Entrepreneurs representing 36 companies from 15 states–including five from the Kansas City area–will present their business cases to prospective investors at next month’s InvestMidwest Venture Capital Forum in Kansas City. The event, hosted at the Westin Kansas City from March 19-20, marks the 20th annual celebration of the forum. InvestMidwest will have entrepreneurs representing three separate business tracks presenting simultaneously: Life Sciences; Technology/General Business, and Food/Agriculture/BioEnergy. While the companies themselves…

Next week, corporate wellness business INDULGE will launch the INTEGRATE kick-off event for HR and business professionals as well as corporate leaders. The event will take place on Thursday, Feb. 28, from 7:30-9:30 a.m. at lululemon on the Country Club Plaza. The program focuses on integrating both work and life to enhance professionals’ wellness and well-being. Learning how to integrate life and work, INDULGE founder Sarah Buchanan says, can have…

Kansas City-based Sphere3 Consulting announced its acquisition by Critical Alert Systems, a nursing software company in Jacksonville, Fla. The agreement between the companies is expected to be finalized near the end of February. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Through the acquisition, Sphere3’s current service-delivery staff will be augmented by Critical Alert’s engineering and operations teams. Sphere3’s CEO, Kourtney Govro, will join the Critical Alert executive team as vice…

Missouri University of Science and Technology has created an entrepreneurial education program for those interested in generating ideas, devices, processes or other intellectual activities. Missouri S&T is first to host an Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Site program in the state. Funded by the National Science Foundation, I-Corps was created to provide business and technical information to rising entrepreneurs and technological innovators. For more than four weeks, participants can gather valuable details from…