Anderson digital design company opens new facility

An Anderson-design company has opened a new facility.

Digital design company RunVirt LLC has opened at 933 S.C. 29 S, Suite D, in Anderson.

RunVirt, a participant identification company that allows users to design bibs used in races, like 5Ks, 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, according to a news release.

RunVirt entered the incubator program in January 2023 as a solopreneur-based business, and thanks to the incubator program, it was able to hire its first employee and begin to scale, the release stated. By the end of the first year of the incubator program, RunVirt doubled its sales.

The 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, the release stated. Now, with a new production line and larger team. It is now up to six employees.

“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,” RunVirt founder Tyler McGraw said in the release. “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.”

Added Anderson County Dist. 2 Councilman Glenn Davis:

“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.”

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