Innovation Roundup
Tech Week Greenville
Tech Week Greenville returns Sept. 20-26 with 10 events across the Upstate GREENVILLE, S.C. (Sept. 13, 2026) - Tech Week Greenville returns for its second year Sept. 20-26, bringing 10 events to venues across Greenville County for founders, tech workers, students and anyone interested in the Upstate's technology and startup community. The week includes a…
A Financial Controller, a Soccer Mom and a GIS Analyst Walk Into Flywheel
A financial controller built a purchasing chatbot. A mom who got stranded after a soccer game built a car care app. A GIS guy built a tool that answers zoning questions in plain English. None of them would call themselves developers. All three were among 12 projects on 12 tables at the AI Innovation Showcase…
Profitable Doesn’t Mean Valuable
By Cherish Benton, July 16, GreenvilleThis week's FutureX Summit at Flywheel Coworking wrapped up with a keynote message every founder needs to hear. Jemiah Battle, Founder & Principal Strategic Architect, Prolelium Legacy Partners, shared hard lessons learned and what signals that your business is valuable. He started with a story I won't soon forget. A…
What Founders Get Wrong About Raising Money
A recap of Flywheel Café: Fundraising Rules for Startups & Angel Investors with Paul Clark, VentureSouth Flywheel Coworking and VentureSouth have been partners in Greenville's startup ecosystem since Flywheel opened its doors, so when VentureSouth managing director Paul Clark presents at a Flywheel Café session, the room pays attention. Not many people will tell you…
The Conference Greenville’s Tech Community Built for Itself
A two-day recap from Grok '26 If you've never heard of Grok, that's partly by design. The conference started in 2011, and is managed by Chris Merritt and Matt Cook, the co-founders of Atlas Local, Greenville's independent coworking space on Draper Street. It was named after a word coined by Robert Heinlein in Stranger in…
The Hidden Engine of AI Readiness in South Carolina
Most organizations are moving quickly to use AI, but many haven’t built the systems behind the scenes to support it. That gap shaped Brad Alexander’s session at the SC Competes Spring Summit, where he focused less on tools and more on what it takes to run AI reliably inside a business, and why South Carolina…
Top 5 AI Prompt Frameworks You Can’t Live Without
Last week’s i4Series event brought together Upstate professionals experimenting with AI to explore ways to use it to solve meaningful business problems. Panelists included Emil Babineau, Founder of Nuvexa AI, and Christopher Kemper, Co-Founder of EMILY Revolutionary Marketing Group. The conversation started with structure, not tools. Babineau noted, "AI doesn't fix unclear thinking. It just…