Don’t settle for one winning season, Mitch Holthus — the longtime voice of the Kansas City Chiefs — told a group of startup founders, encouraging entrepreneurs to keep pushing forward before they find themselves hitting a professional plateau.

NXTUS, Inc. has launched the 2024 NXTSTAGE Community Health and Vibrancy Pilot Competition, presented by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas (BCBSKS). This program matches leading innovators from around the globe with forward-looking organizations dedicated to advancing population health and fostering community growth in Kansas.

NXTUS Inc. has launched the fifth-annual NXTSTAGE Financial Technology Pilot Competition, designed for startups with innovative financial technology products, with applications closing Monday.

Velez spoke Monday about her rebranded business before a few hundred people at an event hosted by NXTUS, a Wichita organization that helps startups. She was one of about 40 innovators in or around Kansas attending the NXTUS Gamechangers and Champions event at WSU Tech's NICHE facility downtown.

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, 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.

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.

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.

Here are five up-and-coming Wichita startups to keep an eye on:

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.