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NXTUS Celebrates Graduates, Alumni, and Supporters at Gamechangers & Champions Event
NXTUS, Inc. today graduated 20 growth-minded Kansas startups from the NXTSTAGE Customer Traction Cohort at the Gamechangers and Champions rally, which featured the voice of the Kansas City Chiefs, Mitch Holthus.
NXTUS Makes Strategic Team Changes, Board Additions
NXTUS, Inc. announced additions 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.
Kansas group aims to build entrepreneurship in state’s communities
The program manager for a Kansas-based organization that provides no-cost support to start-up businesses was the featured speaker during K-State's First Friday e-call, which aims to inspire entrepreneurship in the state.
NXTSTAGE taps trio of KC entrepreneurs to help their companies grow revenue, scale
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.
Kansas Entrepreneurship Support Organization Makes Strategic Team, Board Additions
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.
NXTUS Launches 2024 NXTSTAGE Customer Traction Cohort
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.
NXTUS Completes Banner Year of Entrepreneur Empowerment, Community Impact
Nonprofit’s work to mobilize growth capital, connect startups to community resources hits major milestones for entrepreneurship-driven economic development
This Wichita program is helping KC startups connect the dots to corporate partners
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.
Startup-Enterprise Summit Features Diverse Growth-Minded Kansas Entrepreneurs
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.
11 Wichita-area startups show off their goods at the Wichita StartUp event
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-powered startup week offers free nuts and bolts of entrepreneurship
Koch Industries, an innovator in its own right, is presenting the third Wichita Startup Week beginning Monday.
Wichita is home to dozens of startups: Here are five to keep an eye on
Here are five up-and-coming Wichita startups to keep an eye on:
Financial Technology Startups Pitch, Winners Crowned at NXTUS Innovation Event
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.
Foresight announces $100K investment for its AI-fueled fintech fraud solution for banks
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.
How Wichita nonprofit is helping Kansas grow
NXTUS is a nonprofit organization in Wichita that supports early-stage technology companies so they can grow quickly in Kansas.
Medical startups from across the country compete in Wichita NXTUS contest
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.
KC entrepreneurs tapped to team up with top-tier Kansas enterprise businesses
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.
Wichita partners band together to help innovative startups
Once again, startups from across Kansas have been chosen to participate in a series that pairs successful companies with innovators.
State-Wide Entrepreneurs to Engage with Kansas Enterprises in Unique Startup Program
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.