"Ecobot"

Asheville-based Ecobot went into the pandemic with three employees. But as those in the environmental regulatory industry looked for better digital collaboration tools, business boomed. The platform is now used…

It can be the most exhilarating or the most daunting time for an early-stage founder: Bringing on the first hire.  That time came in 2019 for Asheville-based Ecobot, an environmental…

Often, even before a real estate developer or construction work moves the first piece of dirt on a property, they must conduct extensive environmental assessments to make sure that building…

Asheville, North Carolina-based environmental monitoring, reporting, and data forecasting startup Ecobot has raised $700,000 in seed funding, bringing total investment to over $1 million, according to CEO Lee Lance. Lance…

Cerulean Labs, a New Zealand startup with a sketch-based conceptual design tool for architects, is moving its headquarters to Atlanta. The announcement comes after the early-stage startup landed a seed…

The City of Asheville may have a population under 100,000, but the startup scene in town certainly punches above its weight. In 2022, LinkedIn ranked Asheville as the seventh fastest-growing…

Headlines about The Great Resignation – the 2021 trend of employees leaving jobs voluntarily  – has given way to realities of layoffs and sector-specific slowdowns have certainly rattled the tech…

The amount of potential seed money in the Southeast startup world is growing yet again.  Cofounders Capital, an early-stage VC firm in North Carolina, recently closed a $50 million fund.…

When Hypepotamus last caught up with Tommy Linstroth and his Savannah-based Green Badger in 2018, they were already alleviating a big problem in the construction world. The pandemic and the…

Jeffrey Kaplan took to the TEDxAsheville stage earlier this year to talk about something uncomfortable: The entrepreneurial journey as we know it is pretty broken. As Director at Venture Asheville,…