Pure Pitch Rally returns October 27, 2025, for its 10th birthday celebration at the iconic Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, marking a decade of innovation, collaboration and impact across Kansas City’s startup ecosystem.
This milestone year shines a spotlight on eight remarkable founders whose ventures represent the diversity, boldness and creativity defining Kansas City’s tech future. Each will take the stage to pitch their solutions to more than 100 “land sharks” — business leaders, executives and investors who each contribute $1,000 in non-dilutive funding to the founders of their choice.
Meet the 2025 Pitchers:
BeAligned™ (Trina Nudson) – BeAligned™, developed by The Layne Project, is an AI-powered negotiation and reflection tool helping families and professionals reduce conflict in co-parenting scenarios through a proven, research-based approach.
CIQ Health (Aaron Shumate) – CIQ Health provides healthcare organizations with contract and network intelligence tools that transform complex pricing data into actionable insights, helping providers and payers optimize reimbursement, benchmark rates, and negotiate more effectively.
Enrichly (Romy Carlson) – Enrichly is a dual-sided youth enrichment marketplace designed to digitize and modernize the $90B U.S. activities sector, offering families a central hub to discover and enroll in camps and programs, while equipping providers with tools to manage scheduling, payments and growth.
OnSight (Alex Snook) – A SaaS-based identity verification platform, OnSight protects against freight fraud at warehouse docks by confirming driver credentials in real time, while simultaneously improving efficiency and safety across logistics and supply chain operations.
perfect pAIr (Matt Staub) – An AI-powered co-pilot for financial professionals that blends emotionally intelligent discovery with advanced financial planning capabilities, perfect pAIr helps advisors uncover client motivations, deliver holistic strategies across retirement, tax, and estate planning, and inspire action.
Resonus (Mitch Mabrey) – Resonus is a civic engagement app that allows residents to communicate with local government officials in their own language via text or app, while providing public sector leaders with AI-summarized insights to make faster, more inclusive and more informed decisions.
SiteScan (Ian Foster) – SiteScan uses AI-powered image recognition to automate civil infrastructure inspections, beginning with sewer systems and quickly expanding to additional use cases, helping engineers and project managers reduce manual workload and accelerate construction timelines.
Storytailor® (JQ Sirls) – Storytailor is a dynamic storytelling platform that adapts in real time to a child’s emotional state, helping families, educators, therapists, and caregivers deliver tailored support and encouragement exactly when children need it most — whether soothing tough moments or celebrating silly ones.
Now in its 10th year, Pure Pitch Rally has supported more than 80 startups, helping raise millions in follow-on capital and create thousands of jobs across the KC metro. This one-of-a-kind pitch event continues to prove that when Kansas City rallies behind its founders, the results are transformational.
Special thanks to our presenting sponsors Circle Sideways, Fenaroli & Associates, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Forvis Mazars US, nbkc bank, and Polsinelli, and supporting sponsors Digital Health KC, KC Digital Drive, Lathrop GPM LLP, Morningstar Communications, Network Kansas, and Stinson LLP for making this milestone year possible.
Tune in October 27. The future of Kansas City innovation is on stage.
