New Orleans

People may open a wine bottle to celebrate a work win. But for co-founders and recent Tulane University graduates Franziska Trautmann and Max Steitz, a shared bottle of wine sparked…

Communication is difficult in any workplace, but the co-founders behind Prokeep recognized that it was a particular problem for those working in construction.  Jack Carrere, McKay Johnson, and Mark Kanof…

EventTech was a natural fit for Conway Solomon. As a tech enthusiast, he started working at his brother’s New Orleans-based event production company back in high school and the space…

From its first $1 billion exit to an increased number of venture capital deals, the tech scene in New Orleans scored some major headlines in the second half of 2021. …

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…