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For the last five years, Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia has topped the charts as the most innovative liberal arts school in the nation by US News & World Report. Behind that ranking is a mix of classes and off-campus experiences designed to build the next group of innovative
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The fintech-focused VC firm TTV Capital set out in late 2021 to raise $150 million for its next fund. This week, the Atlanta-based team announced it oversubscribed that fund, the sixth in the company’s history, at $250 million. The oversubscribed Fund VI includes pension funds, endowments, foundations, family offices,
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Tennessee startups have a new local investment pool to tap into thanks to LaunchTN and funding secured through the American Rescue Plan. The state was one of four across the country to receive additional State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) funding under the American Rescue Plan, according to a statement
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Can you imagine spending $80 million on a single-use product? Andrew Levy and Sam Birdsong saw that happen on multiple occasions while producing videos for enterprise companies over the last ten years. The two Athens, Georgia-based founders and filmmakers realized a fundamental flaw when it came to how companies think
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Social media not only created new job opportunities for budding marketers, but also gave rise to an entirely new subset of celebrities. The social media influencer is ubiquitous on platforms like Tik Tok on Instagram today. And those influencers are bringing in some serious cash, as the influencer marketing industry
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While Falaya is tackling a universal problem in the real estate world, its name is deeply rooted in its home turf of Louisiana. Borrowing from a word in the Choctaw language for long river, the goal of the early-stage startup is to connect the different parts of the real estate
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Atlanta’s startup community is known for turning out fintech and SaaS success stories. But the next startup to become a household name could be in the Age Tech space, thanks to a growing number of innovators and investors in town. If you haven’t run into the term just
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A college English class might not be the first place you’d think a software startup would get off the ground. But that’s exactly where the concept behind Queues was born. Samuel Porta was given an assignment during his freshman English seminar at Georgia Tech that would end up
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The game-winning kick at this year’s Super Bowl by Kansas City Chiefs Harrison Butker had a particularly special connection to Atlanta-based SaaS company iFOLIO. Butker, a former Georgia Tech football star, was one of iFOLIO’s first student-athlete users who used the platform and specialized landing pages to get
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The team behind newly-launched Match Play Brands is out to change the performance sports landscape. The first two brands under the company’s umbrella – PCKL for pickleball gear and Piper for tour-quality golf balls – look to bring top products to sports enthusiasts of all levels. Match Play Brands is getting
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Like an estimated 36.5 million Americans, Max Ade and his entire family got swept up in pickleball over the last few years. Ade got a paddle after years of tennis and quickly became a pickleball enthusiast. His parents, also avid tennis players for decades, switched to the sport. Despite
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Attention parents juggling school work deadlines, after school activities, and family obligations (AKA, every parent out there), Joshua Tutu has built a platform just for you. Involvvely, an Atlanta-based platform and mobile app, is a "One Stop Parents and Educators Resource.” Whether ensuring assignments get completed, getting each kid