{"id":2414,"date":"2016-04-04T18:06:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T12:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/?p=2414"},"modified":"2016-04-04T17:15:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T11:45:22","slug":"new-startups-can-win-500000-funding-wining-launchkc-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/?p=2414","title":{"rendered":"New Startup&#8217;s can win $500,000 funding by wining LaunchKC competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"modern-quote full\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Launch has a competition for new startups. Once selected the company is ready to fund $500,000.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Startup eco system is a emerging platform. With expansion it also increase the competitive challenges faced by new Startups. Competition can be a good source of funding for new ideas and innovation. At the initial stage ample of startup&#8217;s are unable to locate proper and a regular flow of funding.<\/p>\n<p>Some funder&#8217;s have a different way to provide funding. For example LaunchKC. \u00a0It is ready to offer $500,000 grant as a price in a competition for Startups. The company aim in offering grants to new startups. LaunchKC is a accepting new applications. The application date will end at July 6.There are team of experts who will review the application and shortlist the winners.<\/p>\n<p>Such competition is\u00a0 a fruitful way for startups to enter into market and proving their concept. LaunchKC has held a competition last year also where it received around 500 applicants. Top 10 selected startups receive a non-dilutive grant of $50,000. The grants were offers to startup around the globe.\u00a0 According to \u00a0Mr.David Solomon who leads the competition, the company aim in finding the best tech startups at the growing stage.<\/p>\n<p>The grant offer them a boost to stabilize and further go ahead with bigger findings. With the grant, winner also get a free office space to use for a entire year, professional services, etc. LaunchKC is located in Kansas City, Missouri. Any startup willing to participate can apply through the official website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Takeaways:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LaunchKC offers a $500,000 non-dilutive grant to new startups. Last year 10 winners received a $10,000 grants each.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">The winner gets a few extra benefits like free office space, professional services, legal services, marketing, financial services, etc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launch has a competition for new startups. Once selected the company is ready to fund $500,000. The Startup eco system is a emerging platform. With expansion it also increase the competitive challenges faced by new Startups. Competition can be a good source of funding for new ideas and innovation. At<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[278,21],"tags":[383,38],"class_list":["post-2414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","category-start-up","tag-finance","tag-startups"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/launchkc.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2416,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions\/2416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup-buzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}