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VentureSouth invests $9.2M in 26 early-stage startups in the Southeast

Even during a pandemic, the deals keep flowing for VentureSouth. The angel investment group, headquartered in Greenville, S.C., invested roughly $9.2 million in 26 early-stage companies in 2020. That's down from $12.7 million in 28 companies in 2019, a "record-setting" year.

Nashville's Built Technology Raises $88 Million To Transform How Construction Projects Are Financed

Nashville's Built Technology Raises $88 Million To Transform How Construction Projects Are Financed

Nashville-based Built Technologies, a lending software for construction projects, closed a $88 million Series C funding round this week. The round included several big names in the VC community, including Lee Fixel’s new fund Addition. Fixel will also be joining Built’s board, according to a press statement.

For LaunchTN's New Board Member, Tennessee Is Ready To Welcome In New Tech Talent

For LaunchTN's New Board Member, Tennessee Is Ready To Welcome In New Tech Talent

From startups to soccer clubs, Marcus Whitney has built a lot of impressive ventures in Nashville over the last twenty years. So when you talk to him about the new data showing that more people are moving to Tennessee than any other location, he isn’t surprised. “There’s already

How Nashville-based Teaming sees leadership development in the wake of the pandemic

How Nashville-based Teaming sees leadership development in the wake of the pandemic

“I think we’ve all been in positions as leaders where we may have felt like we didn’t know exactly what to do. We read the books or listened to a Simon Sinek TedTalk, but on Monday, you don’t know how to actuate it,” Teaming’s co-founder

Meet The Chattanooga Entrepreneur Behind Maro, The App Revolutionizing...and Digitizing..."The Talk"

Meet The Chattanooga Entrepreneur Behind Maro, The App Revolutionizing...and Digitizing..."The Talk"

Launch Day for any startup is full of stress, joy...and a few frantic calls with developers to work out last-minute bugs. But Launch Day doesn’t typically coincide with the stress and joy of someone’s actual wedding day. That’s exactly what happened for Chattanooga entrepreneur Kenzie

Innovation Has Deep Roots in Tennessee. Now, The Rest of the Country Is Taking Note.

Innovation Has Deep Roots in Tennessee. Now, The Rest of the Country Is Taking Note.

Even on a Zoom call, the team at Launch Tennessee knows how to welcome people into their growing community. Ahead of their latest virtual speaker series, Hypepotamus got a chance to connect with Launch Tennessee’s CEO Van Tucker to talk about how this unique public-private partnership is taking

36|86 Festival Winners Showcase Tennessee's Startup Power

36|86 Festival Winners Showcase Tennessee's Startup Power

For Tennessee startups, being proactive seems to be the key to success this year. SecondKeys and ARMS Cyber, both Tennessee-based startups, took home first place in LaunchTN’s and 36:86 Pitch Competition and Student Edition Competition, respectively. While SecondKeys is working on property management issues and ARMS Cyber