Mommy Meals – Mitch Case

Mommy Meals – Mitch Case

As new parents, it’s very easy to get overwhelmed quickly and often. Our purpose is to allow friends and family to actively be a part of the parenthood journey, by providing meals that are simple and convenient to new parents when life is at its most chaotic. In the process, we will donate 5% of all proceeds to our select partner for research and relief of Postpartum Depression. Together, we will help make the most miraculous event in life, the birth of a newborn, a more comforting and engaging experience.

WiGo Trips – Jaqui McCarthy

WiGo Trips – Jaqui McCarthy

At our core, WiGo Trips is a trip sharing platform. An app designed by travelers for travelers with an end goal of making travel more accessible while connecting you to like-minded people and crossing items off your bucket list. WiGo Trips allows people to plan a trip, post it, and open it up for ANYONE to go on. That means friends, family, and new travel friends you haven’t met in person yet! Simply download the app, sign up, and browse through several trips that have already been created. See one you like? All you have to do is request to join, get approved, and pay. Like that, you’re taking your next adventure instead of dreaming about it!

Diggs – Pat McLoughlin

Diggs – Pat McLoughlin

The only savings app that helps you reach homeownership faster.  We’re a passionate team with deep real estate and tech experience. Our mission is to make homeownership accessible for everyone.


Boozy Botanicals – Cheryl Bisbee

Boozy Botanicals – Cheryl Bisbee

Elevate your favorite cocktail, beverage, dish or dessert with our premium, all natural infused syrup.  Boozy brings the delicious, complex, flavorful experience of your favorite craft cocktail bar right to your own home. We make mixology easy!


The Product Foundry – Joe Losito

The Product Foundry – Joe Losito

The Product Foundry is a multi-disciplined product development firm specializing in product design, international sourcing, and domestic sheetmetal manufacturing.

Web: www.tpfkc.com

Facebook: www.facebook.com/ladderanchors

Twitter: @ladderanchors

Instagram: @ladderanchors

Briometrix – Andy Brown

Briometrix – Andy Brown

We measure the motion of wheelchairs through both proprietary hardware and software.  We analyze the data in different contexts to help with fitness, clinicians & rehab, and accessibility, among others.  Through the software component, we build user interactions with this information focusing on fitness apps, client management, and accessibility and navigation maps/apps.  The insights we gain tell the story of a wheelchair user’s life – accessibility, fitness, health, injury prevention and social inclusion and have been validated by our work with NSW Institute of Sports and leading SCI hospitals.

SaRA Health – Steven Coen

SaRA Health – Steven Coen

Born out of each founder’s personal struggle with recovery from an injury, our digital assistant, SaRA, reduces the cost of occupational injuries by supporting patients through their recovery process resulting in reduced recovery times. Employers can save $5,000+ per injury per week saved in recovery time and, as a whole, $20B across all US employers. Currently, we have a beta-tested product, are in the Techstars Kansas City cohort, and are partnering with Bardavon Health Innovations for an outcomes study. Lastly, we are looking for potential corporate clients who are interested in helping their employees, or those of their clients, return to work quicker and healthier after a workplace injury.

Lula – Bo Lais

Lula is a mobile platform making it possible for consumers to easily schedule same-day home services from highly-rated professionals already working in their neighborhood. Using each homeowners unique property data and preferences we can provide upfront pricing on many services we offer such as lawn care, home cleaning, handyman, junk removal, HVAC, and more.

Luke Einsel with Thirsty Coconut

Luke Einsel with Thirsty Coconut


Thirsty Coconut has the perfect Frozen Drink machine for your next party or event.  From a small home party with one machine or a large event for our food truck we will bring the fun and make your event a success!

Swell Spark – Matt Baysinger

Swell Spark – Matt Baysinger

Swell Spark is the parent company of Breakout KC, Blade & Timber, and Catalyst Build. We believe in gathering people and offering shared interactive experiences.  We are in the midst of a huge growth stage, and we are in the balancing act of not growing too fast, and not growing too slow!

www.swellspark.com

www.breakoutkc.com

www.bladeandtimber.com

Email: [email protected]

Wise Power – Kevin Williams

Wise Power – Kevin Williams


WISE Distributed Energy (WISE) patented technology will be a game- changer for energy consumers.  WISE was started in 2009 to develop an innovative smart grid technology; research and development resulted in multiple patent application awards in 2016 for a personal energy system (PES) and a distributed energy source system. WISE is positioned to commercialize the patents using intelligent storage (WISE POD) and the Internet of Things (IoT) (WISE Controller). With our patents, we can increase consumer adoption of advanced technology, now.

Contra Software/Studio Fusion – Jim Passmore

Contra Software/Studio Fusion – Jim Passmore

Description

Contra Software, LLC is a software development firm that was founded by it’s owner Chris Palmer in the spring of 2010. We help our customers re-imagine the technology that drives their business. Our company boasts a sizable mobile, web and graphics portfolio from our experienced professionals. All of our staff has spent a significant amount of time working with Fortune 500 companies and we look forward to sharing that experience with our customers.

