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Jeannie Tarkenton, CEO and founder of Funding U, started our conversation by acknowledging the reality faced by up to 45 million Americans: Talking about student loan debt isn't really an enjoyable topic. "The need to get last-gap funding for school is not fun. But it's
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CoreView has already had a busy 2020. After raising a $10 million Series B round this fall, the Alpharetta-based SaaS management platform (SMP) startup added new international partners, hired several key executives, and reported annual recurring revenue by 116% while growing its user base to 8 million. Today, CoreView announced
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Ten early-stage founders are ready to showcase what they’ve learned over the last twelve weeks as part of The Cranium Incubator. The Incubator, started by veteran Atlanta investor and former Atlanta Technology Angels (ATA) president Joe Beverly, looks to support underrepresented founders by providing a structured curriculum, mentoring opportunities,
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When Stord co-founders Sean Henry and Jacob Boudreau pivoted into the warehouse logistics space in 2017, they knew fixing supply chain problems for brands of all sizes was an important problem. What they didn’t know was that a global pandemic would show the world just how important fixing the
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Now in its third year, Nex Cubed has made a name for itself investing in underrepresented founders in the digital health, edtech, property technology, and fintech spaces. In fact, the latest Nex Cubed digital health accelerator cohort had all minority and immigrant founders, and 50% of its current portfolio companies
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Launch Day for any startup is full of stress, joy...and a few frantic calls with developers to work out last-minute bugs. But Launch Day doesn’t typically coincide with the stress and joy of someone’s actual wedding day. That’s exactly what happened for Chattanooga entrepreneur Kenzie Butera
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It’s common for startups to pitch their idea as the “Uber of XYZ.” While the idiom makes it easy for others to envision what a startup is looking to build, few are actually changing the transportation industry itself. CharterUP, a SaaS startup founded by CEO Armir Harris in Atlanta,
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Alpharetta-based DefenseStorm has raised a Series B round of $12 million this week, just over 16 months after raising a $15 million Series A round. The most recent round was led by fintech firm Georgian, with participation from Atlanta-based TTV Capital. The startup also announced $7 million in growth capital
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Carbice Corporation, an Atlanta-based nanotechnology company born out of Georgia Tech, has closed a $15 million Series A funding round. The round was led by London-based Downing Ventures and Bay Area-based Toyota AI Ventures. The funding is exciting news for a company that is developing technologies that can be found
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Most college students order a pizza and cram for an next exam. But on any given night, students on MindSumo might just be inventing the next big thing in pizza. MindSumo was started in 2011 as a way to help companies crowdsource innovative ideas and for students to get real-world
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Even on a Zoom call, the team at Launch Tennessee knows how to welcome people into their growing community. Ahead of their latest virtual speaker series, Hypepotamus got a chance to connect with Launch Tennessee’s CEO Van Tucker to talk about how this unique public-private partnership is taking tangible
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Georgia has produced both musical hits and technological innovation, so it isn't surprising that the state has produced the latest startup to challenge the status quo when it comes to audio equipment. Audality, based out of Lawrenceville, Georgia, has been working since 2010 to create speakers that change