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Link: Iron Yard opens Spartanburg space

The Iron Yard’s health care IT startup accelerator will launch from this location July 15, according to its website.Applications are due June 7.

Link: Careport Helps Patients’ Family and Medical Practitioners Organise Aftercare

The post-hospitalisation period can be complex to manage, for both healthcare practitioners and the patient’s family. This new US startup has developed an app designed to help provide post-acute care solutions.

Link: Digital health accelerator to launch in South Carolina

Now a tech accelerator called The Iron Yard in upstate South Carolina is launching its own digital health accelerator.

Link: Mayo Clinic and Abbott Labs to mine S.C. startup field at The Iron Yard

Upstate South Carolina has designers, startups and The Iron Yard, a thriving accelerator, educator and network of co-working spaces. It also has hospitals and venture capitalists eager for software that transforms healthcare.

Link: SXSW Interactive Accelerator 2013 Finalists - CarePort

The fifth annual SXSW Accelerator took place March 11-13, 2013 in Austin, Texas. A live audience, as well as a panel of expert judges, discovered advancement…

Link: RidePost Events

RidePost just launchedRidePost Events, and their first partnership is with Firefly Music Festival to help get their 65k+ attendants to and from Dover, DE the weekend of June 20-23 .

Link: The Iron Yard: South Carolina’s New Healthcare Startup Accelerator

A new health startup accelerator has launched in South Carolina that’s accepting applications for new companies looking to commercialize ideas in the medic

Link: Iron Yard sets up first digital health accelerator in Southeast US

Digital health entrepreneurs in the Southeast now have a new source of help for launching a company: The Iron Yard in Spartanburg, SC. The organization has already had one class of tech startups and now is expanding to digital health.

Link: Mayo Clinic and Abbott Labs to mine S.C. startup field at The Iron Yard

Upstate South Carolina has designers, startups and The Iron Yard, a thriving accelerator, educator and network of co-working spaces. It also has hospitals and venture capitalists eager for software that transforms healthcare. A partnership with The Iron Yard will bring innovators to Spartanburg this summer to create the Southeast’s first digital health accelerator.

Link: The Iron Yard Launches Health Accelerator in the Southeast

The Iron Yard, an incubator and accelerator in South Carolina, today announced the launch of a new accelerator focused on health. The Digital Health Program follows in the footsteps of other health accelerators, such as DreamIt Health, Rock Health, and Blueprint Health.

Link: New partnership could change future of transportation at Clemson

A new partnership between Clemson University and the local ride sharing venture, RidePost.com could change the future of transportation at the university.

Link: New business accelerator spawns new tech company

Two Upstate entrepreneurs have launched a new technology company that gives some insight into the types of ventures that could spawn from the business accelerator coming to downtown Spartanburg — The Iron Yard.

Link: Middle School Students See Technology Brought to Life

Earlier this spring, Mason Steward and Eric Dodds from The Iron Yard company spoke with the students in my Technology classes. They talked about some of the “fun stuff” they are doing in the computer programming classes that they teach as a community outreach.

Link: A Long Chat with Matthew Smith of The Iron Yard - SouthernAlpha

While it may seem somewhat counter intuitive that one of the nation’s most highly respected accelerator/incubators in the country would call Greenville, SC home, The Iron Yard has garnered the respect of entrepreneurs nationwide.

Link: The Great Discontent: Matthew Smith

One of our founders, Matthew Smith, talks with The Great Discontent about art, motorcycles, and the internet. 

Link: Introducing RidePost, the new ride-sharing program

Parking and Transportation Services has partnered with RidePost to launch a more cost effective, social network for ride-sharing that has the potential to provide us with added features and analytical options that will help to quantify how many cars and emissions we are reducing on campus.

Link: The Iron Yard launches design program

Once accepted to Digital Product Design, students will undergo three months of an intensive design class focusing on digital products. They’ll learn from designer professionals and mentors, while working on both team and individual projects. At the end, The Iron Yard works to place each student at a job of their choosing, or they get a tuition refund after six months of job searching.

Link: Digital ridesharing board RidePost launches, will hire two

RidePost, one of the newest startups in the ever-growing cadre of D.C. transportation options, will be looking for a community manager, a back-end engineer, and possibly a front-end engineer in the coming months.

Link: Downtown's dynamic decade

From new schools to restored buildings, Spartanburg’s heart is pumping, leaders say

Just five years ago, downtown Spartanburg was buzzing.