Studio Fusion has given Studios and Costume Departments a free suite of tools that allows them to do every facet of their job more efficiently, including the collection of product information for the show’s costumes. This product information will assist Studio Fusion in the recruitment of Fashion Designers and Brands to join the exclusive Studio Fusion Marketplace.

Area of Assistance/Guidance

We are always looking for the top technical talent. We build applications in Java in the Cloud ( Amazon Web Services) with both a Web Frontend ( HTML, CSS, and Angular) as well as a mobile frontend.

Comfy Cup – Kyler Russell (and his mom Brandi)

Comfy Cup – Kyler Russell (and his mom Brandi)

Description

Little Leaguer, Kyler Russell, loved baseball, but hated the mandatory cup he had to wear.  His parents encouraged him to channel his complaints into creating an alternative and he knocked one out of the park with a smarter, softer solution.   Kyler created Comfy Cup , a youth athletic cup for boys like him who dislike wearing the traditional hard athletic cup.  Comfy Cup provides light protection in a comfortable—and kid-friendly—design.

Unlike the typical hard plastic versions, Comfy Cup is soft and flexible. It’s molded from pliable foam that contours to the body, and has a breathable mesh lining. Its scaled-down size and light impact protection make it the perfect first athletic cup for school-aged kids just getting started with contact sports.

Area of Assistance/Guidance

  • We are always open to constructive criticism, recommendations and guidance as we scale our business.
  • We would love to connect with a mentor who has experience selling on Amazon and can offer guidance on bookkeeping and accounting for Amazon.
  • We are currently seeking legal advice on the possibility of a patent for Kyler’s Comfy Cup.
  • We are always looking to partner with local sporting goods retailers to carry Comfy Cup inventory in their brick and mortar or online store.

 

Julia’s Storm Sleeper – Julia Luetje

Next time a thunderstorm keeps you awake, just slide your head right into the Storm Sleeper, a fort-style pillow complete with a light and speakers.  Perfect for sleeping or reading peacefully.

 

Web: www.thestormsleeper.com

Twitter: @JuliasStormSleeper

Facebook: www.Facebook.com/JuliasStormSleeper/

Glasswater Lead Free Lures – John King

Glasswater Lead Free Lures – John King


Description

Glasswater LFL is a company committed to helping prevent the over 2,000 tons of lead fishing litter that goes into our lakes, rivers and coastal waters every fishing season.  Anglers are overwhelmingly environmentally minded not only because they have an appreciation for the great outdoors but for the common sense reason that a cleaner environment means more places to fish and more fish in those places.  By providing fishers with lead free solutions that can compete with lead products in terms of price, availability and effectiveness we know our fishing friends will make a change to ecofriendly lures and weights and together we can “get the lead out” and make some money too!!!

Area of Assistance/Guidance

  1. We are looking for are introductions to interested groups from Boy Scout troops to potential investors.
  2. We are interested in getting sponsorships, attracting funding and generating marketing avenues in addition to getting the word out about the hazards of lead.
  3. We are needing some help in locating OEMs, finding or developing automated processes for a number of our products and advice on how to source both within the USA and overseas.
Linda Van Horn – iShare Medical

Linda Van Horn – iShare Medical

iShare Medical is a complete medical record, organized around the person, that is easily and securely shared across trusted providers, organizations, software programs and devices and available at your fingertips 24/7/365.

At iShare Medical, we challenge the status quo by creating software to get, organize, and share medical information. We believe that your medical information should be organized around you so that a complete picture of your health and healthcare can be available to you, your doctors, and, if you authorize it, your loved ones. We believe in building software that is beautiful and simple to use that helps patients, doctors, and insurers get the information they need to streamline care and payment for services rendered. We believe that sharing complete information helps you and your doctor can make the right decisions for you. There is power in sharing complete information; power that could lead to saving your life, improving your care, and reducing the cost of healthcare.

Contact info

Melissa Roberts – ECJC

Melissa Roberts – ECJC

Melissa Roberts is the VP of Communications and Outreach at the Enterprise Center of Johnson County and the President of Free State Strategy Group LLC. She has worked at the nexus of politics, marketing and community organizing for a decade.

The Enterprise Center in Johnson County is a non-profit organization that connects entrepreneurs with the resources they need to grow and scale.

We select local entrepreneurs in their early stages of development and provide them with support, financial education, mentoring, consulting and affordable work space to position them for venture development and commercialization.

Our mission is to stimulate business creation and employment in the region by providing resources and services to early stage, high-return, high-growth companies.

Phone: (913) 438-2282
www.ecjc.com

Tim Donnelly – SoftVu

Tim Donnelly – SoftVu

SoftVu is a SaaS Marketing CRM platform that creates, manages, distributes, and tracks automated marketing strategies and content for direct to consumer markets, currently within the banking and senior living industries. Our next generation platform, called “SeniorVu”, uses a patent-pending, machine-learning ‘matching’ algorithm, that not only identifies future clients and residents, but automatically begins to nurture them prior to the actual sales engagement, dramatically enhancing sales pipeline quality while greatly reducing cost of sales for senior living communities.

