Stories of Technology, Innovation, & Entrepreneurship in the Southeast

The Boyd Venture Challenge is the largest annual grant opportunity available to UT System student entrepreneurs.

Yvonnca Landes has spent 25 years building community — first through real estate, and now through the moments people remember long after the party ends.

The founder of OwnWatt, Yingchen 'YC' Zhang believes awareness is the first step to making better decisions about energy consumption.

This new Algood facility signals Tennessee's push beyond auto EVs into micromobility innovation.

A Knoxville company backed by robotics and paint industry giants is using patented color science to match customers to custom foundation shades in real time.

Trillium already built the world's first bio-based acrylonitrile demonstration plant. The $13 million Series B means they can actually keep its lights on, and plan for what's next.

Kinley Koontz learned how broken systems operate at the highest levels in Washington, D.C. Now, she’s back home in East Tennessee, applying that same diagnostic mindset to two of the region’s most urgent challenges: corporate technology transformation and the accelerating loss of family farmland.

Representatives from TNECD and the East Tennessee Local Workforce Development Board gathered at the Blount Partnership last week to walk area employers through the financial incentives, grants and workforce programs available to them.