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Thursday, March 2, 2017 – Charlottesville, VA. Taliaferro Junction, LLC, and Jaffray Woodriff, announce the purchase of Main Street Arena, comprising the land and building at 230 West Main Street on Charlottesville’s Downtown Mall.
Friday, February 17th, 8:00 am - 2:00 pm at The Rotunda at the University of Virginia
Come and engage with entrepreneurs, designers, investors and aspiring creators like yourself. Whether you are building a business now or just want to learn something new, this is the conference for you. This year’s keynote speaker is W.L. Lyons Brown (Darden MBA '87), Founder and CEO of Altamar Brands.
Other speakers include Claire Mitchell and Sara Yeatman Currier (Co-Founders of TreadHAPPY); Cristof Meyer (Senior Director Strategy & Innovation at Egg Strategy); Brett Brohl (Director Startup Next Food and Tech at Techstars); Jim Cheng (Co-Founding Partner at CAV Angels); Christian Duffus (Co-Founder at LEAF College Savings); and Joel Selzer (CEO and Co-Founder at ArcheMedX).
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A new company with a global safety and environmental mission, SafeSharp LLC, is announcing its initial fundraising period commences September 22, 2016, to bring its breakthrough technology to market. SafeSharp is entering its initial public fundraising round, to fund additional patents and to begin field testing of the SafeSharp Dissolver Gel and optimal delivery methods.
August, 2016: Mint Life recently teamed up with Glassdoor to determine the best U.S companies to work for according to its employees, and Charlottesville's own WillowTree was cited as one of 7! Whether you’re on the hunt for your first job, or simply looking to shift gears, here’s a selection of Glassdoor’s “Best Places to Work 2016” winners, chosen by those who know a company best – employees.
For the second time since opening its doors in 2005, Marketing Mojo, a digital marketing agency founded in Charlottesville, Va., has been recognized by Inc. magazine for its business growth.
Charlottesville, VA – May, 2016 – NWG Solutions is excited to announce that Teddy Rivkin has joined our dependable team to further develop IT services and relationships in the ever changing world of technology. Teddy has more than 25 years of experience managing Information Technology. As a previous owner of a Charlottesville computer service company, and overseeing Musictoday's e-commerce operations as Chief Technology Officer, Teddy is uniquely positioned to guide the growing technical team at NWG Solutions in support of our clients throughout Central Virginia. We look forward to continuing to raise your expectations as your profoundly dependable IT partners, with our new Director of Technology. NWG Solutions, founded in 2001 by Ben Thomas,is an IT Company in downtown Charlottesville with a unique focus—dependable service and solutions for all of your IT needs.
Contact:
Aimee Dumaresq
Office Manager and Media Communications
434.979.0555
adumaresq@nwgsolutions
Buffalo Grove, Illinois and Charlottesville, Virginia (December 15, 2015) – RestorGenex Corporation (OTCQX: RESX) and Diffusion Pharmaceuticals LLC, a privately-held biotechnology company, announced today that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which a newly formed subsidiary of RestorGenex will merge with and into Diffusion in an all-stock transaction, with Diffusion surviving as a wholly owned subsidiary of RestorGenex.
MadiDrop, a Charlottesville startup business, is on the threshold of positively affecting the lives of potentially billions of people worldwide. MadiDrop is a porous, biodegradable ceramic tablet designed to release silver ions that will disinfect water. One tablet can be reused continuously for six months, potentially purifying about 500 gallons of water.
Cavion LLC, a pharmaceutical company developing T-type calcium channel inhibitors for the treatment of neurologic diseases and solid tumor cancers, announced today that it has closed a $5 million private placement of convertible notes with new and existing investors. The proceeds will be used to expand Cavion’s platform of T-type calcium channel inhibitors through licensing and the development of new chemical entities and to support clinical trials in neurology and brain cancer. Cavion has raised over $18 million from private investors throughout the United States and received over $15 million in non-dilutive resources.
“Our investors appreciate Cavion’s mission to bring relief to patients suffering from cancer and neurologic diseases such as peripheral neuropathy and Parkinson’s,” stated Cavion President and CEO Andrew Krouse. “We are excited by their support for Cavion in this critical period as we develop multiple T-type calcium channel inhibitors and prepare for clinical trials in brain cancer and neurology that will launch in 2016.”
LUMI Juice was selected as a recipient of the Virginia Living magazine Made in Virginia 2015 award.
WHEN: Thursday, October 29, 7:00 PM
WHERE: CitySpace, 100 5th St NE, Charlottesville, Virginia
When companies and organizations try to innovate with a new business strategy, they often stumble and fail to produce the results they anticipated. Jeanne Liedtka, strategist and professor at the Darden School of the University of Virginia, will present how many companies have learned to merge business and design into Design Thinking, one of the hottest topics in the business world. Accelerated by the spectacular rise of Apple and IDEO, Design Thinking is a proven and repeatable problem-solving protocol that great organizations employ to achieve extraordinary results. Jeanne will discuss the process of using design techniques like observation, brainstorming, prototyping, experimentation and learning to uncover truly innovative and successful solutions.