Startups

The push to make the company’s leafy greens available across Food Lion’s entire footprint of 1,100 stores in the Mid-Atlantic and South comes as it plans for a $25 million expansion at its West Creek indoor farming facility.

Looking to jumpstart its growth, the company that connects moms with personal assistants to help handle errands and parenting tasks, has expanded into Northern Virginia.

Scott’s Addition-based Babylon Micro-Farms recently unveiled The STEM Garden, a hydroponic device used to grow vegetables indoors and geared toward classroom instruction.

The company started with straws and takeout boxes and has since expanded to have more than 100 single-use products made of sugar cane and corn-based starch.

“The customers we have right now have an issue with knowledge management, that issue is sharing what the best of their employees know with the employees who are newer,” said Rising Tide CEO Jeff Corbett. “That’s where AI comes in.”

Two years after launching as a standalone telehealth clinic with a focus on rheumatology, Remission Medical is branching out by contracting itself out to other health providers. The local startup is slated to start offering virtual rheumatology care on behalf of Hampton Roads-based health system Sentara Healthcare next month. Under the arrangement, Remission’s practitioners will provide… Read more »

Tracy Marcus, who for 25 years sold primarily municipal bonds for firms like Signet Banking Corp. in Richmond and Ramirez and Co. in New York, debuted her eponymous fashion brand last month.

Fore Craft Cocktails now has a line of five flavors and distribution deals in nine states, with more in the works.

Shaken Not Spurred, fashioned from a horse trailer, will be at least the fourth mobile bar venture to pop up in the area in recent months.

Noosh, an eggplant-based dip and spread that’s similar to hummus, is the latest student-run food company to launch out of the school’s Bench Top Innovations program.