New Venture Accelerator in the News

Where Cryptocurrency is Vital to Everyday LifeYellow Card’s stablecoin exchanges and payment rails in Africa deliver real world benefits that enable essential financial transactions and empower economic growth  Since its inception, the cryptocurrency industry has...

From Prototype to Commercial Sales – NanoPrintek Marks Critical Milestone  Developing a working prototype of a new invention is a monumental step in the journey from promising entrepreneurial idea to commercial business success – a defining achievement in the...

Shay Pilcher is on a mission…and there’s no stopping her    NVA company founder is doing what many before her deemed impossible The first thing to understand about Shay Pilcher, founder of Auburn New Venture Accelerator company Archangel Industries, LLC and a research...

Farm Hub Wins the 2024 Halloween Business Idea Pitch Competition  Led by Moises Gonzales, a sophomore, majoring in Applied Discreet Mathematics, at Auburn University’s College of Sciences and Mathematics , Farm Hub was named the winner of the 2024 Halloween Business...

Connecting with Malcolm Johnson, Jr.   Living a Life Fulfilled through Entrepreneurship   By Brian Maddox. Malcolm Johnson Jr. aligns to the right side of the field, top of the numbers, inside foot up. He’s running a hitch route: six yards downfield, then back to the...

So, You Want to be an Entrepreneur? Keep Learning.  That’s what successful serial entrepreneur Aaron Contreras says as he returns to Auburn’s Harbert College of Business to finish his degree. Aaron Contreras, Managing Partner of Volcanica Coffee, a Suwanee,...

NVA Entrepreneur-in-Residence Named Private Company Director of the Year by the National Association of Corporate DirectorsGreg Cessna, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Auburn University’s New Venture Accelerator (NVA) and a renowned leader in start-up and established...

EDA Grant Expands New Venture Accelerator's Impact Beyond Auburn University Availability of new business formation and development services for all Auburn area entrepreneurs drives unprecedented success  When Auburn’s New Venture Accelerator (NVA) joined forces with...

XO Armor: Revolutionizing Sports and Medical CareIt began when an Auburn athletic trainer and an Auburn engineering professor collaborated to create custom 3D-printed protective devices for two injured Auburn football players. Each player went on to score a touchdown...

NVA Business Startup Raising Awareness About Mental Health ConcernsMalcolm Johnson, Jr., Auburn football transfer to Bowling Green State University, and founder of Start a Conversation is launching a nationwide initiative called “Conversation Monday” to raise...

Auburn Wins Another SEC Championship!Auburn Student-Athlete Entrepreneurs Win SEC Start Up Business Idea Pitch CompetitionIn the inaugural SEC Startup Student-Athlete Pitch Competition, it was impressive that two of the five finalists were entrepreneurial teams from...

Epiphany spurs creation of life-changing personal management tools for students and others with intellectual and developmental disabilitiesMission to equip students, family members, and caregivers with an integrated, easy-to-use “independence” platform grew out of an...

Auburn University Establishes New Venture FundThe Auburn University Kickstart Fund to provide pre- and post-seed funding grants to help finance promising Auburn New Venture Accelerator companiesAuburn University has formed the AU Kickstart Fund, a designated fund...

New Venture Accelerator-mentored startup, 2019 Tiger Cage winner Flashtract acquired by Trimble Inc.Transaction enables Flashtract to accelerate its already stellar growth while rewarding company founders, employees and investors alike When Flashtract, one of the New...

Conversation Moves the NationEditor’s Note: I recently sat down with a group of college students who shared their commitment to raising awareness about the range of everyday mental health challenges affecting themselves and their peers. What I found was a remarkable...

New endeavor helps aspiring women entrepreneurs take flight and soar.The Auburn University New Venture Accelerator (NVA) formally announced the launch of its Women’s Entrepreneurship Collaborative (WEC) on March 29. The collaborative’s goal is to empower more women to...

AbGlo Awarded Top Prize at the 2024 Tiger Cage Pitch Competition A competition that started with twenty-one student-led business startups competing for $80,000 in seed funding came to conclusion on March 29 when the six teams who advanced to the final round of the...

