Fresh off the launch of The Company Lab's Sustainable Mobility Summit in early May, Tyler Cole sits down with CO.LAB's CEO @Tasia Malakasis. As a successful entrepreneur herself, Tasia is well positioned to guide the nonprofit's efforts to scale up startups in Chattanooga. Local industry expertise, corporate customers, cutting edge academic research, and a growing investor community all await those startups who are accepted into CO.LAB's accelerator program, which focuses on helping sustainable mobility startups scale. Chattanooga, otherwise known as Freight Alley or Gig City, boasts competitive advantages in this space including a citywide fiber-optic network, urban testbeds for autonomous vehicles and distributed resources, and a long history of successful public-private partnerships. Listen in to learn how CO.LAB plans to make the world a smarter, more sustainable place through connecting entrepreneurs with the right resources.

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