Stories of Technology, Innovation, & Entrepreneurship in the Southeast

Surgeons perform roughly 670,000 to 700,000 knee replacements every year. About 40% of them end with some kind of misalignment.

Also, mark your calendar for DelTech, the premier entrepreneurial gathering in Memphis from October 14-16.

The number of East Tennessee companies on the Inc. 5000 has doubled in about six years, a sign of a regional economy and entrepreneurial ecosystem that is thriving.

Your brand reaches more people than you realize. Nashville-based One of None helps brands identify, engage and grow the people hidden behind every product, event and interaction through their connected-product software.

After selling a shopping center in Brazil, Barros moved to Knoxville and started buying vacant lots. Now he's building homes that most working families can actually afford.

"The biggest barrier to care is financial," co-founder and CEO Athena Doshi said. "When you're constantly in a state of debt and deficit, you spend more time chasing the bills than providing patient care. We wanted a solution that didn't add headcount or complexity but really solved days to cash."

Blackwing Space's story is the latest proof of what Tennessee’s innovation ecosystem can deliver. Its founders, engineers, lead investor and launch integrator are all based in Tennessee. Together, they have taken the company from founding to orbit in less than a year and made their satellite flight-ready in just five months.

Baron Von Opperbean and the River of Time is a 33,000-square-foot immersive adventure world currently being brought to life in phases inside the former Mississippi River Museum on Mud Island.