ACCELERATOR

We help build strong, sustainable tech businesses.

EDUCATION

Education needs a kick in the pants, and we're using tech as a boot.

COWORK

Working space for designers, developers, writers and entrepreneurs.

EVENTS

We help produce some of the best events in the southeast.

Meet Jennifer, a student in the Academy.
There are lots of educational programs out there, and Jen explains why she chose to come to ours.
We need tech that puts the care back in healthcare.
From wellness apps to enterprise software, we're helping startups build the future of health.
Learn to build production-quality web apps.
Looking to switch careers? Want to diversify your skill set? We're building a programming school in the heart of the Southeast.
The Iron Yard Demo Days – Spring 2013
After three amazing, difficult, and rewarding months, our Spring 2013 Accelerator teams are ready to share their products with the world—and investors. This year we’ll launch on our home turf at the Grok conference, then hit the road and head to west, northeast, and back into the heartland of the south for pitch sessions. We’d [...]
Startups Need Conviction
The Startup Life™ is thickly shrouded with threats of difficulty. First you’re required to have an astoundingly novel idea that promises to capture a gigantic industry or market. (Or at least be able to convince people of those things.) Next, you need a killer team, preferably one with a brilliant engineer co-founder who’s willing to [...]
What We Learned Starting an Intensive Design Class
This is a post from Marco Suarez explaining what we’ve learned on the journey of starting an intensive design school. There is a gap that is widening between the education students are receiving and the skills companies require. The most obvious disconnect is in software and technology. Universities fail to keep up and the proponents [...]
Will Keown » The Iron Paddle

I’ve been working over at The Iron Yard for Emblem Film Co. and Gamemaster Inc. for the past few months. It’s been a blast!

Rich Winley Dishes On €˜No Chains, a€™ Food App and Launching a Mobile Product

After participating in The Iron Yard, a Greenville, South Carolina-based, 13-week tech accelerator associated with Startup America Partnership’s Global Accelerator Network, Rich Winley launched the public version of No Chains, a mobile app that helps travelers and foodies find the best non-franchise restaurants that they’ve never heard of.

Peter Barth helps shape Greenville into tech hothouse

Peter Barth has a spot on the end, and the sparse simplicity of the area — his MacBook, a few loose cords and little else — offers no hint of its occupant’s formative role in the bustling and ever-changing world of high-tech entrepreneurship.