Stories of Technology, Innovation, & Entrepreneurship in the Southeast

Those companies are primarily at the early or seed stages and fairly new, according to Crunchbase data.

Atlanta entrepreneur David Cummings describes how he shunned the idea until he read a book that changed his life forever.

Raising capital is now markedly more difficult even at the seed stage, where quarterly deal value declined 26.3 percent from the prior quarter.

AgLaunch works with a national network of innovative farmers who provide field trials, farm data, investment, and peer-to-peer scale to move low-regulatory technologies such as robotics and biologic inputs from idea to revenue.

It is the latest initiative from the owners of "Black Tech Week" which begins its three-day run on July 18 in the Queen City.

Georgia Tech hires a new leader of its clean tech commercialization efforts, Arizona State University is creating a new School of Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, and the University of Chicago makes another commitment to the life sciences.

Data shows the Southeastern U.S. is a hotbed of activity, although Tennessee does not show as well as our neighboring states.

Participants stayed true to their ideas, but fine-tuned their stories.