Stories of Technology, Innovation, & Entrepreneurship in the Southeast

Joe Procopio is the Chief Product Officer at Get Spiffy and the Founder of teachingstartup.com. He also writes a weekly column about building start-ups and growing entrepreneurial companies for WRAL TechWire. His…

How much of a predictor of future fundraising success is a start-up’s ability to secure seed round funding? According to this recent article in Crunchbase News, the answer is pretty good….

(EDITOR’S NOTE: Photos courtesy of Abdiel Vallejo-Lopez, Marketing Communications Manager, and Mariaelena Hays, Marketing and Programs Coordinator, both at the Chattanooga Area Chamber.) By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA…

The Knoxville Chamber, Knoxville Entrepreneur Center (KEC), and Innov865 Alliance are hosting a three-session series beginning in January on angel investing. Titled “Opportunities on the Horizon,” the sessions are part…

Hypepotamus reports that two female-founded and Southeast-based start-ups – one from Nashville and the other from Birmingham – have joined forces to bring mental health support to parents navigating the new…

Good Growth Capital, a majority women-managed fund with offices in both Charleston, SC, and Boston, has secured an investment from KYOCERA AVX, a leading global manufacturer of advanced electronic components engineered…

Looking for funding for your start-up? Tap into your alumni network. That’s the conclusion that three academic researchers made after analyzing almost two decades of data on early stage venture…

COhatch, a rapidly growing central Ohio-based company that develops shared work and social spaces, recently announced an in-kind gift of $500,000 in professional services to Miami University’s Farmer School of…