Endeavor, a global entrepreneurship non-profit, is expanding in Birmingham, announcing plans to select and support more growth stage founders and launch a new program called “ScaleUp Birmingham” to accelerate the…
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Florida Power & Light Co. (FPL) will launch a start-up incubator to spur innovations in the fields of energy and water. Under the new initiative, FPL will set aside space on…
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By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA Spend some time with Stacy Baugues, and you’ll quickly learn that she is passionate about health, wellness and fitness. In fact, the Memphis…
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Powerhouse Ventures is a new $5.5 million seed stage fund focused on pre-revenue or early revenue companies that engage with digital technology or business-model innovation in the clean energy space. According…
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(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is another in our on-going series of articles spotlighting the Northeast Tennessee entrepreneurial ecosystem.) By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA “We want to shorten the time…
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(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first article in a multi-part series providing an update on the pioneering work of long-time Knoxville entrepreneur Sam Weaver.) By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer,…
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(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the fourth in a six-part series about Knoxville entrepreneur Sam Weaver.) Sam Weaver easily qualified as a serial entrepreneur in the region by the time he…