(EDITOR’S NOTE: As mentioned in last Tuesday’s feature article about the recent visit of the top leaders and others from Queen City Angels to Knoxville and the “Entrepreneurship Bootcamp” that the organization conducted, this is the final article that summarizes advice offered to local entrepreneurs during the session.) By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA Ahead of a panel discussion and reception that wrapped-up the Queen … Read More

(EDITOR’S NOTE: As mentioned in last Tuesday’s feature article about the recent visit of the top leaders and others from Queen City Angels to Knoxville and the “Entrepreneurship Bootcamp” that the organization conducted, this is an article that summarizes advice offered to local entrepreneurs during the session.) By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA Tony Shipley is Chairman, President and Co-Founder of Queen City Angels (QCA) that … Read More

(EDITOR’S NOTE: As mentioned in Tuesday’s feature article about the recent visit of the top leaders and others from Queen City Angels to Knoxville and the “Entrepreneurship Bootcamp” that the organization conducted, this is an article that summarizes advice offered to local entrepreneurs during the session.) By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA Scott Mindrum recalls the reason that he spent Valentine’s Day … Read More

(EDITOR’S NOTE: As mentioned in Tuesday’s feature article about the recent visit of the top leaders and others from Queen City Angels to Knoxville and the “Entrepreneurship Bootcamp” that the organization conducted, this is an article that summarizes advice offered to local entrepreneurs during the session.) By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA Mike Halloran told attendees at the recent “Entrepreneurship Bootcamp” that Queen … Read More

(EDITOR’S NOTE: As mentioned in Tuesday’s feature article about the recent visit of the top leaders and others from Queen City Angels to Knoxville and the “Entrepreneurship Bootcamp” that the organization conducted, this is an article that summarizes advice offered to local entrepreneurs during the session.) By Tom Ballard, Chief Alliance Officer, PYA Sally Kay spent 36 years with the Dow Chemical Co. and GlaxoSmithKline … Read More

From capturing carbon emissions to getting away from your phone, here’s a look at some innovative tech companies in Knoxville. https://www.knoxnews.com/story/money/2022/07/05/look-some-innovative-tech-companies-knoxville/7646465001/ Carbon is an essential material needed to make batteries for items we use every day, like cars and phones.  But while working on her Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University, SkyNano CEO and co-founder Anna Douglas said she and her team found there … Read More

The two top leaders of Queen City Angels (QCA), along with several members of the Cincinnati-based organization, spent more than two days in Knoxville last week sharing their knowledge, learning more about the local start-up scene, and exploring how to help grow more angels in the community. Tony Shipley, QCA Chairman, President and Co-Founder, and Scott Jacobs, QCA Executive Director, led the … Read More

SkyNano recipient of DOE grant and Environmental Stewardship Award SkyNano was one of eighteen projects to receive a portion of the $39 million grant from the Department of Energy to develop clean energy building materials that remove carbon from the atmosphere and demonstrate carbon negative whole-building designs. SkyNano also received the 2022 Governor’s Environmental Stewardship Award in the Clean Air category. https://www.skynanotechnologies.com/post/skynano-receives-governor-s-environmental-stewardship-award-tennessee-gov-bill-lee

Some really good news came in yesterday for Anna Douglas and the team at Knoxville’s SkyNano LLC. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that her start-up, an alum of the “Innovation Crossroads” program operated by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, was one 18 companies sharing $39 million in funding. Each of the projects is seeking to develop technologies that can transform buildings into … Read More

“In the short term, we hope to build a safer battery that is more energy dense and has a lower price point, reducing the overall cost of electric vehicles and grid storage.” Spark Incubator Company, Eonix- Don DeRosa CEO Lithium-ion batteries impact every facet of our daily lives. They influence the weight, size and functionality of all consumer electronic devices. … Read More