KC Rising, the Kansas City Region’s long-term vision to build capacity, bring existing businesses to scale and fully realize the KC region’s economic potential, welcomed 450 area business and civic leaders to its annual community update event on February 28, 2017. In...

Founding chairs Smith and Girod depart, celebrate progress and early impact of KC Rising efforts. The KC Rising Steering Committee announced today that John Murphy, Sandy Price and William Gautreaux will jointly chair the KC Rising Steering Committee beginning March...

The KCRise Fund joined blooom in announcing that the financial start-up would become the fifth company in the KCRise Fund portfolio. Darcy Howe, KCRise Fund manager, said, “Early in blooom’s funding round, KCRise Fund and blooom saw in each other the combined value we...

The KCRise Fund, a venture capital sidecar fund with the mission of encouraging early stage investment in Kansas City-based companies, announced today that it has selected two KC area firms, PEQ and Dunami, for investment. “The KCRise Fund is ending its first year...

A focus area of the KC Rising Innovation and Entrepreneurship Work Group is building a network of innovation hubs, particularly those that bring large corporations together with the entrepreneurial community. A recent article in the Kansas City Business Journal...

The KCRise Fund announced today that it has selected two KC area companies, SpiderOak and Innara Health, for the fund’s first investments. “SpiderOak and Innara Health got our attention early on and we are so excited to play a role in their future success,” said Darcy...

It has now been six months since our Year One Update and we continue to be inspired and impressed by the amount of activity, progress and work being done to support our KC Rising mission. Here are just a few highlights: Significant work is being done to identify gaps...

The KC Design + Construct Task Force has begun to meet regularly and is on an accelerated path toward a global brand and positioning campaign for KC’s design, construction, architecture and engineering industry. The group is identifying common challenges and...

The Human Capital Oversight Committee continues to stay very busy and productive, honing its focus on Alignment – education, job opportunities and people; Attraction – new and retained talent; and Access – making programs, education and job opportunities inclusive and...

C Rising’s leaders continue to appear in local and national news outlets highlighting efforts to stimulate the region’s economy. The following articles showcase examples of the recent advancements being made to elevate our community. Please share these articles with...