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DIY Wrap Club: Strong Growth, New Brand
I started DIY Wrap Club stuck in Atlanta traffic. Back in 2018, I was teaching a winter session at Morehouse College, and one day, while headed to class, I was stuck in some particularly bad traffic, even by Atlanta standards.
RueData announces Chattanooga as location for U.S. headquarters
Company focuses on data-driven cost savings for large vehicle fleets Sebastián Baquero has a clear idea of how to solve a major cost for the trucking industry: He’s harnessed the power of AI for better tire management. Now, his company,
Shappi’s Startup Solution to a Global Shopping Problem
Over the last 12 months, Shappi – a three-year-old startup – has delivered more than $5 million in products to more than 300 locations and thousands of customers in South America. Described as the logistics-travel equivalent of Uber or Airbnb,
Silicon Valley Came to Me
A Brickyard engineer’s journey from Sudan to the Scenic City Brickyard, Chattanooga’s booming venture capital firm on the Southside, is a beehive of activity. But if you were to visit it on any given day, one of the things you
The ‘Eco-AI’ Solving the Problem of Energy Use and Data Centers: an update on FLUIX
Last spring, Abhi Sastri traveled to Chattanooga from San Francisco, where his start-up FLUIX was headquartered. He’d been named one of five global startups in the 2024 CO.LAB and gener8tor Sustainable Mobility Accelerator. Selected among 145 applicants spanning the globe,
INCubator Director Named to Leadership Tennessee NEXT Program
Leadership Tennessee, a group committed to fostering nonpartisan conversations on key state matters, has named Marcherie Savage, director of entrepreneurial development for The INCubator at the Hamilton County Business Development Center (BDC), to the Leadership Tennessee NEXT program for its
Meet Co.Lab’s Sustainable Mobility Cohort
Nine tech start-ups, selected from a field of global competitors, are innovating and transforming the energy and logistics landscape in Chattanooga, the US and beyond. One Montreal company is creating a home battery storage system to reduce peak energy consumption
The Very Sweet Entrepreneurial Success of Cocoa Asante
As she looked out at the room of dignitaries, elected officials, nonprofit leaders, family and friends, all of whom came to celebrate her ongoing success as an entrepreneur, businesswoman and luxury chocolatier, Ella Livingston smiled and thought back to the
How Doing What You Know (and Finding Help with What You Don’t) Pays Off: The TESBROS Story
If you’d asked Ji Hoon Heo what he anticipated the next five years to look like when he launched his “Tesla Bros” Facebook group in January of 2019, he likely wouldn’t have shared visions of a nearly 30,000-subscriber YouTube fanbase,
From Brickyard to the Bay: Brev.dev Acquired by NVIDIA
If you pay any attention to the business world, then you are probably at least vaguely familiar with Nvidia, a San Francisco Bay Area technology outfit that earlier this summer harnessed the wave of AI popularity to become the most
