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CloudFactory Scores $65M Growth Equity Funding Investment to Scale Operations

CloudFactory, a Durham-based startup that connects remote workers around the world with employment on AI-based data projects, has announced a $65 million growth equity funding investment from FTV Capital and Weatherford Capital. “Our investments in demand generation and business development will help grow CloudFactory’s visibility with would-be AI disruptors,

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The Ray Details Partnership with Panasonic and GDOT on V2X Roadway Project

Atlanta-based non-profit The Ray partnered with GDOT and Panasonic this past August to create a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) data ecosystem designed to enable Georgia’s first connected interstate roadway. “Partnering with Panasonic and our department of transportation made perfect sense,” co-founder Harriet Anderson Langford tells Hypepotamus. “We want our highway to

Fintech Startup Spreedly Secures $75M Growth Investment to Power Global Expansion

Fintech Startup Spreedly Secures $75M Growth Investment to Power Global Expansion

North Carolina-based fintech startup Spreedly has announced a $75 million growth investment from growth equity firm Spectrum Equity to accelerate product development and support the company’s global expansion plans. Spreedly CEO Justin Benson tells Hypepotamus that the funding will help fulfill three specific company goals designed to increase Spreedly’

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eSports Giant Epic Games Acquires Startup Quixel to Increase 3D Realism In Video Games

North Carolina-based eSports behemoth Epic Games, best known for its wildly popular game Fortnite as well as the global game development platform Unreal Engine, has announced its acquisition of the Swedish startup Quixel. The move is designed to improve the three-dimensional photorealism of Epic Games’ graphics. Quixel is renowned for

On-Demand Car Service Spiffy Doubles In Size With New Acquisition

On-Demand Car Service Spiffy Doubles In Size With New Acquisition

Spiffy, a North Carolina-based startup specializing on on-demand car care services and technology, has announced the acquisition of Your Location Lubrication (YLL), a Florida-based company focusing on high-volume rental car preventative maintenance. The acquisition, which more than doubles Spiffy’s size, adds YLLs’ innovative oil-change system, technicians and fleet to

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This Startup Makes Filing Cryptocurrency Taxes from Different Exchanges Easy

In 2018, product consultant Vamshi Vangapally needed to figure out how to file taxes on his cryptocurrency transactions. He had tried to alleviate his anxiety around trading cryptocurrency by using a bot to automate his trades. It didn’t work. When the bot he’d programmed posted nearly 20,000

Klearly Visualizes Your Sales and Marketing Teams' Contributions to the Company's Revenue

Klearly Visualizes Your Sales and Marketing Teams' Contributions to the Company's Revenue

After more than 20 years leading marketing and sales teams at companies of all types and sizes, Alex Krawchick realized a secret: many of those teams didn't actually know how they were generating revenue. “I have seen dozens of CMOs come and go because they cannot prove their