Startups

Startup seeks cure in fine swine

Using free-range pigs to make high quality Italian meats, a Mechanicsville start up seeks to take the food world by storm.

Your homework: Build a business, save a life

Two VCU graduates were part of a team of students that developed a prototype for a low-cost operating table designed for use in developing countries. Now they have formed a company, Operation Simple LLC, to continue development and testing of the product for future sale.

The food chain, revised

A Charlottesville startup wants grocery shopping to be a team sport, and the company has expanded here with a handful of partners already signed up.

A new kind of capital fund

There’s a new group of Virginia investors looking to invest as much as $250,000 at a time into growing businesses, and reasons it might succeed where others have failed include a social component and low-pressure requirements for members.

Startup sprouts from S&K ruins

Three former S&K Menswear employees are trying to take the S&K model and run it online. They’ve packed a 3,000-square-foot warehouse with men’s dress clothes and invested $150,000 in the startup.