Led by CEO Tim Sylvester, Integrated Roadways’ tech could transform the world as we know it, while simultaneously creating thousands of area jobs. With an established B2C channel and a B2B play with significant upside - not to mention a seemingly endless supply of adorable marketing content - 2017 is looking good for FitBark. As more dog owners around the globe use FitBark’s activity tracker, more data becomes available for the company to sell to third parties or use in clinical settings. With its consumer product firmly established as the wearable for dogs, FitBark is entering exciting new territory that should allow it to significantly grow through partnerships. What’s more, CEO Jason Tatge isn’t focused on a quick sale - he’s determined to see Farmobile become the data company changing how farmers feed and fuel the world. Led by a team with deep ag experience, Farmobile has created a truly disruptive piece of tech that empowers farmers, which is driving its traction. The company’s hardware - a passive uplink connection (PUC) - continues to gain recognition in the industry and is now being distributed by AGCO, a publically-traded, worldwide manufacturer of agricultural equipment. All data collected is owned by the farmer, who decides either to keep the information private, share it or sell to interested third parties. The firm has a massive opportunity with its agronomy hardware and software that together collect and present valuable farming data. Despite that, there’s historically been a void when it comes to a simple data collection tool that creates value for the farmer - that is until Farmobile launched. Kansas City is in the midst of watching one of its next great success stories take flight.įounders: Chris Costello, Kevin Conard and Randy AufDerHeideĪgriculture is a more than trillion-dollar industry that employs millions around the globe. Now on the on Forbes Fintech 50 list for two years running, C2FO’s consistent traction in the last year has allowed it to expand further into Europe and Asia, including Austria, the Netherlands, Taiwan, China, India and Hong Kong. As we previously reported, more than $1 billion per week travels through C2FO’s working capital trading platform. It’s not a sexy, consumer-facing product, but, simply put, the platform is transforming how some of the largest companies in the world are conducting business. Led by Sandy Kemper, the company created an online marketplace where buyers can negotiate with suppliers, earning quicker payments in exchange for discounts to free up cash that would be stuck in accounts receivable. Without further ado, here are Startland’s top startups to watch in 2017.Ĭ2FO is without a doubt one of Kansas City’s most disruptive companies. Rather, this is a list of the area’s most promising companies that we feel are best positioned to have banner years in 2017. It’s also not to say that the local firms that do not appear on this list aren’t or won’t be successful. To be clear, this isn’t an apples-to-apples list of what Kansas City startups are making the most money. ![]() ![]() We arrived at this top ten ranking by evaluating each company’s team, current traction, potential to create jobs, societal and industry-specific disruptiveness and likelihood to create major news in 2017. The Startland team spent upwards of 20 hours assessing more than 40 Kansas City startups. And to enumerate some of those companies, Startland News refreshed its annual list of top startups to watch. While undoubtedly a triumph, EyeVerify is but one of many Kansas City startups with the potential to make similar, jaw-dropping headlines. It validates that not only building a wildly lucrative business is possible but also that the area community can help make it possible. Stories like this bring Kansas City’s potential to the foreground. Kansas City witnessed one of its biggest startup successes in 2016 with EyeVerify’s massive exit.
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