BioOhio recently announced its relaunch and reorganization as Ohio Life Sciences (OLS). Like Life Science Tennessee, it is a statewide association advancing and advocating for the common interests of Ohio’s life sciences community and with a vision for Ohio to be recognized as one of the most robust and innovative…

Columbus, OH-based Heartland Ventures, a venture capital firm with a focus on connecting technology start-up hubs with customers in America’s heartland, has announced the successful closing of its $52 million Fund II. As with Heartland’s first fund, the firm writes in this news release that Fund II investments will be…

A Morrisville, NC start-up that has built a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that enables venture capital funds to manage and forecast their portfolios has launched with $1.5 million in seed funding backing. Tactyc, the first software solution to address venture capital portfolio forecasting and planning, has announced its official launch as…

Looking for tips to better manage your time devoted to meetings? If so, Zeb Evans, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of productivity platform ClickUp, has five suggestions. Published in Fast Company, they are: Never schedule meetings back-to-back; Try to block your meetings for a specific time of day; Embrace asynchronous work;…

By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA When Hitachi Zosen Inova USA LLC announced on November 8 that the company was expanding its Knoxville operations by 90 jobs, Mayor Glenn Jacobs said that “(w)e are making tremendous progress toward becoming an innovation hub.” Now, roughly three weeks after that announcement,…

RegScale, a next-generation Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) software company with its research and development (R&D) headquartered in Knoxville, has just acquired GovReady, an open-source Compliance-as-Code platform. RegScale said in a release that GovReady’s vision around a Compliance-as-Code, questionnaire-driven approach to generate System Security Plans (SSPs), coupled with RegScale’s expert-driven…

WRAL TechWire reports that researchers at North Carolina State University have demonstrated a new technique for directly printing electronic circuits onto curved and corrugated surfaces. Their work paves the way for a variety of new soft electronic technologies, and researchers have used the technique to create prototype “smart” contact lenses, pressure-sensitive…

AL.com reports that Cynthia Crutchfield has been tapped as the first Chief Executive Officer of Innovate Alabama, the state’s public-private partnership focused on technology, innovation and entrepreneurship. Before serving as Chief Operating Officer of Huntsville’s The Crutchfield Company, a real estate investment business, Crutchfield spent 18 years as a civil servant…

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the third article in a series spotlighting the members of Cohort 6 of the “Innovation Crossroads” program operated by Oak Ridge National Laboratory.) By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA There’s a lot of meaning in the name that Kim Tutin gave to Captis Aire LLC,…

The Big Give is Knoxville’s 24-hour online giving campaign designed to raise money and awareness for the local non-profit community, and it is today. Run by the United Way and sponsored by First Horizon Bank, the Big Give accepts monetary donations and then distributes them to different nonprofits in the…