Mentees

Loquient provides all-inclusive business technology service and support across the Greater Kansas City area and nationwide. We build long-term relationships based on strategic growth and efficient management of our clients’ information technology infrastructure, software, and assets.

Brain group is a value-add developer and full service broker and manager focused on office and retail assets in the greater Kansas City area. Currently we own/manage over 500K SF of commercial space and have approx. $40M of development in the pipeline.

Natural stone and landscape supply company offering everything natural stone. Products offered include several types of decorative gravel, boulders, cut wall stone, thin veneer, flagstone, top soil, mulch, bagged rock, stone edging, and custom orders.

Advastar is a Kansas City based nationwide recruiting and staffing company. We specialize in supporting clients in the Energy, Engineering, Construction, Manufacturing, and Professional Service industries.

Heartland Macs is an IT department for any size company where a full-time IT person on staff doesn't make financial sense, or for larger companies who know the struggles and importance of keeping an IT person on staff long-term. We build close win/win relationships with our customers and commit ourselves to their immediate and long term goals. Our company specializes in both PCs and Macs, and we can even make the two play nicely together. Our company will do anything IT related for both commercial and residential.

Commercial Flooring Material Sales and Installation

MASS Medical is an American manufacturer of high-quality medical storage products that can be found in leading medical facilities all over the world. Our products can be found in GI Labs, Operating Rooms, Hybrid ORs, Cath, Emergency, Ortho, and all patient procedure areas. The design focus of every product and solution is on nosocomial Infections, protection of valuable medical equipment, and clinician safety. We are a Three-time winner of the Kansas Minority Business Enterprise Manufacturer of the Year (2013, 2014, 2018), Premier Horizons Award winner 2017, Premier Diversity Award 2017 (Honorable Mention), and MedAssets Platinum Supplier Award 2014.

Imagemakers is a custom web development and marketing agency. We specialize in challenging, custom, online software and website development, user experience work and marketing strategy. Founded in 2001.

Angel Competition Bikinis creates competition suits to make women feel confident on stage.

MAKE Digital Group is a Kansas City based full-service digital marketing agency established in 2008 to partner with businesses to craft conversion-focused marketing solutions that drive bottom line growth. As a passionate team of award-winning marketers, designers and developers we deliver the following services: Web Development & Design, Digital Advertising, SEO, Email Marketing & Photo + Video.

We serve growing businesses in the Kansas City metropolitan area by providing business management strategies to assist at various life-stages along the path from entrepreneur to enterprise. We assist business owners and executives in addressing a myriad of concerns growth-oriented businesses face from funding & banking options, budgeting & planning, accounting, payroll & taxes, hiring & HR compliance, scoping IT solutions/service contracts to facilities planning matters. Effectively addressing these issues and concerns change as businesses grow and we develop strategies to address these in ways which best fit the life-stage of a particular business. Businesses well-positioned to benefit from our services include entrepreneurial start-ups to growth-oriented enterprises with up to 100 employees.

RedesignKC is a full service general contractor offering comprehensive design-build services for residential and commercial clients​.

We install, service and maintenance Coca-Cola fountain equipment, Ice machines and other small commercial appliances.

Directory Marketing, Inc. and Digital Marketing Inc., known as DMI, together are an online, print and mobile marketing agency. Directory Marketing, Inc. was founded in 1998 as a national yellow pages sales and marketing agency to represent yellow pages publishers to ad agencies who represent national advertisers. The first 13 years was focused on growing our market share of the directory publishing industry through differentiating ourselves from the competition through aggressive marketing resulting in significant increases in national revenue for our directory publishers. Digital Marketing Inc. was created in 2011 to establish a digital presence to support directory publishers as they began to transition their business to include digital services for their small business customers. Our relationship with directory publishers was tied entirely to and dependent upon print yellow pages up to this point and I wanted to diversify our business and find a way to add new services to our existing client base. If we hadn’t transitioned our business to include turnkey digital marketing fulfillment for directory publishers, our business today would be approximately 25% of what it was in 2008 when the decline began to happen in the yellow pages. As a result of our transition, we now also offer digital fulfillment services wholesale to media companies, consultants and ad agencies too and have many direct digital services clients in the Kansas City area as well.

We realize dreams and change lives for the better by creating areas that bring families together, by taking outdated and dis-functional spaces and redesigning them with inspiration, purpose, and functionality that is the setting for the gathering of life.

Native Digital is a marketing firm specializing in brand strategy, creative direction and integrated marketing.