Upkey, a Chicago-based startup that offers students free online career readiness tools, recently announced its closing of $2.6 million in seed funding. The company also announced Purdue University, SNHU and Guardian Life as customers for its platform, which helps...
Bronze Valley Accelerator and Innovate Birmingham announced on January 20 the launch of gener8tor Upskilling, a free training program to help Alabama residents obtain critical digital skills for in-demand jobs. Funded through a grant from Microsoft, the program will...
On October 5, nationally ranked startup accelerator gener8tor announced the 50 participants selected for ten Fall 2020 gBETA cohorts. The 50 startups are located across the country, and represent a wide variety of industries and verticals, including IIoT, medical...
Bronze Valley has added two members to its Board of Directors. They are Kenneth E. (Kenny) Coleman, president and CEO of the Birmingham Business Alliance (BBA), and Jeff Peoples, executive vice president of Customer and Employee Services for Alabama Power. “Kenny and...
Racial and ethnic minorities make up 40 percent of the U.S. population. But when it comes to medical research, minorities account for as little as two percent of participants in studies of new tests and treatments. Acclinate Genetics — the newest addition to the...
“Birmingham’s entrepreneurial ecosystem has been picking up momentum,” Haley Medved Kendrick says. “Our community can become one of the Southeast’s leaders in encouraging and supporting innovation- and tech-related growth and attracting and retaining top...