Success Fuels Room2Room Movers Expansion Beyond Auburn A college move-in experience that students and families are raving about. It takes more than just a good idea to start a community-based business, let alone build that venture into a flourishing enterprise poised...

Beyond the Pitch: A Student's Journey out of their Comfort ZoneLauren Stansell, a Harbert College of Business student, content creator, and aspiring entrepreneur is one of six finalists in the Tiger Cage Pitch Competition. Her new business venture, Focus Friends, is...

NVA's EDA Grant Delivers "Game-changing" Value Auburn’s New Venture Accelerator Highlights Benefits to Local Community Businesses When Auburn’s New Venture Accelerator secured more than $1.3 million in primary and matching grants through the Build to Scale Program...

March Madness is down to Six Startup Business TeamsTwelve outstanding student-led teams, representing the Harbert College of Business, the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, the College of Liberal Arts, the College of Human Sciences, the College of Agriculture, and...

Twelve teams advance to Tiger Cage semifinals. Twenty-one outstanding student-led teams, representing the Harbert College of Business, the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, the College of Forestry, the College of Liberal Arts, the College of Architecture, Design and...

Duo partners with New Venture Accelerator to host Black History Month eventsBy Troy TurnerTwo entrepreneurial businesswomen living in the Auburn area who refer to themselves as “The Duo Partnership” have another way of jokingly describing their relationship: “We’re...

VivoSphere Nominated for Prestigious Ignite Award at the Upcoming SLAS International Conference and ExhibitionAuburn Engineering faculty start-up to be featured on Innovation AveNEW, a premiere exhibit space featuring the most innovative new bio-pharmaceutical...

Connecting doctors with their patients, one step at a time For this NVA company founder, solving a problem is intensely personal. Kermit Farmer honors his late wife’s legacy as a prolific patient educator in cancer treatment and care. You can call it an unfathomable...

An Auburn Man You'll Want to Do Business With. Brooks Fuller, Room2Room Movers for College StudentsA Lifelong Auburn Man Born and raised in the shadows of Auburn University, Brooks Fuller loves Auburn – all of it – from the enthusiastic spirit that emanates across the...

Yellow Card co-founders share lessons learned from their work on the African continent Rapidly growing former New Venture Accelerator company spends two days on campus paying it forward to aspiring entrepreneurs, fellow FMA students If raising tens of millions of...

AbGlo Wins 2023 Halloween Business Idea Pitch Competition The 5th Annual Halloween Pitch Competition, hosted by the New Venture Accelerator and the Harbert College of Business, saw 20 teams, comprised of 35 team members, representing 7 colleges, compete for $5,000 in...

VivoSphere’s Patented Tissue Engineering Technologies Drive Scalable Production of Cancer Tissues for Disease Modeling and Therapeutic Drug TestingAuburn NVA company creates a cost-effective, precise test bed for high-throughput, pre-clinical evaluation of critical...

Start-up from Auburn's New Venture Accelerator Drives Dramatic Improvements in MRI Diagnosis Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has become one of the most impactful medical advancements ever made to detect a wide range of diseases, conditions and injuries. As MRI...

Crisis Management: Auburn people helping Auburn people.  A startup business’ entrepreneurial spirit shows how the spirit of Auburn is always present when you need it the most. There are moments, days, and seasons that mark our memories forever. For a recent high...

Auburn Entrepreneurship: Auburn University Student Solves Range Anxiety for Electric Vehicle Owners Auburn University’s New Venture Accelerator does many things to help new entrepreneurs get up to speed, but there may be no catching up to one student who hit the fast...

Professor-Student Collaboration Drives Auburn EntrepreneurshipAn expanding array of experience, expertise and collaborative vision makes business start-up success at Auburn a family affair  By Michael Ares There’s no better example of how cross-campus collaboration...

From a backyard to Jordan-Hare Stadium, the secret sauce to this new business, is the sauce By Troy Turner Rommeo Holloway, until a year ago, worked in a factory making automobile parts. In fact, he worked there for 17 years.  Then one day he told himself, “I’ve got...