 

Just Play Sports Solutions – Austin Barone

Just Play Sports Solutions – Austin Barone

Meeting at the intersection of education, sports technology, & analytics, Just Play is helping coaches better teach and prepare athletes across the country from the High School to the Pros through digital coaching tools and our interactive mobile app.

Sickweather – Graham Dodge

Sickweather – Graham Dodge

Sickweather is the Doppler radar for sickness and the world’s only real-time, hyperlocal illness data platform which processes over 6 million reports per month and serves over 4 billion API requests per month.

Grit Virtual – Chris Callen -Oct. 4th

GRIT Virtual is a fully accessible and interactive planning engine for construction. GRIT combines the computational power of 4D (3D + Time) software with the field experience of those who will actually build the project by utilizing a first-in-class virtual reality portal.  By enabling teams in the field the ability to provide planning input, GRIT provides the most precise and reliable workflows for resource allocation and project planning available.


[email protected]

www.gritvirtual.com

facebook.com/gritvirtual

twitter.com/gritvirtual

Safely Delicious – Lisa Ragan – September 6th

Safely Delicious – Lisa Ragan – September 6th


As a mom of four children with multiple food allergies, I have been cooking allergen-free since 2004.  Not wanting my kids or anyone else with food allergies to feel excluded at school, birthday parties, social events, etc., I created snacks that looked and tasted similar to what others were eating, but were free of the food allergens they had to avoid and still tasted delicious.  Many years later, Safely Delicious™ was born.  Safely Delicious™ snacks are free of Gluten, Dairy, Peanut, Tree Nuts, Soy and Egg and are made in a dedicated commercial facility free of these allergens.  Safely Delicious™ snack bites are sweet and crunchy, Vegan, have no cholesterol, no artificial colors, no artificial flavors and no preservatives, and are an excellent source of iron.

 

Website – www.SafelyDelicious.com

Email – [email protected]

Facebook – Safely Delicious

Twitter – @SafelyDelicious

Instagram – SafelyDelicious

Pinterest – Safely Delicious

Homebase.ai – Blake Miller – August 2nd

Homebase.ai – Blake Miller – August 2nd

Homebase.ai was founded in February 2016 as a corporate innovation partnership between Think Big Labs and Sunflower Development Group. Sunflower was looking to develop a smarter apartment building to produce a building with energy efficiency and cost savings, but to provide a better living experience for their residents.

Homebase.ai is a smart apartment management platform that modernizes and simplifies property management by merging community management tools with intelligent building automation.  With Homebase.ai, multi-family residents experience state-of-the-art living experiences with smart home devices – locks, thermostats, lights, security, amenities, and communications tools.

Property managers benefit from intelligent building automation with cloud-based device data, device control, and streamlined resident communications with payment capabilities.  The Connected Manager Platform provides immediate and seamless ways to communicate with residents, automate rent collection, and enable accountable, stress-free maintenance. Homebase.ai integrates with commercially available connected home and building automation devices to provide a real-time, comprehensive view of building health and resident happiness.

http://twitter.com/HomebaseAI

[email protected]

From the Ground Up Photography – Cheryl Schoenberg – August 2nd

From the Ground Up Photography – Cheryl Schoenberg – August 2nd

From the ground UP photography provides drone, construction and architectural photography services to meet your needs. We document your project professionally from pre-construction survey to job completion. We provide you, our client, with an extensive collection of full size and web size digital images for your future use in web design, marketing materials, and client interaction. You are granted full reproduction rights to all images. Additionally, we can design photobooks for your use in marketing or for gifts for your client or architect.

[email protected]

[email protected]
913-660-5270

http://fromthegroundupphotography.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ftgup.net/?ref=bookmarks

Matt Callegari (Idea Jab) – May 3rd

Matt Callegari (Idea Jab) – May 3rd

What is the overarching goal of Idea Jab?

We’ve discovered a huge opportunity in gamifying ideation activities and we’re extremely excited about the possibilities that lie ahead.  Due to the overwhelming support we’ve received from educators, we’ve been thinking about developing classroom specific products based on our original game.  We’ve also done demos at local startups and mid-sized businesses who have requested that we make versions tailored to their needs.  We would like to start developing an extensive line of products for both markets – and a lot more.

Kevin Williams (WISE Distributed Energy) – May 3rd

Kevin Williams (WISE Distributed Energy) – May 3rd

WISE Distributed Energy (WISE) patented technology will be a game- changer for energy consumers.  WISE was started in 2009 to develop an innovative smart grid technology; research and development resulted in multiple patent application awards in 2016 for a personal energy system (PES) and a distributed energy source system. WISE is positioned to commercialize the patents using intelligent storage (WISE POD) and the Internet of Things (IoT) (WISE Controller). With our patents, we can increase consumer adoption of advanced technology, now.

 

Website: http://www.willcoenergy.com/

Email: [email protected]

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Getwisepower

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Get_WISE_POWER

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wisedistributedenergy