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…
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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…
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NBA Star Blake Griffin Helps Kentucky-Based AppHarvest Raise $11M
by Mike Jordanby Mike JordanAppHarvest, 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…
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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…
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AppHarvest Secures $82 Million Investment, Plus Series A, For 60-Acre High-Tech Greenhouse
by Muriel Vegaby Muriel VegaAgtech 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,…
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This High Tech Greenhouse Is Harvesting Talent and Produce to Revitalize Eastern Kentucky
by Muriel Vegaby Muriel VegaThe 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…
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Steve Case’s Rise of the Rest Announces Tour Across Southeast and First Seed Investments
by Holly Beilinby Holly BeilinThe 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…