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Member Profile: Greg Giefer of DARI Motion
DARI Motion uses a constellation of high-speed, high-definition cameras instead of markers, hence “markerless”, to record their subjects' movements. The data feeds into proprietary software in real-time, which compares their moves against a vast trove of human movement data. The software generates a report that shows how the subject’s movement compares against the field. One DARI Motion capture system can easily collect up to 75 subjects in an 8-hour day, which makes the process scalable. It used to take six months to collect biomechanical data like this; DARI does it in minutes.
Kansas Micro-Internship Program
Groover Labs is excited to share the Kansas Micro-Internship Program with you. Through this program, Kansas-based companies and organizations can receive grant funding for Micro-Internship opportunities as long as the selected student is enrolled in a Kansas public college or university. Micro-Internships are short-term, paid, professional assignments that take place in all areas of an organization. These projects can be completed remotely on a year-round basis and typically range from 5 to 40 hours of work. Projects are typically due within a month of kick-off and provide your busy team with immediate support on short-term tasks.
QuickHire in the news (again)!
The QuickHire team has secured new funding and hired a new chief technology officer. Read more about these exciting developments in the Wichita Business Journal.
KingFit's Miguel Johns Named to 2021 Pipeline Fellowship Class
Congrats to Groover Labs member Miguel Johns, founder and CEO of KingFit, for being named to the 2021 class of Pipeline Fellows. Each year, Pipeline selects a group of high-growth entrepreneurs to join a yearlong fellowship from across the Midwest. The Fellowship year is defined by four, three-day modules focused on topics such as business models, financials, finding your customer, and much more. The goal of these modules is to help our entrepreneurs grow their companies and provide them with expert advice from our panel of national advisors and mentors.
KWCH Features Groover Labs and FlagshipKansas.Tech
Check out KWCH reporter and anchor Lily Wu’s latest #BuildingYou segment about the focus on the tech sector in both Wichita and Kansas. Hear from our co-founders about their mission to help foster a healthy tech startup ecosystem in Wichita and from FlagshipKansas.Tech executive director (and Groover Labs member) Ashley Scheidemann about retaining and bringing in tech talent to Kansas. Watch the story here on KWCH.com or on Lily Wu’s Facebook page embedded in the post..
Member Interview with Kate Van Steenhuyse
Kate Van Steenhuyse is the point of contact for the South Central and Southwestern Kansas regions for the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission. She joined Groover Labs’ dedicated desks and has become part of our community. I connected with Kate last week over Zoom to learn about her work.
Members in the News: QuickHire (Forbes)
When COVID-19 began raging in the U.S., Deborah Gladney was pregnant and working two jobs, while raising two children under five. Her sister, Angela Muhwezi-Hall, was in the hospital with the virus. The last thing you’d expect these sisters to do was start a business – which is what they did.
Members in the News: FlagshipKansas.Tech
FlagshipKansas.Tech joins Groover Labs. It makes sense, since its founders share the organization’s passion for technology, Wichita and Kansas. Groover Labs is a non-profit whose mission is to foster growth in the startup community by providing a location where entrepreneurs can share ideas.
Welcome New Members: QuickHire
Sisters Angela and Deborah founded QuickHire earlier this year during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. QuickHire is an app that applies swipe-based features to connect job seekers with available jobs in industries like delivery, grocers, and manufacturers.
Welcome New Members: Kansas Global Trade Services
Kansas Global Trade Services joined Wichita coworking space Groover Labs in September. Rethinking their traditional office environment gave them increased flexibility, and moving to Groover Labs was a natural fit.
Member News: FlagshipKansas.Tech
Ashley Scheideman has begun duties as executive director at FlagshipKansas.Tech, the Wichita nonprofit supporting technology companies through innovation and awareness.
Update from Groover Labs about coronavirus
Groover Labs is closed until further notice to anyone who is not a member. We are actively looking for ways to apply our makerspace equipment to deliver critically needed resources such as surgical masks and face shields.
devICT: Hacking for a good cause — encouraging people to vote
Groover Labs coworking members devICT, a community of developers, recently sponsored a two-day Civic Tech Hackathon at Groover Labs to work on voteICT.org.
Black Anvil helps businesses with cybersecurity standards
Black Anvil, LLC is a Wichita company working out of a private office at Groover Labs. It helps businesses navigate cybersecurity standards for the U.S. Department of Defense.
Appointment Launch lifts off in Wichita
When people are sick, one of the last things they want to do is fill out yet another clipboard at the doctor’s office. Appointment Launch is looking to solve that problem and give health care providers more time with their patients.
Member Minute with Dave Cunningham of Flint Hills Group
One of our first members, Dave Cunningham, founded Flint Hills Group in 2016. The company builds custom software solutions to help scale businesses.
FlagshipKansas.Tech christens our event hall
FlagshipKansas.Tech christened our 275-person event hall Oct. 16 with its “Scaling Up Tech” event. The organization’s mission aligns well with Groover Labs’ own — to fuel collaboration and product development.
Groover Labs to house WSU ShiftSpace
Groover Labs has signed a lease to house WSU ShiftSpace at its 42,000-square-foot technology hub opening at Third and St. Francis in Wichita.