PlanIT Impact has nearly reached its goal for $500,000 in its latest funding round, which will allow it to increase its staff. The startup’s funding to date totals $1.3 million. The platform, aimed at the AEC industry, uses cost data and a building’s energy, water and stormwater performance to help guide decisions on [...]
MatchRite Care has been accepted to Digital Sandbox KC at a crucial moment for the tech startup, which allows consumers to access, store and manage health care records from multiple providers on one platform. “Because we are in the ‘new normal’ of the COVID-19 era, it is a necessity for patients to have [...]
TheraWe, a health tech startup offering a HIPAA-compliant mobile video platform to close communication gaps between a child’s therapists and parents, announced its acquisition in June 2020, less than two years after its founder, Kirby Montgomery, pitched at Pure Pitch Rally. The remote parent engagement platform was especially attractive to buyer Rethink Autism [...]
Neer, formerly Blockchain Water, was accepted into a Wisconsin-based accelerator program that provides a $100,000 capital injection. The company, a member of the 2019 Pure Pitch Rally cohort, provides a water management platform powered by artificial intelligence. It will join gener8tor’s flagship accelerator. Founder Elango Thevar’s connection with water systems began in his [...]
Stenovate, an alumnus of the 2018 Pure Pitch Rally cohort, announced an investment from the Fountain Innovation Fund in early 2020 that would help drive development of its platform. The legal tech startup provides a platform to simplify communications, file sharing and project management for court reporters, scopists and proofreaders. Its founder, Lauren [...]
According to new research from the Boston Consulting Group, closing the gender funding pay gap for entrepreneurs could pay off for the economy. The study says startups founded or co-founded by women generated 10 percent higher cumulative revenue over a five-year period compared with startups founded by men. But in 2018, woman-founded companies averaged $935,000 [...]
Initiatives that make up the U.S. startup economy may be small in scale, but they are large in number, increasingly diverse, and widely dispersed. Given the startup slump the economy has been experiencing during the past few years, we set out to identify where in the country entrepreneurs might find the best conditions for growing their [...]
PayIt, an alumnus of the inaugural Pure Pitch Rally cohort in 2016, parlayed its perfected pitch into a sizeable investment. Insight Partners, a New York-based venture capital and private equity firm, provided a capital injection of more than $100 million in March 2019. PayIt, led by CEO John Thompson, is a govtech solution [...]
TicketRx announced its sale to an Overland Park, Kan., company less than two years after pitching at the 2017 Pure Pitch Rally. The mobile app makes it easier for out-of-state commercial drivers to clear up citations by pairing them with local attorneys. It was acquired by MSTS, a global payments and credit solutions [...]