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Katie Malone

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  1. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Katie Malone

    A new Shreveport pitch competition just put $20k into Southern energy innovation (opens the original)

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    Big bets on energy technology are piling up across Louisiana. Startup Prize held its first energy competition, awarding cash to two energytech companies. Then, Black Bayou Energy Hub announced a $1.6 billion investment in its Louisiana facilities. Despite all eyes on energy tech, a biotech win broke through, too. Beken Bio, which recently expanded to New Orleans, landed a grant to advance its cancer detection technology. Read on for news on all the above, and more Louisiana money moves. Two Sout

  2. Article · Aug 26, 2026 · Katie Malone

    Louisiana's $100B SpaceX project is also a bet on data centers in space (opens the original)

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    SpaceX’s $100 billion Louisiana spaceport could eventually play another role beyond launching rockets: helping put computing infrastructure in space. As part of its plan to support thousands of launches each year, the new base in Vermilion Parish’s Pecan Island “will facilitate missions to Earth orbit for building orbital data centers,” Louisiana Economic Development said in a release officially announcing the project. SpaceX and Nvidia are partnering to launch satellites designed to run AI comp

  3. Article · Aug 24, 2026 · Katie Malone

    Tulane Innovation names permanent partnerships director: ‘My job is making sure the rest of the country notices’ (opens the original)

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    Louisiana’s innovation and economic development scene has a few new faces to know this month. At the Tulane University Innovation Institute, a new permanent executive director of industry partnerships is now in place as the go-to person to help students turn big ideas into potential startups. In St. Bernard, the local economic development organization has a new CEO, after convincing an industry veteran to leave her home parish farther north. And, because no Louisiana business roundup these days

  4. Article · Aug 11, 2026 · Katie Malone

    Can live AI interviews prove students didn’t use AI to ‘cheat’? OralExam, built by a Tulane prof, says yes (opens the original)

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    A Louisiana startup is building a tool to help higher ed find its way in the AI age by combining the tech with a teaching approach thousands of years in the making. OralExam.AI is not built to grade papers or run detection scans. Instead, it uses agentic AI to conduct interactive conversations with students, assessing whether they truly understand the material they submitted. Cofounder Darryl Glade, a professor at Tulane University in New Orleans, modeled the platform around the Socratic method,

  5. Article · Aug 4, 2026 · Katie Malone

    Behind a quiet quarter for Louisiana venture capital, small deals are stacking up (opens the original)

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    Venture capital investing in Louisiana slowed in Q2 2026, continuing a downward trend since the end of last year. The activity that is happening, however, bucks national patterns. Early-stage companies are still attracting investor attention, versus a trend in other ecosystems toward more established companies getting VC money. And AI firms are not yet hoovering up all the dollars. “We haven’t had more than 15 deals close in any one quarter across the state,” observed Kwamena Aidoo, cofounder of

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