Three Kansas City startup founders are among 20 early-stage companies selected for the latest NXTUS program aimed at boosting innovation from within urban and rural areas throughout the state of Kansas.

NXTUS adds to its team and board that position it to continue expanding its impact from 2023, its best year yet for serving the region’s growth-minded entrepreneurs and innovators.

The 2024 cohort includes entrepreneurs offering unique healthcare solutions, business operations and individual well-being technology tools, a spin on traditional services, innovative experience and product-based solutions with robust e-commerce capabilities, and sustainable apparel for today’s generation of shoppers.

Nonprofit’s work to mobilize growth capital, connect startups to community resources hits major milestones for entrepreneurship-driven economic development

An eight-week program targeting knowledge and access gaps between emerging startups and enterprise companies helped boost a trio of Kansas City ventures whose founders are now eying new customers and partners as they scale.

NXTUS, Inc. yesterday wrapped up the 2023 NXTSTAGE Enterprise Engagement Series program at the Startup-Enterprise Summit, a flagship event during Wichita Startup Week and Global Entrepreneurship Week.

From blade sharpening to hemp building materials, more than a dozen startups pitched their ideas to onlookers, investors and businesses during the Wichita Startup 2023 NXTSTAGE Enterprise Engagement Series event on Wednesday afternoon at Cargill.

Koch Industries, an innovator in its own right, is presenting the third Wichita Startup Week beginning Monday.

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At an in-person and live-streamed Innovation Showcase yesterday, NXTUS and Premiere Sponsors Emprise Bank, INTRUST Bank and Kansas Bankers Association, announced seven winners of the 2023 NXTSTAGE Financial Technology Pilot Competition.

Fresh off completing the Tulsa Techstars Accelerator and NXSTAGE fintech competition in Wichita, a busy Kansas City startup just announced a $100,000 investment from Northwestern Mutual.

NXTUS is a nonprofit organization in Wichita that supports early-stage technology companies so they can grow quickly in Kansas.

Nine startups from across the country, including one from a Wichita teen, plugged their ideas at a forum Thursday that brought together Kansas leaders from across the state.

A trio of emerging Kansas City startups are among 20 cohort members selected to forge new strategic connections with big-name Kansas enterprise partners like Koch, Evergy, Cargill and Spirit AeroSystems.

Once again, startups from across Kansas have been chosen to participate in a series that pairs successful companies with innovators.

NXTUS, Inc. today announced the second ever cohort of twenty program participants and revealed the twelve enterprise partners for the 2023 NXTSTAGE Enterprise Engagement Series.

An AI-infused startup led by Kansas City serial founder Jannae Gammage is poised to compete against seven other finalists in this fall’s NXTSTAGE innovation showcase in Wichita.

Along with Premiere Sponsors Emprise Bank, INTRUST Bank and Kansas Bankers Association, as well as the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, NXTUS today announced eight finalists for the NXTSTAGE Financial Technology Pilot Competition and its 2023 Innovation Showcase event.

Eight financial startups compete for funds and visibility during the NXTSTAGE Financial Technology Pilot Competition and its 2023 Innovation Showcase event in October in Wichita.