The services are based on lessons learned since EPB deployed its fiber optic network 15 years ago.

The event paired students with eight different community partners to address an economic, social, or environmental issue of their choice.

The honorees were announced at Thursday evening's Equal Opportunity Awards Gala.

The first cohort will launch in March 2025, supporting and promoting eight diverse, marginalized founders.

Brilliant Minds, which luanched in April, only invests in founders who are 50 or older.

The new "Go Red for Women Venture Fund" will invest in health companies that target cardiovascular, metabolic, and neurologic solutions across a woman’s lifespan.

With the latest, The University of Alabama in Huntsville will be the largest and most comprehensive mobile radar and observing facility in the U.S.

The company's has partnered with ORNL to develop the platform technology called RaiCure that uses energy-curable, PFA-free, polymers to replace traditional electrode manufacturing methods.