In 2018, 50 percent of the top venture capital-funded companies in Kansas City got their start with early-stage investment programs that emerged after 2012, according to We Create KC 2019, KCSourceLink’s sixth annual state of entrepreneurship report.
“That high percentage shows us how important these early-stage investment programs are to our entrepreneurs and our ecosystem,” said Maria Meyers, founder of KCSourceLink, and executive director of the University of Missouri–Kansas City Innovation Center, of which KCSourceLink is a program.
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