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1 week ago | startlandnews.com | Joyce Smith

St. Louis cult favorite — gooey butter cake — serves as the springboard for a new Kansas City bakery … with a twist. It also sells gooey butter cookies. “Gooey butter cake is a St. Louis tradition. It’s where I’m from and we have the family recipe,” said Tennille Lampe, founder of Oh My Gooey KC, which recently opened its 11119 N. Oak Trafficway specialty bakery to retail customers. “I think it is pretty rich, indulgent with a melt-in-your-mouth texture.

1 week ago | startlandnews.com | Nikki Overfelt Chifalu

The Ideem team has a clear vision for how to make two-factor authentication easy and invisible for users, serial tech entrepreneur Toby Rush said, noting an early investment round will help the rapidly emerging startup double-down. Ideem announced a $2.4 million seed round Tuesday, backed by Sovereign’s Capital, Quona Capital, Everywhere Ventures, Hustle Fund, Oread Angels, Network Kansas, and a group of strategic angels.

1 week ago | startlandnews.com | Nikki Overfelt Chifalu

Kansas City’s high-profile South Loop Project — a proposed sustainable urban park capping a portion of I-670 — now has a name that pays homage to a leader who played a key role in launching the project: Roy Blunt Luminary Park. “As a working title, the South Loop Project has served us well,” said Jeff Jones, H&R Block president and CEO and co-chair of the South Loop campaign.

1 week ago | startlandnews.com | Nikki Overfelt Chifalu

The Morgans — the family behind Marknology, a bootstrapped digital marketing firm specializing in Amazon sales — are taking a dog supplement brand that they built as a client to the next level now as owners, they shared. Waggedy — veterinarian-formulated supplements to keep dogs healthy and active, launched by Ben Bellinson in 2015 in Ashland, Oregon — was one of Kansas City-based Marknology’s first clients.

2 weeks ago | startlandnews.com | Nikki Overfelt Chifalu

The Patterson Family Foundation is committed to helping rural communities in Kansas and western Missouri thrive, said Chris Harris, noting the foundation’s new grantmaking strategy expands that access more broadly across its priority region. The Kansas City-based Patterson Family Foundation — founded in 2007 by Neal Patterson, the late Cerner CEO and co-founder, and his wife, Jeanne — launched its 2025 grants at the beginning of April.