Six tech companies gear up for Knoxville Entrepreneur Center’s WORKS Accelerator
THE WORKS is the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center's premier start-up accelerator for early-stage software, technology, and tech-enabled companies poised for rapid growth.
Since 2013, Knoxville Entrepreneur Center has worked with a broad range of startups, including everything from Medical Data Technology, Retail POS integration, EdTech, and Storage Unit Management. Over 100 companies have participated in KEC accelerator programs and have raised over $160 million in private capital.
The WORKS accelerator 2026 has been built to continue that legacy.
Meet the companies
Raina Ventures LLC
Founded by Raymond Decker, Raina helps verify content before it becomes a headline. Raina is a real-time verification and trust layer for newsrooms, election authorities, and universities. It helps teams assess authenticity, provenance, and corroboration before misinformation spreads.
Green Routine
Founded by Ryan Ebanks, Green Routine is a unified content and advisory ecosystem focused on energy intelligence, providing solutions for energy cost optimization, tariff analysis, operational efficiency, and infrastructure planning. The company serves a broad spectrum of commercial, industrial, and growing businesses, not only reducing costs but managing risk and deploying capital with confidence.
Equipment Locker
Founded by John Nelson, Equipment Locker is a machine-level operational knowledge platform that connects manuals, procedures, troubleshooting data, training, parts information, and AI-assisted guidance directly to industrial equipment through QR-based access. They help maintenance and operations teams reduce downtime, preserve tribal knowledge, improve training, and access governed, evidence-bound information at the point of work.
VeriQual Inc.
Founded by Bryan Crosby, VeriQual builds VOSE™ — a software that takes non-W2 income, verifies it, and structures it to help contractors with tax returns. The company’s software runs a deterministic, Fannie 1084-aligned calculation on non-W2 borrower income and delivers a clean data set into the user’s loan operating system. They serve institutional lenders: mortgage companies, auto lenders, and community banks that need a fast, auditable alternative to manual tax return analysis for self-employed applicants.
Read more about VeriQual by Lindsay Turner in Teknovation here.
DhyanaTech Inc.
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