This powerful program has a proven track record of sparking innovation, creating jobs, and driving economic development in Kansas. By participating, you’re not just investing in a business—you’re shaping the future of our state and helping build a thriving, resilient innovation ecosystem. Whether you’re ready to make an impact as an investor or launch your vision as an entrepreneur, the KAITC Program is your catalyst for growth and success.
Apply now to become a 2026 Qualified Business through the Kansas Angel Investor Tax Credit Program. Gain access to visionary investors and the resources you need to grow your business. Don’t miss your chance—applications close September 30, 2026!
Albatross Golf, inc. is a golf technology incubator developing indoor golf franchise solutions, performance support services, and a proprietary digital caddie application.
is a SaaS platform delivering AI-enabled reporting, scheduling, and business management tools for home inspectors.
Barrel Chiller, LLC is a defense technology startup developing advanced cooling systems that reduce overheating in automatic weapons, improving safety, accuracy, and equipment lifespan.
BuildNest is a digital platform connecting homeowners, builders, and lenders to streamline the custom homebuilding process through real-time project tracking, budgeting, and communication tools.
UP, operated by WE3 Group, Inc., is a Kansas-based social technology platform focused on youth mental health, offering a curated short-form video experience designed to promote positive and healthy digital engagement.
2Build AI is a software platform using AI to modernize construction plan review and permitting processes for public sector agencies.
Powervox, LLC is an AI-powered voice and conversational software company providing automated receptionist and customer interaction solutions for businesses.
Plainview Beef Co. LLC is a regenerative agriculture company producing grass-fed beef while expanding into wellness and consumer packaged goods through vertically integrated operations.
Enhance Diagnostics, Inc. is developing AI-supported tools that help patients and physicians monitor metabolic and organ disease progression.
InsCyt, LLC is building biometric-based authentication technology to strengthen identity verification and enterprise cybersecurity.
EAR Micro, LLC is a Kansas-based advanced wearable technology company focused on developing ultra-miniaturized “in-ear computers” that combine high-performance audio systems, embedded computing, and advanced sensing technologies.
MedCurate, Inc. is a healthcare technology company operating a dual-sided marketplace designed to modernize and optimize healthcare workforce staffing. Through its cloud-based platform, MedCurate connects healthcare providers directly with healthcare organizations to fill open shifts, reducing reliance on traditional staffing agencies and improving efficiency across the healthcare labor market.
ShipCargo AI Inc. is a Kansas-based technology company developing an AI-powered logistics execution platform designed to modernize vehicle and heavy equipment transport. The company replaces traditional, human-driven brokerage processes with autonomous AI agents that manage quoting, booking, dispatch, tracking, and settlement in a fully integrated workflow.
Myndset is a mobile AI performance coach that turns daily mental training into confidence that holds under pressure. We train a repeatable Pressure Response Operating System (PROS) so athletes can reset fast, regain focus, and execute on demand in the moments that decide outcomes. Performance-first, non-clinical, and built for 5 minute “Mental Reps” that compound over time.
SOFTwarfare, LLC (SOFTwarfare® or “the Company”) is a cybersecurity software manufacturer for authentication and integration software solutions. The Company’s solutions solve cybersecurity use cases in enterprise and SMB businesses.
The Company brings to market a multi-modal biometric multi-factor authentication platform.
OverSite is a Kansas-based healthcare technology company providing a cloud-based software platform that digitizes and standardizes biological sample collection workflows for clinical trials. The platform serves as a real-time system of record connecting clinical trial sites, sponsors, and laboratories, reducing errors, delays, and data reconciliation issues that commonly occur when sample handling is managed through paper forms, spreadsheets, and disconnected systems.
Love Lifesciences LLC is a medical injection device company that has developed and launched UniPen, a patient controlled injection device for compounding pharmacies.
Factory Universe Co. is a market game changer and disrupting Web 3/Mobile App technology, revolutionizing social platforms! Contrasting with competitors, we present an unprecedented, fully incentivized freedom-of-speech space. Integrating a complete social seller’s market, live shopping, and cutting-edge content production, our platform is a one-stop convergence Hub.
Kanpecia is a startup spun out of the University of Kansas that is developing a topically applied alopecia medication, KaB-103. The underlying technology was developed with $2.9m of NIH grants. This company is focused on both Chemotherapy Induced Alopecia (CIA) and the multibillion-dollar Androgenic Alopecia market, as well as the growing markets for eyebrow and eyelash serum.. Kanpecia is a pre-revenue R&D company that has relied on NIH funding for development of the initial molecule, and angel funding for further development.
Surge Holdings Inc is a Kansas-based intelligent infrastructure company developing and deploying a distributed network of Smart Node systems designed to enable real-time sensing, communications, and data processing at the street level.
