The system previously owned 10 of this type of facility, including one in Overland Park.

As part of this year's Top 150 Private Companies List, we've compiled a sub-ranking of how those businesses rate for their importance to the community. We weighed four factors equally in devising our Top 150 MVP Index.

Although the information on our List is impressive enough — revenue, ownership and leadership for almost 450 area companies — we gathered additional useful facts and figures on the participating businesses.

Here's an opportunity to hear from six executives leading companies that appear on KCBJ's Top 150 Private Companies List. These vignettes help give a sense of the companies' growth, challenges and successes.

"We've been more than reasonable and understanding over the years and it is now up to (the Mission Gateway developer) to keep its end of the bargain," Mayor Sollie Flora said in a Monday release. "We're well past the time for excuses from the developer."

Mylo's previous minority investor is now the Kansas City-based digital insurance broker's majority investor. Launched in 2015, the startup represented one of the biggest forays Lockton has taken into tech-enabled direct sales.