Startups

An array of entrepreneurs received months of coaching and $20,000 through a startup program. This week they took their pitches to the stage in front of investors and sponsors.

The player piano’s popularity reached its peak before the Great Depression, but that isn’t stopping a University of Richmond graduate from taking a gamble on self-playing ivory keys.

After resigning from her post as CEO of Health Diagnostic Laboratory last month, Tonya Mallory is moving away from medicine and stepping into a new venture.

The winner of last week’s pitch competition at University of Richmond created a mobile app to make craft beer jargon more colloquial.

Local woodworkers are launching a spin-off company that manufactures speakers encased in reclaimed wood, and they’re hoping for about $8,000 of help from online donors. And theirs isn’t the only product to seek funds and publicity online.

A local luthier has chosen Manchester as home to his fist solo act, a violin repair and restoration shop.

A music retail veteran and a former Marine plan to tune into the Richmond music scene with a new venue in Henrico.

A crop of growing Richmond companies were in the spotlight in Jackson Ward last night at an annual event hosted by business group Venture Forum RVA.

A VCU professor and his 14-year-old son have jumped into the local beer scene in their own way with a recipe for homemade hot pretzels they sell at breweries and festivals.

A Charlottesville grocery company announced its plans to hire 75 new employees and at least quadruple the size of its Scott’s Addition facility.