A Passion for Giving People a Shot at the American Dream How One Auburn NVA Company Aims to Drive Creditworthiness for New U.S. Arrivals   Zakariya Veasy, a senior in Computer Software Engineering at Auburn’s Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, is passionate about...

Have you ever heard it said, "It is better to give than to receive?" Auburn Football Player, Elijah McAllister is asking for your support.   Editor's Note: Elijah McAllister has a foundation that is seeking donations to support a back-to-school Supply Drive in...

Ironman, Legos, and a Passion for Change Auburn entrepreneur aims to power the performance, endurance of U.S. combatants   It is hard to trace exactly when Shay Pilcher, founder of Archangel Defense and a research engineer at Auburn’s Samuel Ginn College of...

Dual Passions Shape Master of Finance Candidate and Auburn Professor's Entrepreneurial Dream Drone-based agricultural services start-up targets unmet needs of smaller farms   For as long as he can remember, Scott Rowe has been passionate about two things –...

Grandma Val takes lemon, makes lemonade; but with NVA's help, a new business is born “Her vision to take her product to wholesale embodies one of the NVA’s biggest goals, and that is to help grow scalable businesses right here in Alabama.” -- Ayshia Green-Calloway,...

Considering a food-truck business? AU's New Venture Accelerator, Harbert grad, eye ways to help new startupsMay 8, 2023 By Troy TurnerFranky Junes Weeny Wagon owner Rick Lanier earned a degree at Harbert College of Business, and now he wants to assist others in...

It's All About Passion...…and when it comes to entrepreneurs, you know it when you see it. Passion. For what you believe in. For what you see possible. For the courage to follow that passion. To do what it takes to make your dreams come true. You can’t fake passion,...

Keeping their Eye on the Ball Tennibot not only weathered the global pandemic, supply chain disruptions and an increasingly cautious venture capital landscape – they’ve continued to thrive and grow through it all.For Tennibot, the Auburn NVA company developing a...

Dropllel Awarded Top Prize at the 2023 Tiger Cage Pitch CompetitionA competition among sixteen student-led business startups came to conclusion on March 31 when the four teams who advanced to the final round of the 2023 Tiger Cage Business Pitch Competition presented...

NVA Start-up Leverages Intellectual Property Developed at Auburn to Drive Space Exploration, Battlefield Logistics and the Internet of ThingsNanoPrintek is leveraging Auburn’s world-renowned additive nanomanufacturing technology to create exciting new commercial and...

March Madness is Here: The Tiger Cage Finals. Ten outstanding student-led teams, representing the Harbert College of Business, the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, the College of Agriculture, the College of Liberal Arts, and the College of Veterinary Medicine,...

Malcolm Johnson Jr. Student-Athlete. Entrepreneur. Someone you should know.Editor’s Note: Having been privileged to serve as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Auburn’s New Venture Accelerator (NVA) for the past year, I’ve had the opportunity to meet with many young...

At Auburn, Entrepreneurship is a Team Sport Auburn’s New Venture Accelerator leverages a wealth of experience, expertise, and dedicated resources to help students, faculty and local area entrepreneurs succeed.There are many ways a technological breakthrough,...

OMNIS Wins Halloween Business Idea Pitch CompetitionThe 4th Annual Halloween Pitch Competition, hosted by the New Venture Accelerator and the Harbert College of Business, saw 19 Teams compete for $5,000 in seed funding, before a panel of industry professional judges...

Entrepreneurs Just Figure It Out.Starting life on her own at the tender of age of 17, Jennifer Nay was goal oriented and driven. A college education was at the top of her list. But the question was – how?   With no money, but lots of dreams stretched out before her,...

Calling all Female Entrepreneurs.  It’s time to act.Simon Sinek said, “Dream Big. Start small. But, most of all, start.” That’s exactly what Lia Junghans, Senior, majoring in Business Administration and Marketing, at the Harbert College of Business, has done all her...

Auburn’s New Venture Accelerator Ready for Prime Time Stable of promising new companies well-positioned to attract savvy investors and forward-looking business development partners  Author’s Note My name is Michael Ares, owner of MDA Consulting, LLC, a strategic...