Local investor group backs three Midwest companies in April

Josh Oeding, founder and managing member Accelerate Venture Partners, says the group's investors have stay active even during the uncertainty created by Covid-19.

By Daniel McCoy - Reporter

The stay-at-home order in Kansas last month didn’t mean startup dollars had to stay in the house as well.

Accelerate Venture Partners on Tuesday announced that it made investments in three Midwest companies in April totaling $750,000. 

The angel investment group was formed around a year and half ago and says its funding since that time has totaled $2.3 million to seven companies. 

“Great companies can be built in tough economic times, and the founders we are backing are showing their true grit as they do the hard work of bringing new technologies to market and growing their commercial adoption,” Josh Oeding, founder and managing member of Accelerate Venture Partners, says in a news release. 

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