Stories of Technology, Innovation, & Entrepreneurship in the Southeast

Mappler Lite puts mapping power in community hands — and founder Wansoo Im believes that data could reshape health and housing policy across Tennessee.

Gumption's founders say the platform helps cut down the time spent finding and securing financing for commercial projects by 40 to 50%.

"Our goal is to give every vision-impaired person the independence they deserve through tools they can truly rely on," said ApexAI's founder, Maged Shoman.

For years, dropping a dog off at a boarding facility meant calling your vet to get its records, printing out a stack of vaccine records, driving across town to drop them off, and hoping nothing got lost in the shuffle.

Through OTTO, founder Maged Guerguis is solving key challanges in the construction industry like unpredictability, supply-chain gaps, costs changes, and schedule delays.

GENESIS, the university's most powerful research instrument to date, is designed to pull federal dollars, talent, and high-wage jobs into a part of the state that has had little advanced-computing infrastructure.

Richardson's new venture aims to help corporations, nonprofits, and regional partners turn complex ideas into action.

23 educators from 16 Chattanooga-area schools have been named to the region's inaugural QCaMP cohort, one of only 20 Sandia National Laboratories-led quantum educator programs nationwide.