Small Businesses with Big Ambition: Triquetra Technologies, Inc. (T2)
By Barrett Baker Owners: Tom and Terri Richards Founded: 2008 Location: 11836 Fishing Point Dr., Suite 200/300, Newport News Number of Employees: 26 A defense contracting company headquartered in Coastal Virginia, T2 has employees in Massachusetts and Georgia, as well as overseas (currently in Afghanistan). The core business has two distinct product areas: the first […]
Small Businesses with Big Ambition: Couragio Consulting
By Barrett Baker Owner: Gary Plaag, Lead Consultant Founded: 1998 Location: Williamsburg Number of Employees: 1 Couragio Consulting is a consulting company that helps people with communication skills. “Sometimes our interaction with other people can be challenging,” says Gary Plaag, owner and lead consultant. He works with people on those skills, including interpersonal or communication […]
Small Businesses with Big Ambition: Health Research of Hampton Roads, Inc. (HRHR)
By Barrett Baker Owners: Ted and Rita Quinn Founded: Founded in 1998 by Dr. Tim Fisher, who remains as medical director of HRHR Location: 720 Thimble Shoals Blvd., Suite 110, Newport News Number of Employees: 13 Health Research of Hampton Roads (HRHR) is on a mission to advance the health of our local, national and […]
Small Businesses with Big Ambition: For All Handkind
By Ryan Miller Owner: Gayle Forman, Kelsie McNair and Kimberly McKinnis Founded: 2016 Location: MacArthur Center, 300 Monticello Ave., Space 215, Norfolk Number of Employees: 6 For All Handkind (invented by artists and created for artists) began as a popular pop-up with an online store and workshops for designers and makers. The store planted roots […]
Small Businesses with Big Ambition: Nomad Notebooks
By Angela Blue Owners: Ben Scott and LaMar Smith Founded: 2017 Location: Newport News Employees: 2 Peninsula-based graphic designers Ben Scott and LaMar Smith had set out to find notebooks that featured mixed types of paper to “get outside the box” with their thoughts, drawings and sketches. These notebooks, as they soon discovered, “just don’t […]
Small Businesses with Big Ambition: Superior Float Tanks
By Angela Blue Owner: James and Steven Ramsey Founded: 2011 Location: 431 West 25th St., Norfolk Employees: 9 James Ramsey isn’t the type of guy you’d expect to own a company that manufactures float tanks. “I am not from the holistic industry,” he admits. He first learned about the concept of float tanks in 2008. […]
Small Businesses with Big Ambition: ivWatch
By Ryan Miller Owner: 91 angel investors Founded: 2010 Location: 1100 Exploration Way, Suite 209, Hampton. Moving to Newport News Tech Center by the end of 2018. Number of Employees: 41 ivWatch is a small business composed of doctors, nurses and inventors who have introduced innovative technology through their medical device to detect intravenous (IV) […]
Small Businesses with Big Ambition: Hashtiv
By Grace Silipigni Owners: Bevon Moore and Niah Mason Founded: 2017 Location: 2460 E. Little Creek Rd., Norfolk Employees: 10 Wanting to transform and advance both the standards and functionality of social media platforms, Norfolk residents Bevon Moore, CEO and Niah Mason, CTO launched Hashtiv in August 2017. In less than a year, the personalized […]
Small Businesses with Big Ambition: DroneUp
By Ryan Miller Owner: Tom Walker Founded: 2016 Location: 676 Independence Pkwy., Suite 120, Chesapeake Number of Employees: 15 Within five hours of Hurricane Irma striking the shores near Tallahassee, Fla., UAS (Unmanned Aircraft System) pilots conducted an aerial inspection of over 300 square miles in response to the emergency crisis. These hovering UASs (better […]
Small Businesses with Big Ambition: Amplified IT
By Grace Silipigni Owner: Tim Lee Founded: 2009 Location: 812 Granby St., Norfolk Employees: 25 Amplified IT is a national Google for Education powerhouse residing in Norfolk’s NEON District. The consultancy’s contemporary office space on Granby Street houses 16 local team members with a remaining nine employees working throughout the United States, Canada and the company’s […]