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Truist Foundation awards grant to The Hill Institute’s GVL Starts to support startup ventures

Truist Foundation has awarded The Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship's GVL Starts a $75,000 grant to support startup ventures.

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S.C. Commerce Office of Innovation announces grant awards

The Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Furman University is one of 10 organizations across the state to receive a portion of $473,000 in grant funds awarded by the South Carolina Department of Commerce...

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S.C. schools usher in innovation centers

Furman University's Anthony Herrera, executive director of The Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, goes on record in a SC Biz News story about the growing presence of business incubators on campuses in the state....

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Why the Upstate market is attracting venture capital

Vincent Harris of Upstate Business Journal (a publication of Community Journals) writes about Greenville, South Carolina, and its growing reputation for attracting venture capital firms. One such firm is North Carolina-based Flywheel Coworking. The company...

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Paladin Pivots: Turning crisis into opportunity

It isn’t the crash course in agility training anyone would have wished for, but for all its chaos, COVID-19 has produced masters of the entrepreneurial pivot. In a new virtual speaker series, “Paladin Pivots: Stories...

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