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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.

The new funding infusion comes about two years after Buddy pivoted to focus on selling software to insurance companies, though it still offers the on-demand accident insurance product that it originally introduced in 2018.

WriteHuman, which allows users to build off work created by other AI chatbots, is the lone locally based concept in this year’s Lighthouse Labs accelerator program.

Continuing with its goal of selling American-made fire pits, Henrico-based Burly is looking to new products to spark increased momentum in its fifth year in business.