MedCurate, Inc. is a healthcare technology company operating a dual-sided marketplace designed to modernize and optimize healthcare workforce staffing.
ShipCargo AI Inc. is a Kansas-based technology company developing an AI-powered logistics execution platform designed to modernize vehicle and heavy equipment transport.
Ideem, Inc. is a cybersecurity and authentication technology company developing Passkeys+, a next generation password less authentication platform. The system combines consumer-grade FIDO2 passkeys with Ideem’s patented Zero-Trust Secure Module (ZSM) a FIPS 140-3 certified software authenticator that delivers hardware-grade security entirely in software.
Homezena is a Kansas-based “proptech” startup designed to help people buy and sell homes without traditional real estate agents and the heavy commissions that come with them.
VOISS LLC is an educational technology (EdTech) company headquartered in Lawrence, Kansas, that grew out of a decade of research at the University of Kansas. The company provides a research-backed, immersive learning platform designed to help students, particularly middle schoolers and those with neurodiverse needs like autism spectrum disorder, develop and practice critical social-emotional skills through virtual reality (VR) and extended reality (XR)
Archia is a Kansas-based AI infrastructure company building the secure runtime for deploying AI agents on confidential data. We enable mid-market companies in regulated industries — healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing — to deploy production AI agents without exposing proprietary data or rebuilding their compliance stack.
Barkley Home LLC is an AI-enabled home operations platform redefining how residential properties are managed, maintained, and serviced. Through a centralized mobile ecosystem, real-time coordination infrastructure, predictive maintenance intelligence, automated vendor orchestration, and vertically integrated service networks
Family Handbook, Inc. (doing business as Family Pillars) develops and operates a SaaS platform that helps families create strategic plans for their homes, including family mission statements, vision, values, and actionable goals.
Become an Accredited Investor through the Kansas Angel Investor Tax Credit Program and earn up to a 50% tax credit while supporting the next generation of groundbreaking startups. Registration opens January 1, 2026, and closes November 30, 2026. Don’t miss your opportunity to make an impact!
“The Angel program exists to support small start-up businesses […] we hope it will encourage more start-ups to apply and make it easier for Kansans to invest in promising new businesses.”
Lieutenant Governor / Secretary of Commerce David Toland
Timing of your investment is key! Investments made to a qualified Kansas business prior to written approval of award of tax credits by KDC will not be eligible for tax credits.
An LLC or any other permitted entity investor must provide documentation that demonstrates it was established and is operated for the sole purpose of making investments in other entities per K.S.A. 74-8132(g)
Investment through multiple permitted entities (e.g. LLC-1 to LLC-2 to Qualified Kansas business or Trust to LLC to Qualified Kansas Business) will not be allowed.
All the equity owners or Benefactors of the permitted entity investor must be accredited individual investors.
The qualified Kansas business must maintain its headquarters and qualifying operations in Kansas for a minimum period of five (5) years unless they are a bioscience business then, ten (10) years as required by KSA 74-8136(g) and an agreement between the qualified Kansas business and KDC must be signed prior to issuance of tax credits
Application and Registrations Fees authorized by K.S.A 74-8133(f) and are Nonrefundable
Note: Application review and tax credit certificate issuance requests will not be processed until the associated fees are received by KDC
Investments made to a qualified Kansas business prior to written approval of award of tax credits by KDC will not be eligible for tax credits.
An LLC or any other permitted entity investor must provide documentation that demonstrates it was established and is operated for the sole purpose of making investments in other entities per K.S.A. 74-8132(g)
Investment through multiple permitted entities (e.g. LLC-1 to LLC-2 to Qualified Kansas business or Trust to LLC to Qualified Kansas Business) will not be allowed.
All the equity owners or Benefactors of the permitted entity investor must be accredited individual investors.
The qualified Kansas business must maintain its headquarters and qualifying operations in Kansas for a minimum period of five (5) years unless they are a bioscience business then, ten (10) years as required by KSA 74-8136(g) and an agreement between the qualified Kansas business and KDC must be signed prior to issuance of tax credits
Application and Registrations Fees authorized by K.S.A 74-8133(f) and are Nonrefundable
Application review and tax credit certificate issuance requests will not be processed until the associated fees are received by KDC
$250 Qualified Business Application Fee (companies that apply for designation as a qualified Kansas business)
$150 Investor and Credit Transferee Registration Fee (investors or the transferees of investors requesting the issuance of Kansas tax credit certificates)
$50 Lost Tax Credit Certificate Replacement Fee
KAITC program fees are paid online at the time of Application or Registration. All fees are non-refundable.
*A 2.5% service fee will be applied to online Credit and Debit Card payments (2.5% of the total charge)
**A $1.50 service fee will be applied to ACH payments
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