Manhattan Holdings — a regional seed capital investment fund invests in seed and early-stage technology-based companies.
Wichita Technology Ventures — a seed capital fund, provides seed and early-stage financing for promising new technologies with commercialization potential.
Prairie Investments for Technology Advancement (PITA) — a Kansas for-profit seed capital company providing equity risk capital to technology-based ventures with the potential for high growth and significant returns on investment.
Milestone Ventures, LLC — founded in 1998, is a seed capital fund focused on seed and early stage technology-based businesses.
K-State Angels — K-State Angels is a national network of accredited investors devoted to investing in seed and early-stage, technology-based companies.
Mid America Angels — Mid-America Angels("MAA") is a regional network of accredited investors dedicated to identifying and funding the most promising early stage companies in the Kansas-Missouri region.
Midwest Venture Alliance — Midwest Venture Alliance (MVA), including its affiliate, the Southeast Kansas Venture Alliance (SEKVA), is a network of accredited investors committed to investing in high-growth seed and early-stage technology companies in Kansas and surrounding states.
Kansas Angels Tax Credit — This state-wide program enables accredited angel investors to qualify for the Kansas Angel Investor Tax Credit, a 50% tax credit on their cash investment of up to $50,000, in a certified Kansas business.
Great Plains Capital Conference — the Great Plains Capital Conference brings together the region's technology leaders, entrepreneurs and angel investors for presentations by eight to ten emerging businesses seeking funding. Presenting companies are seeking venture capital from several hundred thousand to $5 million each.
Invest Midwest — This annual conference facilitates the investment in the regions top companies in life sciences, technology, and alternative energy. The conference regularly experiences more than 300 attendees and has helped generate over $300 million in investment in the past 8 years.
Open Prairie Ventures — an early-stage venture capital firm investing in promising growth technology companies that are disciplined in efficient capital and disruptive innovations.
Koch Genesis — an entrepreneur-centric firm providing direct capital investments in early-stage companies with substantial, revolutionary ideas. They are interested in companies that can create new markets, displace industry incumbents, and generate significant returns.
October Capital — a private equity firm, founded in 1999, based in Kansas City, Kansas.
Kansas Venture Capital — a licensed SBIC that provides equity and mezzanine capital to small and middle market, Midwestern companies that have the potential for significant growth and long-term equity appreciation.
Applied Research Matching Fund — This fund provides equity or royalty investments to companies focused on product/technology development.
Technology Commercialization Seed Fund — This fund emphasizes technology commercialization and provides equity or royalty investments in companies that have developed technology products or processes and are ready to commercialize it.
KTEC Holding Investment Fund — KTEC utilizes its KTEC Holdings Investment account to augment other programs. Any company receiving monies from another KTEC program, may apply for additional funding through this fund.
Proof of Concept — The KTEC Proof of Concept program aims to bridge the funding gap that often impedes advancement of innovation that has progressed beyond candidacy for federal funding of basic research but is not yet ripe for commercial seed funding by typical angel or venture investors.
Heartland BioVentures — the Kansas Bioscience Authority's business-assistance program designed to facilitate risk capital investment in Kansas bioscience companies. The principle goal of Heartland BioVentures is to provide assistance and pre-venture financing to early stage bioscience firms to fundamentally address business, technology, management and other strategic issues critical to their success and, thus, improve their access to venture capital, i.e. make them "venture ready."
Startup Kansas — StartUp Kansas has been established to provide support in obtaining seed capital funding for Kansas entrepreneurs who are starting a business or want to grow their existing business.