Socially Equally Energy Efficient Development (SEEED) is one of 18 organizations across the nation sharing a pot of $3.6 million through the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) “Inclusive Energy Innovation Prize.” It is a first-of-its-kind competition designed to support entrepreneurship and innovation in communities historically underserved in federal climate and…

Crunchbase News has again compiled a list of the top universities in terms of producing the most funded founders, and the top three are pretty much as they have been. In its latest iteration, the publication analyzed how many founders of top schools raised $500,000 or more since the beginning…

By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA Former Knoxville Chief of Police Phil Keith has agreed to serve as an advisor to Avrio Analytics as the Knoxville-headquartered start-up moves more aggressively into the first responder sector and prepares for a new capital raise. That’s the word from Alicia Caputo, Co-Founder…

As noted in this post from yesterday, Y Combinator, the Silicon Valley-based start-up accelerator that has backed more than 3,000 new ventures around the world, issued an advisory to its portfolio companies last week. It cautioned them about economic and geopolitical uncertainties and urging conservative actions. That was followed yesterday…

Hypepotamus casts its spotlight on a Birmingham, AL-based start-up that recently won $25,000 in non-dilutive funding through the Alabama Launchpad‘s “Cycle 1 2022 Finale.” The company is Croux, and its team is “building a solution to help restaurants fill shifts quickly with great, local talent.” As noted in the article, staffing…

Midlands Technical College in South Carolina was the first in the state to launch the all-new “SCBIO Life Sciences Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Certificate Program” that was developed to help build a workforce pipeline for positions in what is now the Palmetto State’s fastest-growing industry. Developed in conjunction with SCBIO, the statewide…

Nine Alabama universities and one private firm are partnered in a new $20 million, five-year effort led by the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to develop transformative technologies in plasma science and engineering (PSE). The project is funded by the National Science Foundation’s Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research…

To help the University of Georgia (UGA) secure future research contracts with federal mission-focused agencies, the institution has created the UGA Research Institute (UGARI). The decision followed the awarding of a contract to manage the Savannah River National Lab, located at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site, to a consortium…

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is another article in a series spotlighting one of the companies in the inaugural cohort of the “Techstars Industries of the Future Accelerator.” The “Demo Day” is set for this Thursday {May 26} at the Student Union at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the public is…

By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA The title was the “Energy System of the Future; Powerful Partnerships” when two Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) executives participated in the Tennessee Advanced Energy Business Council’s (TAEBC) annual “lunch and learn” focused on the nation’s largest public utility. Amy Henry, Director of Transformative…