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Could Carbon Capture Be The Region's Next Big CleanTech Trend? This Founder Thinks So

Could Carbon Capture Be The Region's Next Big CleanTech Trend? This Founder Thinks So

Kentucky-based AppHarvest garnered celebrity backers and an impressive list of investors before going public via SPAC in early 2021. The AgTech startup has a big vision to change the way we feed the country…so it is only fitting that one of its former executives would go off and

Louisville-based Climavision Lands $100M From World’s Largest Global impact Platform

Louisville-based Climavision Lands $100M From World’s Largest Global impact Platform

Louisville, Kentucky’s growing tech startup scene has caught the attention of San Francisco-based investment firm TPG. The Rise Fund, TPG’s global impact investing platform, announced it has invested $100 million in Climavision, a weather technology and intelligence platform looking to mitigate the economic risks of climate change

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NBA Star Blake Griffin Helps Kentucky-Based AppHarvest Raise $11M

AppHarvest, an agtech startup based in Kentucky, was one of 2019’s biggest tech stories from the Southeast. It appears that 2020 is off to a similarly fertile start in terms of funding, after the company's recent announcement of an $11 million financing round led by a couple

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12 Months of Hype: The Top Stories of 2019

As 2019 draws to a close, it's time to reflect on the events, companies, and people that truly made this year one to remember. From Techstars Atlanta seeing its first successful alumni exit to a pair of regional companies reaching unicorn status, the startup community had a lot

AppHarvest Secures $82 Million Investment, Plus Series A, For 60-Acre High-Tech Greenhouse

AppHarvest Secures $82 Million Investment, Plus Series A, For 60-Acre High-Tech Greenhouse

Agtech startup AppHarvest has secured an $82 million investment from Equilibrium Capital's Controlled Environment Foods Fund to build its 60-acre high-tech greenhouse in Morehead, Kentucky. In addition to the cash infusion, the startup has also raised a Series A equity round of an undisclosed amount, led

This High Tech Greenhouse Is Harvesting Talent and Produce to Revitalize Eastern Kentucky

This High Tech Greenhouse Is Harvesting Talent and Produce to Revitalize Eastern Kentucky

The unemployment rate in Pike County, Kentucky is 8.7 percent. Kentucky-born Jonathan Webb graduated from University of Kentucky with an opportunity to go into coal sales — Kentucky is the third largest coal producing state, but turned it down in favor of pursuing a career path that promoted sustainability.

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Steve Case’s Rise of the Rest Announces Tour Across Southeast and First Seed Investments

The Rise of the Rest bus tour, AOL co-founder Steve Case’s tour of entrepreneurial cities outside of the traditional tech hubs, has announced its seventh tour which will focus on the Southeast region. In early May the ROTR bus will visit Birmingham, AL; Chattanooga, TN; Dallas, TX; Louisville,