Figure 1 Figure 2 Slide 2 Kansas stakeholders invest millions to develop these early stage companies only to lose them later due to a lack of seed capital in their home state. These losses represents untold missed opportunities for Kansas. Slide 4 Kansas can reverse these losses and begin building the economy of tomorrow by developing a seed capital infrastructure in Kansas. SB 315 is the necessary catalyst. Slide 5 SB 315 will overcome this barrier to Kansas future development by creating a network of Kansas Capital Companies or CapCo s.
Risk is balanced by state tax credits.
Tax credits can be transferred or sold to a Kansas taxpayer. Slide 27 Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma have passed legislation to encourage investment in early-stage companies. Create Retain Recruit Swiftly and definitively.