the field of candidates to the Top 10 ahead of the May 15 announcement of the Small Business of the Year for [...]

Netchemia gets $6.5M for its teacher evaluation & recruitment software

It’s become far easier for ed-tech startups to sell software to schools. With this shift, a number of new companies have experienced rapid adoption in K-12 school districts. Netchemia, a startup providing talent management tools, claims more than 1,100 K-12 school districts and institutions in 42 states use its services. The Kansas-based company says it makes easier [...]

Washington University students win $25,000 for medical device

Sparo Labs secured the top spot in Washington University’s School of Engineering & Applied Science’s Discovery Competition, earning $25,000 for its pocket-sized medical device that monitors lung functions. Sparo Labs developed a spirometer, which is a device that tracks lung functions, to better monitor individuals with lung disorders like asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorders and [...]

Colorado DOT Uses InSync to Manage Traffic

April 25, 2013 The Colorado Department of Transportation and City of Greeley, CO recently installed InSync adaptive traffic signal control along 10th Street corridor in Greeley. In this video, hear directly from the two traffic engineers who led the project, Larry Haas, P.E. and Eric Bracke, P.E., P.T.O.E. Learn about the traffic management challenges the [...]

Abigail Cohen: Pipeline Entrepreneurial Fellow

Abigail R. Cohen, a senior biomedical engineering student, has had a lot of good things happen in the past several months. She is part of a team that won a $30,000 prize in this year’s Olin Cup and was recently chosen to join the 2013 Class of Entrepreneurial Fellows by Pipeline. To continue reading, click [...]

Asian American Chamber of Commerce of Kansas City announces 2013 CelebrASIAN Award Winners

Asian American Chamber of Commerce of Kansas City announces 2013 CelebrASIAN Award Winners The Asian American Chamber of Commerce of Kansas City (AACC) will be honoring the accomplishments of local Asian Americans in business, community service, philanthropy and professional leadership at its 10th Annual CelebrASIAN Award Gala. This year’s Awardees are: Professional of the Year [...]

Pipeline Open House

Pipeline has moved its headquarters to Kansas City Startup Village. Join us for an Open House to see our new space, meet some of our members and advisors – and connect with others in Startup Village. There is street parking available in the neighborhoods surrounding Pipeline headquarters. Sponsored by: Pipeline Member Stuart Jackson and Dentons [...]

Startups seek money at ‘Invest Midwest’

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – It takes money to make money as every entrepreneur knows. On Thursday, high-tech startups from across the nation made their pitch to deep pocket investors at the Westin Crown Center. Invest Midwest is a two day event where 41 companies selected out of 120 are seeking millions to get off the ground floor. One [...]

Moblico Releases Most Complete Mobile Services Platform that Drives Collaboration Between Developers and Marketers

KANSAS CITY, Mo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Moblico, a leading provider of mobile solutions, today announced the general availability of its award-winning, proven mobile platform that provides developer tools with a marketer mindset. Moblico’s platform empowers developers and marketers to directly collaborate to create mobile solutions that deliver rich content, dynamically communicate, and build strong loyalty with customers. The [...]

Matt Medlock and PaySAFE to be featured at Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce’s Cornstalks on Thursday, March 21st

Join us for the March edition of Cornstalks this Thursday evening, March 21. Matt Medlock will be featured as he shares about the journey of leaving his corporate job to pursue his new startup “PaySAFE.” PaySAFE is an online closing table that allows purchasers and sellers a secure way to escrow funds for online purchases. [...]

Health summit highlights connections between humans, animals, environment

OVERLAND PARK – There was some brainstorming going on at the One Health Summit here earlier this week at Johnson County Community College. For example, Jewel Scott, executive director of the Civic Council of Great Kansas City, an organization that includes CEOs from some of the area’s leading companies, asked participants to imagine what might [...]

EyeVerify sees past original accuracy mark, starts beta

EyeVerify has even better vision than before as it starts a private beta program to test its mobile authentication software. The Kansas City, Mo. startup whose software scans a user’s “eyeprint”—the blood veins pattern in the whites of one’s eyes—to authenticate their use of a mobile device, recently announced results from a test of its technology. Collected by Purdue University‘s Biometric Standards, [...]

Bulu Box makes Top 50 Most Innovative Health, Fitness and Happiness Startups List

Maintaining good health means asking a lot of questions. How far did I run this morning? Why am I tossing and turning for hours every night? How many calories were in that Chipotle burrito? But when counting every refried bean just won’t work, it can be hard to find answers. Luckily, there are at least 50 [...]

Blake gives a personal tour of the Cornhusker Stadium which was kicked off by legendary coach Tom Osborne. Blake is a former Cornhusker linebacker.

UNL awards to Distinguished Entrepreneurs

The Center for Entrepreneurship in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Business Administration announced its 2013 UNL Distinguished Entrepreneur Awards. The event is held in conjunction with the three-day EntrepreneuringDays@UNL event this week. To see list of winners and read full article on JournalStar.com, click here.

EyeVerify, eye scanner for smartphone

It seems difficult to achieve effectively lock their smartphone by days. Also EyeVerify presented at MWC Barcelona Eyeprint its technology, scanner eye, just that, to protect the phone against intruders. Description of the system. For full story in Gizmodo, click here.

Mobile Backend Starts With Customers, Opens API for All

For mobile developers looking to launch a full-featured app fast, a mobile backend provider makes sense. Newly wide open Moblico is hardly new to the task. The company has been serving up the mobile backend of big companies since 2009. Now any developer can get started with the Moblico API to launch apps, with access to the features built [...]

RSA: Self-Encrypting USB Hard Drives for all Operating Systems (Video)

Tim Lord met Jay Kim at the RSA Conference in an Francisco. Kim’s background is in manufacturing, but he’s got an interest in security that has manifested itself in hardware with an emphasis on ease of use. His company, DataLocker, has come up with a fully cross-platform, driver independent portable system that mates a touch-pad input device with [...]

instin’s cross-platform education tools bring schools into the digital age

Kansas City, Missouri-based Instin is already hard at work helping students keep track of their daily assignments with a cross-platform app called myHomework – their nifty replacement for the student agenda book — and the company is now looking to reach across the teacher’s desk with a brand new tool that will enable educators to communicate with one another [...]

EyeVerify Announces Beta Program for iOS and Android Smartphones Ushering in New Era in Mobile Security

SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire – Feb 25, 2013) – EyeVerify today announced a public beta of the industry’s first EyePrint Verification System. Eyeprints are a simple safe replacement for entering passwords on smartphones. The beta program is designed to support EyeVerify beta participants seeking to integrate, test and deploy the next generation mobile authenticator. This beta [...]