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Saleo, the live demo experience startup, is the latest Atlanta SaaS platform to raise a Series A round. The team just announced the close of its $13 million Series A, led by Emergence Capital with participation from existing investor Tech Square Ventures. San Francisco-based Emergence Capital is no stranger to
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You blinked and all of a sudden it’s Q4. Now it’s pop quiz time: Can you write out the top five things you accomplished professionally in Q1 of this year? Or, perhaps more critically, what do you think your manager would write? It can be hard to remember
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Just six months into business, North Carolina-based PerfectScale has already landed impressive customers like Paramount Pictures, Fiverr, and Monday.com. That quick growth is due to the fact that the startup is fixing a very big problem for those building in Cloud environments: Scaling Kubernetes is expensive and time consuming.
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Atlanta-based SingleOps has a new CEO. The SaaS startup named Mark Sedgley as its new top executive last week, taking over from co-founder Sean McCormick who has been in the position since 2014. SingleOps has reached an inflection point that most startups hit as they continue to scale. And Sedgley’
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450 investors, representing 300 funds, were in Atlanta this week to meet one-on-one with founders and hear pitches from 83 promising startups on stage at Venture Atlanta 2023. 80% of those funds came from out of town to participate in the conference and the dozens of pre and post-event gatherings
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For the last ten years, Google has been sending Google in Residence teams to universities across the country to increase diversity within the tech community. This year, Morehouse College students have their own Googler on campus helping with introductory computer science classes. Utsav Lathia, a product manager on Google Lens,
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The winner of Fintech South’s 2023 Innovation Challenge wants to bring community banks into the Netflix Era. No, your banker isn’t going to star in any binge-worthy series any time soon (at least that we know of). But rather Vertice AI, an Atlanta-based SaaS startup, wants to help
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Atlanta has served as fertile ground for both enterprise teams and early-stage founders over the years. From Downtown to Midtown to Sandy Springs, Metro Atlanta’s business districts are filled with both Fortune 500 headquarters and startup offices poised for growth. But how do startups and large corporations actually meet
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The race is on to decarbonize our economy, electrify our roads, and create a cleaner energy supply. Startups from around the globe are stepping up, leading to a boom of CleanTech venture funding over the last several years. But to really accelerate change, there needs to be stronger connections between
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On any given day, Downtown Nashville is buzzing with country music legends and up-and-coming artists who flock to Music City from around the world. But this week, it was Tennessee tech founders and investors who took to center stage. 3686 Festival, Nashville’s entrepreneurial conference hosted by LaunchTN, brought the
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Terri-Nichelle Bradley has brought on big name partners throughout the years while building Brown Toy Box, an educational toy company dedicated to promoting diversity and inclusion in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics). Hypepotamus covered Brown Toy Box in 2018 when it landed a partnership with NASA. Earlier this
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Three minutes. That’s all the time founders have to share their startup story on the Venture Atlanta stage this year. Now, that might not seem like a lot of time for a founder to pitch their idea, product, team, and vision to a room full of potential investors. But