Techstars, the rapidly expanding start-up accelerator founded in 2006, has secured $42 million in investment in an effort led by SVB Financial Group, the holding company of Silicon Valley Bank. As of the posting of this article,  Techstars had logged some impressive numbers: An investment management business with $500 million

By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA Jamie Dimon’s tremendous respect for military veterans and his commitment to helping accelerate the success rate of those veterans who become entrepreneurs after they leave the service were clearly on display late Thursday afternoon in Nashville. The event was the Music City stop

The inaugural convening of the new Knoxville Technology Council (KTech) is just three days away and, as Brandon Bruce promised in this recent teknovation.biz article, there will be a number of exciting technology opportunities for attendees to learn about or experience. The festivities begin at 3 p.m. August 15 at Jewelry TV

Just a year after the Jay Hurt Hub for Innovation and Entrepreneurship opened at Davidson College, one of the inaugural start-ups in the 23,000 square foot facility has been acquired. That’s just one of the significant developments at “The Hurt Hub@Davidson,” the shorthand name for the facility, that has experienced

The President and Chief Executive Officer of Birmingham’s Innovation Depot is leaving the very successful enterprise for a new gig in Tulsa, OK. In the past five years, the start-up incubator has contributed $2.65 billion to the economy of Birmingham and the Southeast. It finished 2018 with 113 member companies

Key details of this year’s edition of Knoxville’s “Startup Day” have been announced. The event, set for the afternoon of September 24 at The Mill & Mine, will spotlight the region’s slightly later stage start-ups in the annual pitch competition along with a fireside featuring the President and Chief Executive

Looking to connect with investors? There might not be a better opportunity in the near term than the upcoming “36|86 Entrepreneurship Festival” at the end of the month in Nashville. Launch Tennessee says that about 20 percent of those who have already registered – more than 100 individuals – are

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently released a listing of recipients of Phase I and Phase II awards for FY2019 under its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs, and it probably comes as no surprise that all of the winners are from East

You can always find good ideas coming from the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina, and here’s a good one for co-working parents. Nido: Co-working & Childcare, located in Durham, is an innovative non-profit that provides co-working space, a community of creative female professionals, and half-day Montessori childcare for

Josh Burrell, Managing Partner of Activated Capital, is hosting two meetings in Kingsport next week focused on Opportunity Zones and the projects his firm is contemplating funding.  There are two identical 90-minute meetings at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. August 13 in the Domtar Room at the Kingsport Chamber of