Cam Doody

So we've got a lot of the infrastructure that we need to, uh, to really start bringing a lot of, um, tech-based companies, uh, into the city.

And it's, it's really started to happen.

Yeah, no, I actually, I grew up in Knoxville, which is about an hour and a half north of Chattanooga.

And then I went to school at Auburn, which is down in Alabama.

And I drove through Chattanooga, you know, 800 times during college, but I never actually, you know, the only time I'd ever been was when I was a kid.

And we raised our first round of funding from a group called Lamp Post Group, which is a venture incubator in Chattanooga.

How much was that?

It was $600,000 was our seed round.

That was in late 2012.

Did you do that as a note or equity?

It was basically a note.

Yeah, that was one of the prerequisites.

But, you know, Chattanooga is this crazy awesome town.

It's tucked into the mountains.

It's been voted the best outdoor city in the country for like five years running now by Outdoor Magazine.

And, I mean, it's just a really awesome place.

It's been, you know, one of our challenges obviously being based in Tennessee is recruiting, you know, top tech talent.

And, uh, the fact is Chattanooga really is an amazing place to recruit to.

It's just, you know, there's like world-class mountain biking, rock climbing, hang gliding, like anything you'd ever want to do outside.

It's, you know, it's right there and it's really beautiful, clean place.