(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the third in a series of articles focused on the history of the Tennessee Valley Corridor and its series of Summits. Twenty-five years after the inaugural event in Oak Ridge, the silver anniversary Summit will be celebrated as a series of 90-minute virtual events beginning July

WorkHound, the Chattanooga company that we spotlighted in this teknovation.biz article last September, has announced that it is expanding into the healthcare space. Founded in 2015, the software company has spent the past half-decade strengthening worker retention efforts in industries like trucking. Leveraging that success, WorkHound’s entrance into the healthcare sector

The LITE House Entrepreneur Center in Athens and Junior Achievement of the Ocoee Region are teaming-up to host a free, virtual camp for 20 young entrepreneurs. Titled “Spark,” the event runs June 15-19. The participants will be divided into two cohorts with 90 minutes of programming each day. Click here

Johnson Venture Partners, a micro venture capital fund, announced last week that its has opened its new headquarters in Atlanta. According to this article in Atlanta Inno, the firm’s Managing Partner is Matt Johnson who has been a part of the start-up ecosystem in the southeast for a long time. The

A student-led initiative is connecting hundreds of Stanford University affiliates – mostly students – to projects and ventures that are fighting COVID-19 and its ramifications. That includes the COVID-19 Response Innovation Lab, an incubator in the School of Medicine that has grown to 21 projects in two months. Read more

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the second in a series of articles focused on the history of the Tennessee Valley Corridor and its series of Summits. Twenty-five years after the inaugural event in Oak Ridge, the silver anniversary Summit will be celebrated as a series of 90-minute virtual events beginning July

A dozen Columbia, SC technology firms have banded together as GrowCo, an organization hoping to fill the niche of aiding upstart businesses ready to move beyond early into later stage growth. The group has a goal of increasing the 10 times the number of companies of the Inc. 5,000-ranked list

Mark Buffington, Chief Executive Officer of BiP Capital, shares what he calls his five “rules of the road” to help start-ups navigate the current economic crisis in this article that appeared recently in Atlanta Inno.

Northwestern University researchers have developed a wearable device that can detect early signs and symptoms of coronavirus. The device, designed to be worn 24/7 on the neck, uses artificial intelligence to detect suspicious coughing and respiratory activity that suggest a patient could have coronavirus. It monitors coughing intensity and patterns, chest wall

In a recent article in The Daily Pitch from PitchBook, the author writes: “Women, especially first-time founders, have long lagged behind men in raising venture capital for their start-ups. But in the pandemic’s heightened climate of caution, anecdotes from female founders suggest that they face even greater hurdles because VCs are suddenly