By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA Tomorrow is another one of those milestone days in the career of Lindsey Cox as she returns home, so to speak, as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Launch Tennessee (LaunchTN). The six-year veteran of the statewide entrepreneur-focused organization left her role as Director…

Knoxville’s SmartRIA®, a leading compliance software platform for Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs), hybrid RIAs and RIA networks, has secured a strategic investment from The Compound Capital Fund I LP. The announcement is the latest good news for the initially bootstrapped local company that we last spotlighted in a two-part teknovation.biz…

A new report from Gusto, a payroll and human resource management company, finds that there has been a continued shift in the face of new business ownership towards women and entrepreneurs of color. For example, 49 percent of entrepreneurs in 2021 were women, a dramatic increase from the 28 percent…

We always enjoy the blogposts from David Cummings, Founder of the Atlanta Tech Village and also Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Atlanta Ventures. Two of his latest ones are short and to the point while painting a great picture and also relate to conversations he overheard. The newest describes the role of…

The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has announced the six teams that will participate in the latest cohort of “Compass,” its deep tech accelerator program for University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory researchers. The program, which is designed for early stage start-ups and technologies,…

By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA It might have been best described as “Let Her Ask” when Catherine Porth and the Let Her Speak nonprofit that she leads hosted two events for women yesterday at the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center (KEC) on Market Square. Both were offered under the “Women’s…

We learned in a recent social media post that a second start-up with ties to the Knoxville-Oak Ridge region just completed one of the “streams” operated by Creative Destruction Labs (CDL). The nonprofit organization describes itself as delivering “an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed stage, science- and technology-based companies.”…

According to this recent article in WRAL TechWire, our neighbors in the Tar Heel state have some big plans when it comes to the next phase of growing North Carolina’s life sciences sector. A coalition of partners, led by the North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBiotech), recently submitted a Phase 2 proposal…

The Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), Georgia’s technology business incubator operated by Georgia Institute of Technology, has announced a new program focused on supply chain and logistics (SC&L) start-ups. As part of the launch, ATDC also announced: (1) the execution of a three-year sponsorship with The Home Depot®, the world’s…

Techstars, the global investment business that provides access to capital, one-on-one mentorship, and customized programming for early-stage entrepreneurs, has announced a new accelerator program. Titled “Techstars Crypto Boston powered by Algorand,” the new program will accept 12 Web3-focused start-ups each of the next three years. Web3 is an internet that…