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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The startup 490 BioTech, which developed bioluminescent human cells to show changes in cellular health, won the Innov865 Judges’ Choice Award at Startup Day 2020 with a pitch that explained how its technology can improve development of…
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Innov865 Week begins Monday, September 28 with a Facebook Live talk from Randy Boyd, President of the University of Tennessee, and culminates in the Friday award ceremony featuring a fireside chat with the inaugural winner of the…
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Elevator pitches are online for each competitor in this year’s Innov865 Alliance Startup Day contest. Each short video gives a glimpse of the technology and innovation currently developing in Knoxville’s robust startup scene. The minute-long proposals are…
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The Center for Creative Economy in Winston-Salem, NC has selected 10 entrepreneurs to participate in the organization’s fifth creative accelerator. Velocity is an intensive high impact program that helps creative startups discover their target customers, develop business models, and develop…
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Some of the pitches shooting for $10,000 at Innov865’s Startup Day this year include predictive software for heart attacks, an untraceable password generator and glowing human cells to deliver medicine, among other ideas. Those are among six…
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The TennesSeed Fund, an evergreen, seed-stage, proof-of-concept venture capital fund has launched to invest in companies throughout Tennessee. The Fund is managed by TennesSeed Partners, which is a collaboration of Three Roots Capital, Meritus Capital, and Innova Memphis, Inc. To date, the…
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One thing that’s clear in today’s marketplace: Consumers want fast, user-friendly, convenient and customized service–and if your company isn’t offering it, they’ll go somewhere else to find it, fast. According to IDG’s 2018 State of Digital Business Transformation, 89 percent of organizations…
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Improving your life starts with changing your focus, priorities and execution. We all aspire to be better people, yet too many of us hesitate to roll up our sleeves and tackle the roadblocks that prevent us from achieving that goal. We stay in…
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Venture For America CEO Amy Nelson will be the featured speaker for Innov865 Week’s Startup Day 2018. Venture For America is a nonprofit fellowship program that connects recent college graduates with jobs at startups, forging a community of entrepreneurs committed…
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Matt Huddleston, Tommy Nguyen and Richard Jeffords of StoragePug join host Joel Sadler at DIG on the 1/2 Shell to share how they’re bringing tech to the self storage market. Each team member explains their role (and how each piece…
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