(EDITOR’S NOTE: We contacted several of the angel and venture investors in the region to get their thoughts on how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting their activities and their portfolio companies. Previous articles in the series reflected the thoughts of  Ken Woody, President and Partner at Innova Memphis {click here}

Launch Tennessee’s Van Tucker was the featured resource yesterday during a Zoom meeting organized by IFundWomen, the national organization focused on equipping women with the confidence, knowledge, and funding they need to bring their visions to life. The event’s title said it all – “Finding Business Opportunities in a Crisis.”

An 18-year old company based in Seattle is moving its headquarters to Johnson City where it already has a significant presence. LabConnect, which provides laboratory services for clinical trials around the world, made the announcement last week. The company already has a significant presence in Johnson City and will be

The author of this recent post on the Atlanta Tech Village site writes: “The sales pipeline is probably one of the most misunderstood and misused elements of a business – and I don’t mean just for start-ups! Many large organizations live and die by their pipeline, rarely admitting that at

With all of the challenges of operating an interior design-focused business during this challenging time, a North Carolina start-up has developed a novel way to hold trade shows and other events to showcase wares. More important, the company – Vishion – is holding what it is calling the “Vishion Virtual

For those who know this dynamic duo, one can only imagine how many new ideas a minute came out of the mouths of Brandon Bruce and John Bruck when the two Knoxvillians travelled to and from Cincinnati recently. What we do know is that one of those ideas that gained

The Knoxville Technology Council (KTC) is hosting a lunchtime workshop on April 15 titled “IP 101: Boost Your Intellectual Property IQ.” The event, set for 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., will feature Vance VanDrake, a Patent Attorney and Partner at Ulmer & Berne LLP as well as author of the

The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports that eSpin Technologies has shifted much of its work to making disposable surgical masks to help fill the void in the region and beyond. The Chattanooga company, which we first spotlighted in this 2013 article on teknovation.biz, was one of the region’s early adopters of nanotechnology,

Here are some more good suggestions from the Atlanta Tech Village under the headline of “10 Questions You Should Ask Your Remote Employees to Keep Them Engaged.”

An Overland Park, KS-based company hopes to combine its worldwide engineering expertise with ideas from innovators running start-ups to develop solutions to address the COVID-19 pandemic. To achieve that goal, Black & Veatch has launched an incubator it calls the “IgniteX COVID-19 Response Accelerator.” The company has also set aside