Eighteen organizations delivering locally-relevant solutions designed to reduce inequity and meet the diverse needs of the Black community in cities of all sizes across the country have been announced as…

By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA It’s been a busy week in the neighborhood, but we carved out 45 minutes yesterday to sit in on a very timely panel…

The winner of last year’s “Startup Day” pitch competition, as evaluated by the judges, was 490 BioTech which also was named earlier this year as the inaugural winner of the…

The Knoxville Chamber of Commerce recently recorded a conversation with representatives from Electro-Active Technologies Inc., XS Power Batteries, and Eonix where the topic was the energy storage industry in Knoxville,…

(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the fourth article in a series introducing the innovators in Cohort 5 of “Innovation Crossroads.” Each founder will have an article focused on his or her…

Topping our news and notes wrap-up from last week is a great graphic that Ayumi Bennett did for Bailey Foster and Real Good Kitchen (RGK) to show the progress at…

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,…

Ever go through a fast-food drive, order one thing, and receive something else after you paid and drove away? A start-up whose Co-Founder says is powered by technology that can…