JEDCO, the Jefferson Parish Economic Development Commission, will open the new, state of the art Churchill Technology & Business Park on April 1. The center will support early-stage growth businesses with an incubator program and is located in Jefferson Parish, only a few minutes to downtown New Orleans. “The Business Innovation Center is much more [...]
Startup Weekend is coming to Louisiana the weekend of April 8-10, 2011 and will be held on the LSU Campus in Baton Rouge. For those of you who haven’t heard of Startup Weekend, it’s a nonprofit organization that runs weekend events around the globe with the goal of launching startups in one weekend and building [...]
Our friends at New Orleans Tech, the blog highlighting the vibrant tech community in New Orleans, are launching the first annual Teen Tech Day on April 9, 2011 at 3400 Tulane Avenue, Suite 1000, New Orleans, LA 70119. Teen Tech Day is a one day event tailored toward youth in the New Orleans, exposing them [...]
Advantage Capital Partners, a New Orleans-based venture capital firm, has promoted two members of its New Orleans office. Justin Obletz has been promoted to Senior Vice President and S. Talmadge Singer was named Vice President. Advantage Capital Partners is a leading venture capital and small business finance firm focused on providing growth capital and other [...]
This article was originally written by John Tozzi and appeared in Business Week. New Orleans own Benjamin Reece and his new startup Kinio were featured in the articles, as was LaunchPad Ignition. Some 500 people have signed up to test Benjamin Reece’s service to help indie filmmakers distribute their movies and merchandise online, a business [...]
LaunchPad Ignition, the New Orleans-based seed stage accelerator founded by Chris Schultz, announced its first class of startups. Ignition creates a framework to help founders refine their product offering, invigorate their business plans, and raise funding to fuel their growth. Each startup gets up to $25,000 in funding, mentorship from a talented group of mentors, [...]
NOvate Medical Technologies was selected winner of the 2011 New Orleans Entrepreneur Week IDEApitch, which culminated with a investment pitch opportunity led by Jim Coulter, founding partner of TPG Capital. NOvate Medical Technologies is a New Orleans-based medical device development company focused on commercializing low-cost medical products. NOvate’s first product offering, SafeSnip, is aimed at [...]
As Fox Sports reports, the Saints’ talent evaluation for the NFL scouting combine has gone entirely digital. Micky Loomis and Sean Payton, the Saints’ General Manager and Coach, respectively, use a variety of digital applications to manage the endless stream of empirical data on NFL prospect performance analysis. STATS LLC, the global sports statistics and [...]
The New Orleans-based Receivables Exchange, the real-time online marketplace for working capital financing, announced that receivables trading volume on its market-based platform increased 466% in 2010. This nearly five-fold growth indicates that businesses are embracing the Exchange’s online working capital marketplace as a proven method of managing cash flow. The company also announced that businesses [...]
Louisiana Tech University is sending a team to compete in this year’s business plan competition at Rice University. 42 teams in several categories compete for $1,000,000 + in cash and prizes. The Louisiana Tech team company is Shua Tech Chemical Systems. ShuaTech’s purpose is to produce cleaner, cheaper diesel fuel made from local natural gas. ShuaTech is planning [...]
