The Company Lab, the nonprofit started more than 12 years ago to help startup businesses in Chattanooga, is changing both its focus and location this year after Tasia Malakasis took the helm of CO.LAB last year and undertook a strategic study for its future.

CO.LAB will be joining in the promotion of Chattanooga's growing logistics and smart city focus with a business development program targeted at what it calls the "Sustainable Mobility" sector. The new accelerator program will be housed in the newest Society of Work complex of offices and apartments in North Chattanooga near the Chattanooga/Hamilton County INCubator and will focus on developing and growing startup and emerging companies that can capitalize on the logistics hub in Chattanooga and the smart city research being done using EPB's fiber optic network at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga.

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