RunVirt, LLC Celebrates Grand Opening with Ribbon Cutting Ceremony New Facility to Boost Local Economy in Anderson County June 28, 2024.
Anderson, South Carolina – RunVirt, LLC is pleased to announce the grand opening of its new facility with a ribbon cutting ceremony today, June 28, 2024, at 10:00 am. The event took place at their new building at 933 Highway 29 S, Suite D, in Anderson, South Carolina.
The ceremony featured remarks from the County Administrator, Rusty Burns, and Councilman Glenn Davis, along with a guided tour of the new facility. Local dignitaries, community leaders, and local business partners were expected to attend.
RunVirt, a leader in participant identification, moved into this new facility after starting out as a small start-up company in the incubator space provided through the Anderson County Economic Development office. RunVirt entered the incubator program in January of 2023 as a solopreneur-based business, and thanks to the incubator program, it was able to hire its first employee and begin to scale. By the end of the first year of the incubator program, RunVirt doubled its sales. This explosive growth in sales allowed RunVirt to open its own facility with a state-of-the-art production line that had never before been used in the participant identification space. Now, with a new production line and larger team (now up to 6 employees), RunVirt is poised for more growth and innovation within its industry and looks forward to partnering with the ACED and all that Anderson County has to offer!
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“Starting RunVirt has been a labor of love for me and my family. What began as my first out-of-college job trying to learn a trade has turned into a lifelong obsession with “participant identification,” of all things. When I created RunVirt, I had the luxury of spending close to a decade in various positions related to the production of a very specific product: the Race Bib. That said, I had ZERO experience starting a small business and all that comes with it. Luckily for me, I was able to meet Burriss Nelson and his excellent team at ACED and get started with the Incubator program at 1428. It’s hard to start from ZERO. How do you afford enough space when you are just getting started? How can you scale? They were our cheat code and paramount in helping RunVirt go from a “hobby” business in the bonus room of our house to a full-fledged manufacturer with a state-of-the-art production line right here in Anderson County within the span of a year.”
— RunVirt, LLC Founder Tyler McGraw
“I am excited to officially welcome RunVirt to Anderson County, specifically Council District Two. Our success in economic development recruiting in 2024 and over the past several years is unprecedented. The County’s primary aim is to encourage continued economic development through strategic, efficient modernization of our technology and public services infrastructure.”
— Anderson County Councilman Glenn Davis, Council District Two
For more information about RunVirt, please visit their website at www.runvirt.com.
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