{"id":275216,"date":"2026-05-01T23:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/275216\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T23:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:00:10","slug":"mckinney-edc-invests-in-property-tax-advocacy-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/275216\/","title":{"rendered":"McKinney EDC invests in property tax advocacy app"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Andy App<\/a>, a McKinney-based platform specializing in property tax advocacy for Texas homeowners, has found a new investor in the McKinney Economic Development Corp<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s happening?<\/p>\n

The MEDC is investing in the app through its Innovation Fund<\/a>, which offers grants to startup companies in McKinney. The Andy App was founded by McKinney resident Michael Reeves and uses artificial intelligence to assist homeowners in evaluating their assessed property values, according to a news release.<\/p>\n

Michael Kowski, MEDC president and CEO, said in a statement that the app was \u201cexactly the kind of innovation\u201d the corporation was \u201cproud to support\u201d through the Innovation Fund.<\/p>\n

\u201cReeves and his team are taking a complex, often frustrating process and making it simple, accessible, and actionable for everyday homeowners,\u201d Kowski said. \u201cThis is a strong example of how technology can directly improve quality of life for residents while creating scalable business growth right here in McKinney.\u201d<\/p>\n

A closer look<\/p>\n

Homeowners can upload property details, document imperfections and initiate a protest directly from their phone through The Andy App. The app is currently live across Texas with plans to expand to additional states in the future, according to the news release.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve spent years in the property tax space, and one thing became clear\u2014homeowners are often overpaying simply because they don\u2019t know how to fight back,\u201d Reeves said in a statement. \u201cWe built Andy to change that. With just a few taps, homeowners can take control of their property taxes, backed by data, technology, and a team working on their behalf.\u201d<\/p>\n

More information<\/p>\n

The MEDC created the Innovation Fund in 2020<\/a> to offer grants to technology startups. The fund\u2019s primary goal is to encourage companies to open in or relocate to McKinney while leading to job growth.<\/p>\n

Grant types offered by the Innovation Fund include:<\/p>\n

Growth: a grant of up to $200,000 to support early-stage technology startupsExpansion: a grant of up to $500,000 for startups seeing rapid growthRecruitment: a grant of up to $500,000 for startups that relocate their primary headquarters facilities to McKinneyThe MEDC is funded by a half-cent city sales tax approved by McKinney voters<\/a> in 1993. Funding is used to offer business incentives like the Innovation Fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Andy App, a McKinney-based platform specializing in property tax advocacy for Texas homeowners, has found a new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[67424,101919,67421,67422,160,162,161,101922,67423,101918,101920,101921],"class_list":["post-275216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-business-news-in-mckinney","tag-innovation-fund-in-mckinney","tag-mckinney-economic-development-corp","tag-medc-innovation-fund","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-property-tax-advocacy-apps-for-texas-homeowners","tag-startups-in-mckinney","tag-tech-companies-in-mckinney","tag-the-andy-app","tag-the-andy-app-in-mckinney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}