Rise of the Rest

Chattanooga, known by its adopted nickname, “Gig City,” might not be the first place that comes to mind when you think of technology in the South. But with the fastest…

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…

Base, the first SaaS platform built exclusively for executive assistants, has announced the completion of a $2.6M seed funding round. The year-old company says it will use the funds to…

Jammber, a workflow management startup specifically for musicians, has joined the list of non-Silicon Valley startups backed by AOL co-founder Steve Case’s Revolution and its Rise of the Rest (ROTR)…

Enterprise AI startup Pryon has closed on $20 million in one of the Southeast’s largest Series A funding rounds to-date. The Series A was led by two of Pryon’s existing…

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,…

From city governments all the way up to the president of the United States, social media has become an important tool for policymakers and government agencies to reach constituents directly.…

FreightWaves, the Chattanooga-based media and data startup focused on the freight industry, has raised a $21 million Series B from strategic institutional, corporate and individual investors. The round was led…