New Orleans

Since Gretchen Lynn joined as Levelset’s employee #1 back in 2011, she’s been part of making sure those in the construction industry never “lose a night’s sleep over payment.”  The…

A struggle over an apartment security deposit has been spun into a rapidly scaling startup with roots across the Southeast.  Based out of New Orleans, RentCheck was started after Lydia…

Nine early-stage startups across Louisiana recently graduated from the VILLAGEx accelerator program, and a subset of them brought in a combined $9.5 million in funding.  For Jon Atkinson, CEO of…

Expect Sevetri Wilson to be in the news a lot more in the near future — the African-American entrepreneur’s nonprofit formation and compliance platform Resilia just announced a completed Series…

New Orleans-based rechargeable battery technology company Advano has announced its official exit from stealth mode with an $18.5 million Series A funding round. Japanese manufacturing giant Mitsui Kinzoku’s SBI Material…

The Idea Village, a New Orleans-based entrepreneurial nonprofit dedicated to help emerging tech companies grow and succeed, recently announced the selection of 12 local startups to its 2020 VILLAGEx (formerly…

Levelset, a New Orleans-based SaaS platform that helps relieve cash flow issues for contractors by getting them paid more quickly, has announced a $30 million Series C round of funding…

When training new doctors, teaching hospitals and medical schools generally use expensive cadaver labs for practice. Some are beginning to use computer simulations to replicate clinical scenarios, but research has…