ScaleUP! Kansas City has announced its fourth cohort of 17 companies which will take part in its program. The program aims to help Kansas City entrepreneurs and small businesses grow to $1 million in revenue. This next group of small businesses represent a wide range of industries in Kansas City, from architecture to manufacturing, to healthcare and more.   ScaleUP! works with Kansas City entrepreneurs that need the support to rise…

Bio-Microbics of Shawnee has been awarded the highest recognition any U.S. business can receive for its exporting efforts. U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker presented the company with the President’s “E Star” Award for Exports. Bio-Microbics, the only Kansas company to be awarded this honor this year, was one of 21 other national companies to meet the eight-year export growth threshold.   “The ‘E’ Awards Committee was very impressed with…