AppHarvest

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…