2022 Articles About Birmingham’s Start-Up Scene
January:
Funding News:
- Edify Online secures bridge round of $600,000
- Birmingham-based medical device startup receives $1M seed round
- Startup funding in Alabama: Where funds are going and what’s next
- Quest Diagnostics to acquire Pack Health
Birmingham Investors/Start-Up Scene:
- Auburn University helps student and faculty entrepreneurs make their business startup dreams a reality
- Acclinate, Prosper partner on new platform aimed at reducing health disparities
- Robust tech and innovation activity expected to continue into 2022
- The week in bankruptcies: Resource Fiber LLC
- Birmingham Business Alliance’s Supplier Scale program names cohort
- Boulo Solutions incorporates MomSource Network under its brand
- Let the games begin: Nominations for Alabama Inno Madness bracket challenge are open
- What Pack Health’s acquisition by Quest means for the company, Birmingham
- Techstars completes its second cohort, its businesses boost local innovation scene
- Guest notebook: The quiet tech ecosystem that is helping make Birmingham a launchpad for tech companies
- Velocity Accelerator names its 2022 cohort
February:
Birmingham Investors/Start-Up Scene:
- 2021 BBJ NextGenBHM General: Denita Bearden, Innovate Birmingham
- 2021 BBJ CEO Awards: April Benetollo, Momentum
- BIRMINGHAM’S BIG DEALS SIGNIFYING A SEAL OF INVESTMENT APPROVAL
- Entrepreneurship surged during the pandemic. Here are some tips for taking the plunge.
- 2021 BBJ NextGenBHM General: Brigham Godfrey, 3ph Inc. and Alabama Cardiovascular Group
- Innovation Portal director weighs in on statewide business plans
- Prosper’s health tech accelerator has big aims as it starts this month
- Landing makes push in nontraditional rental industry model
- ResBiotic expands leadership team
- SEC private investment rules could stifle startup funds, critics say
- CEO offers insight into ConcertCare, IDC merger
- INFLCR joining Teamworks’ partnership with Meta
March:
Funding News:
Birmingham Investors/Start-Up Scene:
- INTRODUCING THE INNO MADNESS BRACKET
- Vote for startup success through Alabama Inno’s inaugural Innno Madness program
- Prosper’s HealthTech Accelerator launches with five companies
- City seeks to sweeten the deal for local businesses with RISE program
- Four remain in competition for Alabama Inno Madness
- Birmingham startup StenCo secures partnership with Cargill
- Alabama Inno Madness enters final round of competition
- HudsonAlpha to launch a new accelerator
- Bronze Valley Accelerator names its next cohort
- Fundrage wins competition at SXSW
- Harmony Venture Labs launches first in-house startup
- What does Birmingham need the BBA to be in 2022?
- Linq secures contract with FanDuel
April:
Birmingham Investors/Start-Up Scene:
- The power of competitions for building entrepreneurial ecosystems
- Metro area entrepreneurs selected for Endeavor’s ScaleUp BHM program
- Alabama-based company joins Johnson & Johnson Innovation’s JLabs accelerator in D.C.
- BIO Alabama event connects Alabama research institutes with international industry partners
- Construction begins on $78 million genomics building at UAB
- GoodJob claims victory in Alabama Inno Madness competition
May:
Funding News:
Birmingham Investors/Start-Up Scene:
- Drew Honeycutt stepping down as CEO of Innovation Depot
- Beyond competitions: The pathways for startup learning, growth and acceleration in Alabama
- Viewpoint: Alabama still not the top priority for state lawmakers
- It’s still wild in college athletics’ name-image-likeness scene
- The Unspoken Effects of Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurs Open Up About Mental Health
- How Covid-19 changed the dynamics for small businesses
- Burnout isn’t just a turnover issue. It’s affecting entrepreneurship.
June:
Funding News:
- Birmingham-based Chonex raises $5.78M in seed round funding
- Local startup receives $1M to connect corporate sponsors to research institutions
Birmingham Investors/Start-Up Scene:
- Birmingham’s startup leaders reflect on tech job growth
- Subscription-based digital platform aims to ease transfer of wealth after death
- Birmingham microbiome-based nutrition company presents new data at international meeting
- Workplace mental health-focused startup sees future in Birmingham
- Birmingham startup aims to solve staffing shortages in hospitality industry
- CAVU launches crowdfunding campaign on selective investing platform Republic
- UAB startup awarded $1M grant toward development of vaccine
- Insured Nomads acquires Peanut
- Insurance startup expands coverage area to Alabama
- Entrepreneurs selected for third cohort in Voltage idea accelerator
- Birmingham biotech company receives $1.2M toward research
- Birmingham startup offering same-day delivery of cannabis products, alcohol
- Harmony Venture Labs startup to train first-time founders
July:
Funding News:
- Velocity Accelerator graduate company plans next steps, future in Birmingham
- Birmingham-based startup app raises $500,000 in seed funding
- Software company to move HQ to Birmingham after Alabama Futures Fund deal
Birmingham Investors/Start-Up Scene:
- A new strategy for growth in Birmingham: Attract remote-working talent
- These factors are fueling the pandemic-era’s boom in new businesses
- CNBC ranking shows Alabama has plenty of areas for opportunity
- A World Games Debriefing: A View from Athletes, Hotels, and Vendors
- How a Birmingham startup aims to leverage AI in treating brain tumors