We’re hosting a Zoom webinar on Thursday, August 27, at 10 a.m. CT. During the virtual event, we’ll walk you through the Accelerating Concept to Commercialization, or ACCEL-KS, proof of concept grant program in partnership with the Kansas Department of Commerce.
Grace Heritage Farms, run by Sarah Easdon in East Central Kansas, is building virtual fencing for regenerative goat grazing. Rotational grazing keeps land and livestock healthy, but today it means physically dragging fence, which is slow and labor-intensive. Sarah's system puts a GPS collar on each goat that beeps near a set boundary and corrects it if the goat crosses.
Meet Sophia Drouhard, Venture Investment Manager at Network Kansas! You’ll find her at Groover Labs in the mornings during Open Coworking on Wednesdays. We interviewed her to learn more about her and the work she does with Network Kansas.
We’re opening applications for the second year of Accelerating Concept to Commercialization in Kansas, or ACCEL-KS, our proof-of-concept grant program in partnership with the Kansas Department of Commerce. If you’re a Kansas founder, and you’re building novel technologies, whether hardware or software, we want to hear from you.
At Groover Labs, we always have a handful of projects and improvements going on. As the Maker Labs and Facilities Manager, Jeremiah Burian, does an excellent job coordinating and managing all those moving parts, it wouldn’t be possible to get everything accomplished without our volunteers. Our volunteers are both experts in their own disciplines and usually looking to grow and improve with new projects. Meet Maker Labs Volunteer, Michael Hogan!
GO ACADEMIX, founded by Jocelyn Powell, is an all-in-one platform for allied health training programs, the schools that train CNAs, CMAs, phlebotomists, and licensed nurses. These programs usually juggle disconnected tools for enrollment, learning management, and certification tracking. GO ACADEMIX combines all of that, plus scheduling and compliance, in one connected system.
Planetary Talent, co-founded by Jacob Schlittenhardt, is reimagining the hiring process. Instead of a job posting, an employer shares its raw thinking about the hire they need; the platform builds a model of the ideal candidate and runs targeted ads to find them. Applicants get a model too, built around their story, and the two compare notes before a human sees a shortlist.
Ask Lucille, a product of the Lucille Group founded by Andrea Amaro, solves this by using AI image recognition to quickly inventory a whole home, capturing and valuing belongings before a claim ever happens. After a catastrophe, many homeowners and renters can lose out on tens of thousands of dollars from lacking documentation on household items.
Meet Maker Labs Volunteer, Tom McGuire! At Groover Labs, we always have a handful of projects and improvements going on. As the Maker Labs and Facilities Manager, Jeremiah Burian does an excellent job coordinating and managing all those moving parts, but it wouldn’t be possible to get everything accomplished without our volunteers.
Tacit Technologies, founded by Rye Kennedy, makes Jitterbug, a device that helps wind farm owners decrease maintenance costs by up to 30 percent. Jitterbug identifies the early signs that a wind turbine is failing, so operators can plan repairs before a breakdown.
