Feel Zoomed-out, so to speak? If so, a start-up with ties to Georgia Institute of Technology might have the solution you are seeking. Gatherly is rethinking the very structure of virtual conferences and just might be the answer to those fighting Zoom fatigue during endless video calls. Moving away from

Additional details, including an updated name, have been announced for the former TVA Federal Credit Union Building in downtown Knoxville where Cocoon Resources Inc. will locate its corporate headquarters and also the home for the BreathKeysTM brand of Volatile Analysis Corporation, one of its portfolio companies. In a conversation earlier

Roughly five years after the State of Wisconsin created the Badger Fund of Funds with $25 million and a goal of investing in start-up companies, it has committed an unspecified amount to a new initiative. The Winnow Fund, a seed stage venture capital fund, has raised $6 million, partly from

The University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF) has issued the 13th annual call for proposals under its “Maturation Grant Program” with the opportunity to win up to $15,000. The UTRF program is open to researchers, faculty, staff and students across all UT campuses and institutes. It is designed to assist

Are you planning an airplane trip in the near term? Many people are not, and that’s a problem for airlines. Where challenges exist, entrepreneurial opportunity abounds. A consortium of Research Triangle partners that includes four universities, the local airport authority, and Research Triangle Institute have joined together to sponsor an

Here’s a good initiative for new agriculture ventures, albeit in the Sacramento region of California. AgStart, a nonprofit based in Woodland, CA, has announced a public-private collaboration to fund a shared-use innovation incubator supporting innovators and startup companies in agriculture, food and health. When complete, the $1.3 million Lab@AgStart will feature a

Panasonic Corporation recently announced the launch of Conductive Ventures II with a commitment of $150 million. That amount is a 50 percent increase from the first fund. Headquartered in California, the new fund will invest in expansion stage enterprise software and hardware technology companies in the areas including artificial intelligence,

Hafta Have and Velos Labs each won $2,000 in the fourth iteration of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center’s “Pitch for Good” series help yesterday afternoon. The former serves retailers, helping them identify and text their shoppers about the exact items they want to buy, before they buy them, while the latter provides

Registration is open for “LSTCON 2020,” the annual conference of Life Science Tennessee. As noted here, the event will be virtual and delivered over parts of three afternoons – October 27 and 28 and November 17.

The latest blog post from the Jumpstart Foundry team in Nashville is a quick, but important read for those pitching for dollars. It’s titled “4 Fundraising Strategies that Make Investors Love You and Your Company.”