Dubbed the “AirBnb of stuff,” the startup will allow people to rent out their non-real estate items – from lawnmowers to stereo speakers – all for a small daily or hourly fee.
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Will the real Coleman Sweeney please stand up?
An obscenity-titled marketing campaign for a local organ donor advocacy group is turning heads on West Broad Street, and online. But the real Coleman Sweeney isn’t really a bad guy.
PartyRVA readies for national expansion
PartyRVA, an 18-month-old online party planning platform, has raised enough capital to fund its next phase of growth – going national.
VCU-born startups bearing fruit
Fourteen companies that sprouted from Virginia Commonwealth University’s entrepreneurial support program have earned more than $1 million in the year since it launched.
Va. Tech grad’s startup rooted in Richmond
Three years after passing out flyers to test his new business in Short Pump, Ryan Farley and his lawn care startup are back in the Richmond market. Farley, a Virginia Tech graduate and Maryland native, first lived in Richmond after his sophomore year for an internship with Capital One. He and a fellow Tech student,… Read more »
Trading Day: Local SEC filings for 6.2.16
Two local bank execs and a capital management firm director sell off shares in an otherwise quiet week on the public companies beat.
Incubator gets six-figure boost from financial giant
A shot in the arm from one of Richmond’s biggest employers is helping a local startup incubator recharge its budget. Lighthouse Labs, a 4-year-old business incubator that provides local startups no-strings-attached funding, business education and mentorship opportunities, was awarded a $100,000 grant last week from Capital One. Todd Nuckols, founder and managing director at Lighthouse… Read more »
West Coast ad agency opens office in Richmond
A newcomer to the Richmond advertising scene is making its entrance to the market through a pair of Golden Arches. San Francisco-based H&L Partners has set up shop in Shockoe Bottom after picking up the regional co-op account for McDonald’s. The local office adds to others in St. Louis and Boston, with a fifth office… Read more »
Westhampton redevelopment: take two
In an effort to win over city planners and a vocal group of neighbors, the developers behind the proposed transformation of a West End movie house have tweaked their planned mixed-use development to make it shorter and smaller. Jason Guillot and Stefan Cametas last week submitted revised plans for their Westhampton on Grove, a project… Read more »
College rental startup settles into VCU
An online real estate startup with an appetite for college towns has tapped Richmond as its newest market. RentCollegePads.com began listing rental properties located around Virginia Commonwealth University in March. The off-campus housing site lets landlords list properties and caters to students looking for rentals and roommates. Dominic Anzalone spun RentCollegePads.com out of a class… Read more »