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Even for founders building life-saving consumer goods, COVID took its toll. Felicia Jackson, the founder of Tennessee-based CPR Wrap, had to make the difficult decision to downsize her already small team during the pandemic. But she remained focused on getting her single-use CPR tool out to more people. “At the
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Atlanta-based Stord is wrapping up Q1 2021 with a Series C funding round sure to turn heads across the supply chain field. The $65 million Series C round, led by new investors BOND, Salesforce Ventures, and Lineage Ventures, brings the startup’s total capital raised over the last 6 months
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Necessity, the old proverb says, is the mother of invention. For two Atlanta entrepreneurs, necessity came after accidentally wiping out an entire year’s worth of work with one click. Brad Smith, a “non-engineer”, met Jack McGlinchey, a product manager, at another Atlanta-based startup. “The two often riffed on the
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Well before COVID, a study conducted by MBO Partners suggested that nearly 5 million Americans called themselves Digital Nomads — independent workers traveling (often abroad) while working full or part-time for a company back in the States. The work from home/work from anywhere realities of our post-pandemic world have made
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TTV Capital has tapped a new partner as the firm grows its investments in the FinTech space. Neil Kapur brings both an operating and FinTech investing background to the Atlanta-based firm. Relocating from his current base in San Francisco, the new role at TTV is a homecoming of sorts for
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Despite the headlines around unicorns and larger funding rounds, Atlanta venture capital leaders Michael Cohn and Sean O’Brien still recognized a problem for local seed-stage companies. Namely, that it is still hard to raise the first few rounds of institutional capital within the region. “For founders who raised capital
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What started as a weekend for tech employees to give back has grown into an international movement to bring non-profits into the digital space. As the name implies, the non-profit organization 48in48 aims to build 48 websites over the course of each 48 hour-long hack-a-thon. Sima Parekh, the group'
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Andrew Vaughan has signed on as Verusen’s new Chief Technology Officer. Vaughan brings his background in engineering, product, and supply chain to the growing Atlanta-based startup. He joined Groupon’s engineering team in Chicago right before the company’s IPO and later served as Hyatt Hotels' Global Chief
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Two eLearning companies are joining forces to improve employee training opportunities. Earlier this month Canada’s Axonify announced its acquisition of MLevel, an Atlanta-based digital learning platform designed to help companies build interactive games to improve engagement and retention through employee training programs. The financials of the deal were not
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As Fulcrum Equity Partners closed its fourth fund, an oversubscribed and totaling $275 million, Frank Dalton and Tom Greer spoke to Hypepotamus about what this means for the future of the firm. “With our fund size, we're now able to become a pretty strong financial partner,” said Dalton.
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In the neverending quest to remember each and every one of our passwords, Trust Stamp has made an acquisition designed to make the process a bit more picture-perfect. The Atlanta-based fraud detection company announced it has acquired PixelPin, an image-based account authentication startup based out of London. PixelPin users select
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Both as a C-Suite executive and a non-profit board member, Dani Cushion has made quite the impact on the Atlanta technology community since moving here in 2015. She served as Chief Marketing Officer of Cardlytics, the Atlanta-based purchase-based financial services company that went public back in 2018. She’s also