By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA SFW Capital Partners LP, a Rye, NY-based private equity firm, announced yesterday that it has completed a majority recapitalization of Knoxville-based RDI Technologies, a…
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The Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) announced yesterday that John Hopkins will step down from his role as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) effective March 31. Described in this…
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The JumpFund was founded in Chattanooga in 2014 and made its first investment soon thereafter in SuperFan Inc., a woman-led company based in Louisville, KY. Now, nearly seven years later,…
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Here are some news briefs from the past week or so. Maribel Koella, a long-time Commercial Realtor in Knoxville, provided one more data point on last week’s article that cited…
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John Hopkins, Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI), sent this commentary on the Knoxville-based organization and the responses of the non-profit and its members…
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EDP Biotech Inc. is the winner of the “I Deserve It Challenge” hosted by Tulane University and Ujamaa Economic Development and will be in the “Big Easy” later this month…
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By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA “I had been growing it slow . . . organically,” says Ben Arnold, the Northeast Tennessee Entrepreneur who developed the ConnectScale device in…