Investor News
Late last year, the State of Tennessee changed its Department of Commerce and Insurance’s securities rules to exempt venture capital firms from the requirement of full registration as an investment adviser. As CEO of Launch Tennessee Lindsey Cox penned in The Tennessean newspaper, that rule change and new flexibility
Feature
Husband and wife team Rodrigo Dantas e Silva and Danielle Hirsch were established professionals when they moved from Brazil to Atlanta in 2017. Silva had built up his career at international banks and at industry giants like Accenture and EY. Hirsch had an impressive resume filled with work in the
B2B
What happened after the Baltimore Bridge collapsed? How are ships are moving in the Red Sea today? What does the Gaza humanitarian pier look like right now? Especially in the world of government and defense, there are a lot of very important questions that can only be answered through robust
Founder Spotlight
Parth Arora doesn’t yet have his college diploma. But he does have something that most entrepreneurs envy: A successful startup exit. Arora founded the fitness app Third Dimension Fitness as a student in Georgia Tech’s undergraduate computer science department. The virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality startup is
Feature
Ricardo Theiner is a veteran of international startups, having worked at companies in Austria, England, and the United States. He made his mark on the Atlanta startup scene as the co-founder of the TravelTech platform KLEENERLY, which was acquired in 2020, and as the City Launch Manager of the popular
Feature
North Carolina-based Front Porch Venture Partners (FPVP) is the latest Southeast-based firm to raise its second fund, and the team is ready to deploy that capital in the regional startup ecosystem. FPVP announced today it closed a $20 million Fund II, which is quadruple the size of its fund that
B2B
Atlanta’s latest construction-focused technology startup is looking to bring the puzzle pieces together for busy architects. Skema, which was recently accepted into ATDC’s (Advanced Technology Development Center) Accelerate Program, uses artificial intelligence to overcome long-standing limitations seen across the AEC (architecture engineering construction) industry. The startup’s platform
Feature
Atlanta-based Apptega has been in growth mode recently. The cybersecurity compliance team has made some high-profile leadership hires, including bringing on new CEO Dave Colesante late last year. It has also closed a new round of funding to help the team build and grow in the new era of AI-driven
B2B
Blake Stoner was studying at Morehouse College when protests broke out in Ferguson, Missouri after news that Michael Brown was fatally shot by police. As a civic-minded college student, he went up to Ferguson to help register people to vote, with the hopes that more engagement in the elections could
B2B
“Location, location, location” isn’t just a mantra for potential homebuyers. It underpins the decisions both individuals and companies make every day, says Savannah-based entrepreneur Christopher Nichols. We rely on location data to get around cities we know well and those we are visiting. Companies use it to pinpoint their
Grants & Funding
After bootstrapping its first year, Carputty raised its first seed round in 2020. Since then, the startup has raised over $100m in funding and as co-founder and CPO, Joshua Tatum has spent at least as much of his time on fundraising as he has on building the Carputty product and
Feature
Ifrah Khan has a knack for building marketplace startups. She founded her first one, an on-demand babysitting mobile app called Usit, while she was still a student at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. Over three years, Atlanta college students earned over a million dollars through babysitting and thousands of