Company spotlights
Emerging founders, new launches, funding signals, pilots, and category shifts across Missouri.
Innovation Reports
Quarterly data on Missouri startups and hiring.
Roots reports will combine platform signal, founder interviews, company spotlights, state filings, hiring patterns, and partner insight into a report on Missouri startups.
Talent movement
Where technical, university, executive, and founder talent is moving.
Partner insight
What companies are seeing in AI, procurement, operations, labor, healthcare, logistics, agtech, and more.
Founding partners see the report first.
Partner companies get early access, quote opportunities, interview opportunities, and private briefings before public release.
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Roots is built by Redbud VC — the early-stage fund founded in Columbia, Missouri, by the team behind EquipmentShare.
Roots is built by Redbud VC — the early-stage fund founded in Columbia, Missouri, by the team behind EquipmentShare (top-25 YC and Nasdaq-listed $EQPT).
Roots is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
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