Atlanta-based Film Connx is latest Bronze Valley investment

by Mark Kelly | Jul 22, 2020 | Bronze Valley, Business, Featured, Innovation

Bronze Valley is making its first investment in the entrepreneurial hotbed of Atlanta. Film Connx, a job marketplace for the film industry, joins a portfolio of startups that now has grown to nine companies since the nonprofit Bronze Valley was launched late in 2017....

Bronze Valley teams with gener8tor to launch Bronze Valley Accelerator

by Mark Kelly | Jul 7, 2020 | Bronze Valley, Business, Featured, Innovation

A new partnership between Bronze Valley and gener8tor, a nationally-ranked startup accelerator, will fuel the growth of startups emerging from Birmingham and throughout the Southeast. The Bronze Valley Accelerator is a free version of gener8tor’s program, aimed at...

Bronze Valley welcomes new board member Greg Barker

by Mark Kelly | Jun 16, 2020 | Business, Featured

Bronze Valley has added Greg Barker to its board of directors. Barker, recently named president of the Economic Development Partnership of Alabama (EDPA), was elected to the board at its May meeting. “I am genuinely excited to be part of such a dynamic and...

Hassan Riggs and Smart Alto are at home in Birmingham

by Mark Kelly | May 28, 2020 | Business, Featured, Innovation

Achieving the convergence of need and opportunity is the essential idea behind Hassan Riggs’s company, Smart Alto, which is the latest addition to the growing Bronze Valley portfolio. It’s also a big reason he moved his startup from Silicon Valley to Birmingham — and...

Debt management platform PeopleJoy is latest addition to Bronze Valley portfolio

by Mark Kelly | Apr 6, 2020 | Business, Education, Featured, Innovation

“If you’re an entrepreneur,” Emeka Oguh declares, “you want to find a way to solve your own problems.” Oguh, 36, is the founder and CEO of PeopleJoy, the latest addition to the Bronze Valley investment portfolio. A Philadelphia-based...

HBCU Summit focused on opportunities, challenges, leadership

by Mark Kelly | Feb 20, 2020 | Business, Community, Education, Featured

America’s historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) currently serve well over 300,000 students. Alabama is home to 14 HBCUs with combined enrollment of more than 37,000, or about 12 percent of the national total; no state has more HBCUs and only North...