Stories of Technology, Innovation, & Entrepreneurship in the Southeast

Knoxville Business News Tennessee Mountain Scenery Background
April 12, 2017 | Tom Ballard

Three East TN teams selected for “Village 36”

36-86 v2Three East Tennessee-based companies have been selected to participate in “Village 36” during Launch Tennessee’s upcoming “36|86 Conference.”

MomSource Network, which just completed LaunchTN’s “The TENN” master accelerator, joins fellow Knoxville-based Smart RIA and Chattanooga’s Collider as representatives from the east. In addition, one of the North Carolina companies – Cathedral Leasing – was founded in Knoxville by Doug Speight before he relocated to his home state.

We have spotlighted each of the companies in previous articles on teknovation.biz. You can read about Courtney Jones’ MomSource Network here, Smart RIA that was founded by Roger Kiger here, Collider here, and Cathedral Leasing here.

Fourteen of the 36 companies selected call Tennessee home with Nashville have the most – 10. In all, eight states and the District of Columbia are represented.

Click here to see the full list. The conference runs June 4 through 7 in Nashville.


Don’t Miss Out on the Southeast’s Latest Entrepreneurial, Business, & Tech News!

Sign-up to get the Teknovation Newsletter in your inbox each morning!

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.


No, thanks!