Stories of Technology, Innovation, & Entrepreneurship in the Southeast

Kansas City native DeAngela Burns-Wallace brings a wide range of experience to the Foundation including the public sector, foreign affairs, and higher education.

The Alliance was launched last year by Illumina Inc. and Nashville Biosciences LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Nashville leads the weekly news bites with five mentions.

The fund has a low cost to join - $20,000 the first year - and has invested $4.6 million in its first 18 months of operation.

The Greycroft Coca‑Cola System Sustainability Fund will focus initially on five key areas with the most potential to impact the carbon footprint of the company and eight bottling partners.

The event has been expanded to two days with an invitation-only day for high-potential start-ups and investors added.

Two drivers of greater investment in the sector in the U.S. are the recently passed "Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act" and the "Inflation Reduction Act."

Classes in the new initiative will be hosted nationwide, both in-person and virtually, throughout the calendar year.