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CAV Angels hits $20 million+ milestone
Start Virginia January 30, 2024

CAV Angels hits $20 million+ milestone

When Greg and Marion Werkheiser connected with CAV Angels during their search for seed investors for their augmented reality software startup in 2018, the couple reaped benefits beyond an initial $300,000 infusion. “The investment itself gave us credibility to other investors,” says ARtGlass CEO Greg Werkheiser, a 2000 graduate of the University of Virginia School […]

Inn at Little Washington plans five-star upgrades
Shenandoah Valley December 31, 2023

Inn at Little Washington plans five-star upgrades

After more than 40 years of growing his three-Michelin-star restaurant, Inn at Little Washington chef and owner Patrick O’Connell is nearing his wish of offering guests “all the amenities of great hotels in Europe with the warmth of visiting a private home.” Expansion plans include adding a reception building, two new buildings with 10 guest […]

King George exploring second industrial park
Northern Virginia October 30, 2023

King George exploring second industrial park

King George County officials are negotiating with two landowners where the county wants to build a new industrial and technology park as it looks for a spot to lure more businesses. The existing 149-acre King George County Industrial Park is full, and there’s nothing to offer economic development prospects there. During the past two years, […]

Love at first site
Economic Development September 28, 2023

Love at first site

Home to eight Fortune 500 companies and three Fortune 1000 companies, metro Richmond is “punching above our weight” for a region of 1.3 million residents, says Jennifer Wakefield, president and CEO of the Greater Richmond Partnership. For the third year in a row, the Richmond region was named by Business Facilities magazine as a top […]

Revivicor is building a $100 million Montgomery County facility where it will raise genetically modified pigs bred as organ donors for humans. Photo by Don Petersen
Roanoke/New River Valley August 30, 2023

Revivicor’s $100 million pig-organ facility moves forward

By early next year, Blacksburg-based Revivicor will be raising genetically modified pigs in Montgomery County, with plans to harvest their hearts and kidneys for xenotransplantation into human patients. Founded in 2003 as a spinoff company of PPL Therapeutics (the company that cloned Dolly the sheep seven years earlier), Revivicor provided the genetically modified pig heart […]

Luminoah founder and CEO Neal Piper was inspired to build a better tube-feeding system by the experiences of his son, Noah. Photo by Jeneene Chatowsky
Start Virginia August 30, 2023

Son’s cancer fight inspires startup

The sight of Neal Piper’s then-3-year-old son, Noah, stuck on the couch all day, tethered to an IV pole with a feeding tube after the boy’s cancer diagnosis in 2019 put his father on a new mission. Piper, who had 15 years of experience in commercializing health care products, including 10 years in sales, marketing […]

Bedford Economic Development Authority Chairman Jonathan Buttram and town Community Development Director Mary Zirkle at the former Winoa USA plant Photo by Don Petersen
Roanoke/New River Valley July 30, 2023

Bedford firing up tech training

After Winoa USA closed its Bedford steel abrasives plant in 2020, town economic officials came up with the idea of renovating the empty facility into a regional technical training center for the metalworking industry that could include a commercial foundry. In August, the Bedford Economic Development Authority expects to be closer to that goal, with […]

U.Va. biolab seeks to catalyze region’s growth
Start Virginia June 29, 2023

U.Va. biolab seeks to catalyze region’s growth

Thomas Barker says his seed-stage startup wants to find “modern, modular, functional lab space” to allow the company he co-founded, Vasarya Therapeutics, to be “very efficient and optimal on our research enterprise.” But good lab space is hard to come by in Charlottesville, and what exists is spread around, “so you don’t necessarily get the […]

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