We added a new pod of desks, and we made them in the Maker Labs. Over the past few months, we’ve added a lot of new members, so we needed create some more space.
Our hotseats are the easiest and most affordable membership level we offer on a month-to-month basis. But what are they? Hotseats are open-area workstations that are available to members and day pass users on a first-come, first-served basis. They don’t have permanent owners and cannot be formally reserved.
Longtime Groover Labs member and Flint Hills Group founder Dave Cunningham launched the Whiskey Shelf app at the beginning of 2023. In February, the app went live on the App Store and Google Play. Read the latest updates about what Dave and his team are up to, how they came up with Whiskey Shelf (including experience with Campfire), and more!
We are thrilled to receive funding from the Building a Stronger Economy (BASE) 2.0 economic development grant for our CyberLink Infrastructure Expansion Project. BASE funds are intended to address infrastructure and economic development needs, and our grant award will allow us to continue critical projects we had to cancel or delay because of the Covid-19 global pandemic.
Read a Washington Post article published on July 27 about changes in the workforce, and specifically, the service industry workforce. The article features Groover Labs members Deborah Gladney and Angela Angela Muhwezi-Hall and their tech startup QuickHire, a mobile job search platform directed at the service industry. Visit their website here. Read other stories about QuickHire here and here.
DARI Motion uses a constellation of high-speed, high-definition cameras instead of markers, hence “markerless”, to record their subjects' movements. The data feeds into proprietary software in real-time, which compares their moves against a vast trove of human movement data. The software generates a report that shows how the subject’s movement compares against the field. One DARI Motion capture system can easily collect up to 75 subjects in an 8-hour day, which makes the process scalable. It used to take six months to collect biomechanical data like this; DARI does it in minutes.
Groover Labs is excited to share the Kansas Micro-Internship Program with you. Through this program, Kansas-based companies and organizations can receive grant funding for Micro-Internship opportunities as long as the selected student is enrolled in a Kansas public college or university. Micro-Internships are short-term, paid, professional assignments that take place in all areas of an organization. These projects can be completed remotely on a year-round basis and typically range from 5 to 40 hours of work. Projects are typically due within a month of kick-off and provide your busy team with immediate support on short-term tasks.
The QuickHire team has secured new funding and hired a new chief technology officer. Read more about these exciting developments in the Wichita Business Journal.
Congrats to Groover Labs member Miguel Johns, founder and CEO of KingFit, for being named to the 2021 class of Pipeline Fellows. Each year, Pipeline selects a group of high-growth entrepreneurs to join a yearlong fellowship from across the Midwest. The Fellowship year is defined by four, three-day modules focused on topics such as business models, financials, finding your customer, and much more. The goal of these modules is to help our entrepreneurs grow their companies and provide them with expert advice from our panel of national advisors and mentors.
Check out KWCH reporter and anchor Lily Wu’s latest #BuildingYou segment about the focus on the tech sector in both Wichita and Kansas. Hear from our co-founders about their mission to help foster a healthy tech startup ecosystem in Wichita and from FlagshipKansas.Tech executive director (and Groover Labs member) Ashley Scheidemann about retaining and bringing in tech talent to Kansas. Watch the story here on KWCH.com or on Lily Wu’s Facebook page embedded in the post..
Last Friday our co-founders Curt and Tracy sat down with Brandon Paulseen of ICTPodcast to discuss Groover Labs, Wichita, technology, and the local startup ecosystem.
Click here to listen on Apple Podcasts.
Kate Van Steenhuyse is the point of contact for the South Central and Southwestern Kansas regions for the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission. She joined Groover Labs’ dedicated desks and has become part of our community. I connected with Kate last week over Zoom to learn about her work.
When COVID-19 began raging in the U.S., Deborah Gladney was pregnant and working two jobs, while raising two children under five. Her sister, Angela Muhwezi-Hall, was in the hospital with the virus. The last thing you’d expect these sisters to do was start a business – which is what they did.
FlagshipKansas.Tech joins Groover Labs. It makes sense, since its founders share the organization’s passion for technology, Wichita and Kansas. Groover Labs is a non-profit whose mission is to foster growth in the startup community by providing a location where entrepreneurs can share ideas.
