High-Potential Kansas Startups Complete Newest NXTSTAGE Program
Customer Traction Cohort Equips Early-Stage Companies for Growth
NXTSTAGE 2022 Customer Traction Cohort showcasing high-potential startups.
NXTUS, Inc.’s NXTSTAGE Customer Traction Cohort today celebrated Kansas startups for accelerating their customer-acquisition journeys and validating product-market fit through eight weeks of customized coaching and workshops.
The program, designed to help early-stage companies break through barriers to acquiring customers, was made possible by grants from the U.S. Economic Development Administration and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
The accelerator launched in March as one of two new NXTUS programs to strengthen Kansas’ entrepreneurial ecosystem. The program, which included in-person sessions with regional experts and coaching and product-market fit experiments with Fluent, also received support from NetWork Kansas and the Greater Wichita Partnership.
“By providing access to the insight and support early-stage companies need to focus their customer-acquisition efforts, we’re helping fuel their growth and the engine of growth for our region,” said Mary Beth Jarvis, Executive Director of NXTUS and NXTSTAGE. “When entrepreneurs grow companies of significance here in Kansas, they make their dreams come true, and they elevate us all.”
The cohort members offer solutions that include improving health-care collaboration and market transparency, vehicle services for consumers and businesses, elevating the leadership of women, and more:
Jacob Calhoun, Founder and CEO of Soya Fuel vehicle fueling and maintenance.
Taishma Council, Founder and CEO of Virtual Goals Assistant Agency.
Ashley Dewey, Founder and CEO of Zeep body care and home fragrance.
Audra Dinell, Founder and CEO of The Thread Women’s Leadership Collective.
Jocelyn Galicia-Powell, Founder and CEO of 2UAuto detailing.
Ramsey Jamoul, Founder and CEO of Unified e-sports agency.
Dean Jargo, CEO of transparent health-care marketplace Fair Market Health
Dr. Sanjay Khicha, Co-founder and CEO of Cognition Med, offering collaboration platform Coltrain.
Faith Tucker, Founder and CEO of buy-now-pay-later solution EZ Later.