By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA Our neighbors to the north in Kentucky have big plans for next month with a virtual, low cost, three-day gathering of individuals who are inventors, others who are entrepreneurs, and those who enjoy both sides of the equation. “InventorCon 21” is an offering

Oracle Corporation plans to bring 8,500 jobs and a $1.2 billion investment to fast-growing Nashville, a deal Mayor John Cooper’s office announced Wednesday as unprecedented in the history of Tennessee economic development projects. And, while his office did not say this, the ripples or ramifications should spread across the region

The Nashville Entrepreneur Center is recruiting companies for the next edition of its “Project Healthcare” accelerator. According to the announcement, the Center is seeking teams innovating within Software-as-a-Service, devices, services, and patient experience with a particular focus on: (1) augmented and virtual reality training solutions for the healthcare workforce; (2)

The year of the pandemic – 2020 if you somehow forgot or wished it had gone away – turned out to be the second biggest year for venture capital in history with funds deploying $141.9 billion in investments in 2020. During the recent  the “MIT Sloan Investment Conference” and  “MIT

In its own words, national media organization TechCrunch “is on the hunt for game-changing and ground-breaking start-ups from around the globe to feature in ‘Startup Battlefield’ during ‘TechCrunch Disrupt 2021‘ this fall.” The news organization says that those accepted will compete for a $100,000 equity-free prize, the eyes of investors

A wife and husband, both alumni of Penn State University, have made a $125,000 gift to the institution to endow an annual 13-week bootcamp for entrepreneurs focused on products or services designed to positively impact the lives of people with disabilities. The “Summer Founders” program also received a corresponding amount

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the final article of a three-part series on the Proof Incubator in Chattanooga. In the third part of the series, we interviewed restaurant owners in East Tennessee about how the Proof program helped their business.)  By Kailyn Lamb, Marketing Content Writer and Editor, PYA By now,

We last heard about Jace Smith of AltFair Solutions LLC and his app for saving students and prospective employers time at career fairs when we published this update in teknovation.biz last November. Now comes word that he is one of the 10 finalists in tonight’s “Next Top Entrepreneur Competition” hosted by

Chattanooga’s Variable Inc. has been awarded a NASA subcontract to prototype a NASA COVID-19 detection device called the E-Nose. According to this article, humans release unique volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in their breath when they are sick. The new device to be built by Variable could run tests to determine

Here’s an update, courtesy of the latest edition of the monthly newsletter from the University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF), on Sentinel Devices LLC, co-founded by a UT, Knoxville Research Assistant Professor. We first spotlighted the start-up in mid-January in this teknovation.biz post.