AltCap is thrilled to introduce the 2024 AltCap Your Biz Pitch Competition Top 10 finalists! This year’s applicants showcased the incredible talent, passion, and innovative spirit of Kansas City’s entrepreneurial community. Our judges spent hours deliberating over the inspiring submissions from dozens of entrepreneurs in the Kansas City area.  

AltCap and Strawberry Swing teamed up for the Emerging Makers Showcase Competition, featuring 10 local artisans who were judged on merchandising, branding, marketing, customer interaction, and product quality. Top prizes were awarded to three makers.

The AltCap Your Biz Pitch Competition returns for its ninth year, offering over $40,000 in cash prizes to KC entrepreneurs. Applications open Sept. 16, with a live pitch event on Nov. 20 at Union Station.

AltCap, an impact-focused small business lender, is proud to launch the Building Prosperity Initiative to create more pathways for contractors who are minorities, women, and other disadvantaged professionals.

AltCap, a impact-focused small business lender, is excited to share the addition of two key team members that will help grow our mission across the Heartland.

Graduates of Pawsperity’s pet grooming training programs are now eligible to apply for RISE Microloans to launch or grow their businesses.

AltCap is proud to announce the 2023 AltCap Your Biz Pitch Competition Top 10 finalists! 

AltCap, an impact-focused small business lender, is excited to share the promotion of two staff members that will help advance its mission of strengthening communities through accessible capital.

AltCap’s Revenue-Based Financing not only provides businesses with the capital they need to grow — it also adapts to their performance, ensuring a loan payment isn’t overly burdensome to the entrepreneur.

The SBA Community Advantage program helps impact-driven lenders like AltCap to provide partially-guaranteed loans to new businesses, firms in low- to moderate-income communities, and companies with most of their workforces living in low-income census tracts.

Liberty Bank and Trust announced a partnership to provide a $5 million financing facility to AltCap, an impact-focused small business lender, to support its efforts of increasing access to capital for entrepreneurs of color and minority-controlled businesses in Texas.

AltCap, an impact-focused small business lender, is pleased to announce the hiring of Patty Becker as its first Vice President of Operations.

Etsy awarded AltCap, an impact-focused small business lender, a $500,000 grant to provide $1,000 to $10,000 loans through the ARTcap Microloan Fund to artists and creative entrepreneurs in Kansas, Missouri and Texas.

AltCap, a mission-driven small business lender, is expanding its geographic footprint to make capital more accessible for entrepreneurs in Missouri, Kansas, Texas, and Colorado.

AltCap and the Rotary Club of Kansas City-Plaza are launching an economic equity program to provide microloans to fledgling entrepreneurs who are completing training with The Sewing Labs.

AltCap and the Carolina Small Business Development Fund (CSBDF) are proud to share a new theoretical framework to help community development financial institutions (CDFIs) better evaluate their impact.

After an afternoon of impressive pitches that displayed each business's story, mission, and potential, were thrilled to announce that Diversity Telehealth, founded by Dr. Shelley Cooper, is the 2022 AltCap Your Biz Champion.

Meet AltCap's Director of Tax Credit Financing and Consulting Services, Michael Bland. With the addition of Bland, AltCap is offering comprehensive New Markets Tax Credit Consulting Services to businesses, real estate developers, and non-profit organizations.

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The Kansas City region (Metro KC) has a rich set of support resources for its entrepreneurial community: it has many lending institutions providing financing to small businesses and several technical assistance providers serving small-business owners. However, the region still has ample room to develop in terms of connecting entrepreneurs—particularly the smallest ones and those in historically underserved communities—to the capital and support they need to launch and grow their enterprises.
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