Local startup FormZapper has been accepted into SixThirty, a St. Louis-based accelerator program for financial technology. FormZapper, which was profiled in Thinking Bigger Business earlier this year, has built an online document-management platform called LendingStandard for commercial lenders and real-estate lawyers, making it easier for them to collaborate. “We are particularly pleased to have been accepted into SixThirty’s second class, which includes a significant round of seed funding,” said Andy…
Here’s an entrepreneurial recipe: Start with three existing gourmet food-product businesses, add a common goal and mix well under one roof. The result is Flavor Trade, a new Kansas City gourmet food manufacturing company that combines the enterprises of Nina Ward, owner of KC Classic Gourmet Foods; Shannon Kimball, owner of FireBug Grill’n Sauce, and Ron Rupp, owner of RQ Barbecue restaurant in the Chicago area and its sauces. “We’re…