Bringing Products to Life in Richmond
There are stumbling blocks, and there are building blocks. Sometimes it’s a matter of perspective. BLDR, a Richmond-based product and design team, understands how difficult—and worthwhile—it can be to push through the chaos in order to build something great. Prior to founding BLDR, Brandon Lewis and Luke Rabin spent their early careers helping to launch […]
Notch Joins the Center for Machine Learning at Capital One
Notch, Richmond’s fast growing data agency, announced today that it will join Capital One as part of the Center for Machine Learning. An in-house consultancy and center for product delivery, the Center for Machine Learning helps millions of customers at Capital One with their financial lives. Notch has moved its cross-functional team – ranging from […]
Local Popsicle Slingers Become Tree Elves
After a busy season of slinging pops around Richmond, Paul Cassimus is trading his fleet of popsicle carts and colorful umbrellas for elf hats and Christmas trees. Cassimus, the owner of King of Pops Richmond, and a band of real live elves are once again bringing magic to the holidays. An offshoot of the ever-expanding […]
Richmond Inventors Compete in American Dreams Contest
Two Richmond inventors are finalists in the Home Shopping Network’s American Dreams Contest. Myrf Bowry and Leah Dodge, the duo behind the interior design firm Decorum, created Dipadidoda, a decorative container for store bought dips that caught the attention of contest organizers. In conjunction with Good House Keeping magazine, the winner of the American Dreams […]
Handyma’am Goods Looks Toward Expansion
Local workwear brand, Handyma’am Goods, recently launched a Kickstarter campaign in order to return to production on their flagship garment: The Coverall. Designed specifically for women, Handyma’am has been filling a wide gap in the workwear market for three years now, but due to challenges in securing American manufacturing for their products, the brand has […]
Mayoral Candidates: Joe Morrissey
At Grid, we believe that everyone in Richmond has a superpower – a unique combination of personality traits and aptitudes that they bring effortless to everything they do. What’s your superpower and how will you share it with RVA? My superpower, if it qualifies as a superpower, is my relentless tenacity and work ethic. I’ll use […]
SoundView Project Taps into Street Energy
On a lively stretch of E. Broad sits a brand experience shop that boasts a bold name and even bolder ideas. Release the Hounds, which offers advertising and graphic design led by John Mills, is known for its street-level window display that has featured everything from art to pop-up shops over the years. This fall […]
Nurturing the Next Generation of Bold Entrepreneurs
The innovation and entrepreneur ecosystem in Richmond is thriving. And that is, in part, because of the strong universities and corporations that call Richmond home. As the president of Virginia Commonwealth University and Chairman of the Virginia Biotechnology Park’s Innovation Council, I see every day the actions fostering the environment that landed RVA on CNBC’s […]
Compelled to Share: TaTaTopper
Marilyn Collins and Michelle Logan share a story: They both had double mastectomies and struggled to recover, due to the lack of sleep after surgery. If lack of sleep is consistent and unrelenting as time goes on, then it may cause sleep disorder issues which might mean that a sleep study will be needed to […]
Finding Clarity
By Luis Davila Joe Belsterling thought his career path in politics was all figured out. Several twists and turns later, he launched MajorClarity, an interactive tool to help others like him find their passion. It’s fair to say that Belsterling was more eager than most freshmen in college. Rather than use his freshman year […]