Allyson Jacob : Innovation & Job News

Union Kitchen and Compass Coffee are teaming up to offer free classes to would-be entrepreneurs. The new endeavor is called Made in DC.

Allyson Jacob, innovation news editor since Elevation DC first began publishing news in January 2013, has written her last piece for the publication.

The Washington D.C. Economic Partnership is headed to a retail conference in Las Vegas and wants to know which stores to bring back to the District.

Today's jobs are a little off the beaten path--we're serving up doughnuts and theater alongside our normal dose of development, design and marketing jobs.

Power Supply, a local healthy meal provider in the paleo and vegetarian space, has acquired D.C-based Healthy Bites and Los Angeles-based eliteEATS.

NextGen Angels, an angel investor group for entrepreneurs based in the District, just closed a $1M funding round. The group is also expanding to other cities.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is expected tomorrow to announce a new program called DC Innovation Opportunity that will serve high-potential, low-income D.C. residents.

After hitting $1 million in sales, Alexandria-based SoapBox Soaps is expanding by offering a second line of products and taking its original line to Sam's Club and 1,700 CVS stores across the country.

When it announced it had acquired Disruption Corp in Arlington, VA, and Hattery in San Francisco, 1776 cofounders Evan Burfield and Donna Harris and now managing director Paul Singh faced lots of questions from the #DCtech community. They just released a podcast to explain more on their plans.

1776, the growing incubator, coworking space and seed fund, announced today that it has acquired Hattery in San Francisco.

What happens if you cross an Uber with a Metro bus? You get Bridj, a hybrid transportation company that is quietly beta testing in DC.

Happy spring! Jobs are blooming and we've collected a few for you this week.

Wash Cycle Laundry, a dry cleaning and laundry service that hires locals who need help getting back into the workforce, recently landed a contract with GWU, necessitating the increase in staff.

Blastroots, an online lobbying platform for activists, announces that it has been acquired by BIS Global, the company behind CharityEngine.

Fiestah, an event planning platform that was built in New York and went through DreamIt Ventures accelerator in that same city in 2014 launches in DC as part of a multi-city roll-out in 2015.