Honored to received this award alongside an outstanding group of Knoxville startups! Huge thanks to Innov865 and the many people involved in making Knoxville such a special place for tech innovation. University of Tennessee Research Foundation - UTRF, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Spark Innovation Center at the UT Research Park, PYA #lithiumion #lithiumionbatteries #batterysafety
Congratulations to our 2024 winners! 🎉✨🏆 Business leaders, students, and investors gathered in person and online to celebrate Knoxville’s entrepreneurial spirit at this year’s startup day! Meet our winners! 🌟 ✅ Andrew Hanna of Safire Technology Group, Inc. secured the Judges’ Choice Award, presented by the Innov865 Alliance ✅ Luke Wiseman of Loop won the Crowd Favorite Award, presented by Three Roots Capital and Carrasco Trump, PLLC ✅ Wesley Pitts of KnoxBots took home the Emerging Entrepreneur prize, presented by the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville ✅ Tommy Nguyen of StoragePug took home the Traction Award presented by CGI And a special shoutout to all the startups and emerging entrepreneurs that pitched this year: 👏 Algaeo 👏 Authentrics.ai 👏 HumanAI 👏 Perseus Materials 👏 Safire Technology Group, Inc. 💡 AluminAiry 💡 Flock Analytics 👉 Learn more about this year’s Startup Day: https://lnkd.in/efS-j-Mk Thank you to our supporters, judges, hosts, attendees, and everyone who made this Startup Day one to remember! 🙌 We hope to see you again next year! 🥳