DigiRace gives fans an inside look into short-track auto racing. Believing that mainstream news media often overlook local and regional speedways, co-founders/partners Seth Meinzen and Steve Meinzen, created DigiRace to provide fans of middle-tier auto racing with a real-time media option.

The technology company’s system captures racing broadcasts with a GPS-based tracking system. Spectators have an aerial, bird’s-eye view of a race as icons representing each racer or team move through the course in REAL TIME. The software updates every second and provides statistical data – including the racer’s speed, the race time elapsed, and the finishing time and placement.

It delivers the exact position, speed, and timing for all racecars. Every fan can see every race from anywhere with the DigiRace broadcasts online and to mobile phones.

A skilled entrepreneurial networker, Meinzen has used the services of several KCSourceLink network resource partners, including the UMKC SBTDC and the SBTDC at the University of Central Missouri. He participated in the Kauffman Foundation’s FastTrac TechVenture program in the fall of 2007.

Meinzen also participated as a judge in UMKC’s Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation’s Enterprise Development Lab, and presented DigiRace to the InvestMidwest Venture Capital Forum in April, 2007. He serves on the board of directors for another KCSourceLink resource partner, the Small & Home Business Connection (SHBC).

These collaborative resources provided Meinzen valuable help with the management decisions needed to establish his business. But, he still lacked the financial component vital to the successful development of DigiRace.

Then he attended the KCSourceLink Entrepreneurs Happy Hour and met the person he had been looking for - a DigiRace angel investor.

The monthly Happy Hour event offers networking opportunities to speed the formation and growth of life sciences and technology-based businesses in the KC region.

“KCSourceLink, its network partners and its associates helped me understand the investment community. In addition, KCSourceLink provided an opportunity for me to connect with the angel investor that I needed.

In addition to the two founding partners, DigiRace has three part-time employees and one full-time employee. The company has had a successful pre-launch, is about to open its series A round of investments, and has set March, 2008 as its tentative launch date.

Submit inquiries to seth@digirace.com. The company’s website is www.digirace.com.