(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is final article in our series spotlighting the start-ups that comprise Cohort 2 of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s “Innovation Crossroads” initiative. The companies are a little beyond the halfway point in the two-year program. Next up is our spotlight on the seven start-ups that comprise Cohort 3

Northeast Tennessee was the big winner from the Volunteer State in the latest round of POWER initiative awards announced by the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC). Tennessee’s share of the $44.4 million awarded this month under the program to help expand and diversify the economy in Appalachia’s coal-impacted communities amounted to

The five finalists for Chattanooga’s third annual “COTY (Changemaker of the Year) Award” have been announced. Sponsored by Causeway, a non-profit social innovation studio that exists to help people solve the city’s toughest challenges, the award is designed to recognize a person who uses her or his entrepreneurial mind for

Denise Bash, Vice President of Strategic Account Development at The Lockwood Group, will discuss how to navigate the bridge between life science and health care during next month’s Life Science Tennessee annual conference, known as LSTCON. In a breakout session at the November 14 event in Nashville, she will: (1)

U.S. venture capital firms invested $28.2 billion in 2,265 transactions in the third quarter, continuing the 2019 trend of declining deal flow that is not expected to surpass the record deal value of $137.5 billion in 2018, according to the PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor released last week. The latest report compares

By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA With the exception of one person, all of the entrepreneurial teams participating in the latest cohort of I-Corps South had completed an average of five customer discovery conversations at the midway point of the two-week program when they had to report at a

An app first unveiled in February at the annual “What’s the Big Idea 48-Hour Launch” event in Knoxville and described in this follow-up article on teknovation.biz is taking the next step with a beta test. Lauren McNamara, who conceived the idea for DigDog, held a launch party on Thursday night

Two locally-based venture capitalists will be the featured speakers at the next “Bunker Brews Knoxville Meet-up” scheduled for Thursday night. Ken Woody, President of Innova Memphis, and Grady Vanderhoofven, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Three Roots Capital, will speak on the topic of “Venture Capital – Is It Right

A well-known name in the statewide entrepreneurial ecosystem has a new gig. Jim Stefansic, a former Director of Commercialization for Launch Tennessee, has been named Development Director at Cumberland Emerging Technologies (CET), a Nashville-based organization with a mission to bring biomedical technologies and products conceived at Vanderbilt University and other

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and another UT, in this case The University of Toledo, have entered into a memorandum of understanding for collaborative research into the advanced design and manufacturing of high-strength, intelligent, lightweight materials for use by the automotive sector. According to this news release, the partnership will