(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
Spark Cleantech Accelerator Selects First Cohort of Companies New 12-week program will support early stage cleantech businesses and drive commercialization of their technologies in Tennessee and throughout the Midwest KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (May 12, 2022) – The Spark Cleantech Accelerator (Spark CTA), a strategic initiative within the Spark Innovation Center at the University of Tennessee (UT) Research Park at Cherokee Farm, … Read More
The investment, led by Clean Energy Venture Group, will allow the company to expand business development and commercialization efforts Media Contacts: Hannah Whitson, hannah@piper-communications.com; Angelee Day, angelee@tnresearchpark.org OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – Active Energy Systems (AES), a cleantech company advancing an innovative cooling solution, today announced it met the initial conditions for a first close on a $1 million seed funding … Read More
Does your company have a cleantech focus? Or do you know one that does? The Spark Innovation Center is launching a brand new cleantech accelerator in Knoxville, Tennessee with the support of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the City of Knoxville, Tennessee Valley Authority, and others to help early stage companies bring their technologies to market. The program will … Read More
