The Virginia-based seed fund adds a new company to its investment portfolio: a startup making significant headway in the home automation industry. The Launch Place, a nonprofit organization in Danville, Virginia, that provides support and funding for startups in the...
Local officials and Kyocera SGS Tech Hub LLC — which announced in September it was bringing 35 jobs and $9.5 million in investment to the Dan River Region — broke ground Monday morning for its planned facility at the Cyber Park. Company President Jason Wells —...
Local farmers soon will see new technology specifically designed for agriculture, thanks to two separate entities. The Virginia Cooperative Extension was granted $104,000 from the Tobacco Commission for a “SOVA Agribusiness Information Technology Program.” The program...
Blue Ridge Fiberboard plans to invest $2 million to improve efficiency at its Danville plant. The Danville Office of Economic Development announced the investment Thursday at the former Masonite plant. Blue Ridge Fiberboard employs 119 people at its plant at 250...
After more than eight years of work by regional officials and years of wrangling with bureaucratic regulations, leaders finally broke ground at the 3,500-acre Berry Hill Industrial Park on Thursday afternoon. The groundbreaking ceremony was for phase one development —...
