LaunchKC
LaunchKC’s accelerator program partners Kansas City corporations with tech startups. Our model produces an increased collaboration between corporations and startups. Our accelerators select startups that align with each corporation’s goals, providing them access to exciting innovative products and services. Startups chosen for the program will receive unprecedented resources from our corporate partners.
FinTech
Partnering with LaunchKC, NBKC Bank’s Fountain City FinTech Accelerator seeks partnerships with startups throughout the country focused on FinTech. Fountain City FinTech is the first accelerator of its kind in the nation that is run by a community bank and focuses exclusively on FinTech.
CleanTech
In partnership with LaunchKC, Black & Veatch’s IgniteX CleanTech Accelerator seeks partnerships with startups focused on Renewable and Distributed Energy, Mobility, AgTech, Machine Learning, AI, and other technological processes adding value to engineering services.
HealthTech
LaunchKC will partner with a federal government organization and a local Kansas City business to provide an accelerator for HealthTech and Data Analytics startups. This accelerator plans to start taking applications this summer and welcome its first class of startups in November.
Program
Our accelerators offer valuable training and insight to grow businesses through collaboration with leading corporations as well as networking opportunities with investors and clients in Kansas City and around the world.
Partners
Award
Our corporate partners will invest $50,000 in each business. The startups will move to Kansas City to work closely with our partners to build their business. Each cycle culminates at Demo Day when the startups present to investors.
Kansas City
Our Impact
Since 2015, LaunchKC has invested two million dollars in cash grants to attract or retain 38 tech startups to Kansas City. LaunchKC has received more than 2,000 applications from 25 states and 10 countries. Our past grant recipients and their economic impact on the Kansas City community, since receiving their grants, are listed below.
Our Supporters
LaunchKC is grateful for all the support from our sponsors. Through the generosity of our sponsors, we ignite the Kansas City economy by attracting and retaining tech startups who create jobs and economic growth.
