Raising + Rising 2024

As a special part of Innov865 Week, Raising & Rising will showcase seven entrepreneurs and their businesses to a room full of investors, industry leaders, and local Knoxville companies. 

The Knoxville Entrepreneur Center is excited to host the seven companies in this year’s showcase. Raising & Rising is a special event for companies who are currently in the early or late stages of raising capital, and the event is an opportunity to network and tell their company’s story.

October 3rd, 2024

10:00am-12:00pm

CGI Office in Riverview Tower (Tenth Floor)

900 South Gay Street Knoxville, TN 37902

Meet Our Participants:

Tenant Text

Founders: Rob Monday & Josh Wright

 LinkedIn | Website

TenantText is a next-generation platform built to address problems facing landlords needing to serve their residents at scale.   TenantText’s intelligent property assistant, Charlie, addresses an impressive amount of property management and maintenance issues using surprisingly simple conversations.  Charlie is available 24/7 with 10-second responses to residents, offered in many languages.  No login or password needed!

ThinkUp 

Founder: Douglas Mapp

 LinkedIn | Website

ThinkUp, LLC is a talent improvement company aimed at enhancing workplace engagement, efficiency, and performance. It provides brain skills development for organizations, helping employees strengthen attributes like analytical thinking, decision making, and learning agility. The company’s services are designed to increase the capability of an organization to overcome challenges in efficiency, productivity, and other unforeseen obstacles. 

 

Modern Day Stay at Home Mom 

Founders: Kimberly & Corey O’Neal

LinkedIn | Website

Modern Day SAHM empowers stay-at-home moms with flexible and rewarding careers.

AllTales

Founder: Peyton Wilfley

LinkedIn | Website

AllTales is the first publishing platform to break down fundamental barriers in storytelling by offering unmatched support in both writing and illustrating. By enabling creators to bring their stories to life with unprecedented ease, AllTales is transforming the publishing industry. Currently focused on picture storybooks, the company is strategically poised to expand its offerings to include a wide range of publication types. This pioneering approach positions AllTales to capitalize on emerging market opportunities.

 

Unified Track 

Founder: Dustin Bainbridge

LinkedIn 

Unified Track transforms the education landscape for counselors, students, and  families by leveraging AI-driven predictive analytics for goal setting and deploying a sophisticated early warning system. 

 

OnRise Care 

Founders: Kim Quigley & Derrick Furlow Jr.

Kim’s LinkedIn, Derrick’s LinkedIn | Website

Onrise is the first-to-market, athlete-specific telehealth solution that provides: Peer Support by Retired Athletes Licensed Therapy Psychiatric Care.

Fluffy Friends

Founder: Allison Campbell

LinkedIn | Website

Fluffy Friends for Children with Chronic Conditions is tackling medically-induced post-traumatic stress disorder, physician burnout, and physician-patient trust. We are building our first initiative: a trauma-informed program that is intended to prevent and ameliorate adverse psychosocial effects of chronic illness, especially medically induced PTSD, and enhance trusting physician-patient relationships, which also helps with work-life fulfillment through sustained connections.

We would like to give a special thanks to our presenting sponsor, CGI.

Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world. With 88,500 consultants and professionals across the globe, CGI delivers an end-to-end portfolio of capabilities, from strategic IT and business consulting to systems integration, managed IT and business process services and intellectual property solutions. CGI works with clients through a local relationship model complemented by a global delivery network that helps clients digitally transform their organizations and accelerate results.

About CGI:

Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world. They are insights-driven and outcome-based to help accelerate returns on IT and business investments.

In all they do, their goal is to build trusted relationships through client proximity, providing industry and technology expertise to help meet the needs of your customers and citizens.

To find out more about CGI, you can visit their website.

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