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Blueprint Intelligence / Specialized Pathways / Kansas SSBCI venture capital, GrowKS direct, angel, and multi-fund routes
Specialized Pathways
NetworkKansas runs GrowKS as three equity routes, investing directly, supporting angel rounds, and committing as a limited partner to Kansas venture funds.
Kansas places its SSBCI equity through NetworkKansas, which administers the state's equity programs under the GrowKS name. GrowKS is not one instrument. It includes direct equity, community equity, and multi-fund venture participation, and the applicant is a company in some of those routes and a fund manager in another. Every route expects private capital alongside the state's.
Direct equity, community equity, and multi-fund venture participation sit under one program name but reach different recipients. Reading GrowKS as a single product is the most common way to prepare for the wrong conversation.
The multi-fund program invests as a limited partner in Kansas-headquartered venture funds that themselves invest at pre-seed, seed, and Series A stages. That makes the applicant a manager rather than a company, and the questions fund-level ones.
The direct route provides preferred equity or convertible debt alongside private capital. Direct investments range from $50,000 to $1 million, with an average first round of approximately $1 million.
GrowKS Angel Capital Support typically invests $50,000 to $250,000 initially and $50,000 to $150,000 in follow-on funding, so a company should know which of the two it is actually approaching before it presents a round.
Co-investors are required. Qualifying co-investors may include angels, angel funds, venture funds, personal investors, and friends or family, so the requirement is about private capital rather than about institutional capital specifically.
Public loans and grants do not count as the required private co-investment. A company that has assembled its round from public sources has not met the test, which is worth checking before an application rather than during one.
Kansas requires private co-investment for its GrowKS equity, and it is specific about the source: public loans and grants do not count toward it.
Source check recorded: August 2, 2026.
Use this guide to prepare the conversation, then confirm current terms with the program administrator. Eligibility, investment limits and application windows can change after the recorded source date.
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