Startups

A company involved in making the Richmond region a hub for pharmaceutical manufacturing is in fundraising mode after it began operations at a Petersburg production facility last year.

Starting with a makeshift aquarium in a kiddie pool when he was a child, Kole Elkin now runs Kole Tang Aquatics providing commercial and residential aquarium services and fish care advice.

“With the aging of the population, our services are needed everywhere,” said founder Paige Wilson. “And our goal is to be nationwide.”

Activation Capital is launching the Frontier BioHealth program for up to 10 startups from August to November to groom life sciences companies in the area for the long term. 

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 »