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Pindrop is hitting the road this summer to reintroduce itself as a security company with a whole lot more to say. Those in the Atlanta startup community know Pindrop for its “voiceprinting” and voice fraud detection platform that was an early cybersecurity darling. The team has raised over $200 million
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2021 was the year of fintech. One out of every five venture dollars invested went into the sector, according to CB Insights. Fintech M&A, IPOs, and exits nearly doubled year-over-year as well. 2022 has been a bit of a rockier time for fintechs, prompted by the general VC
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Tampa’s startup community caught the attention of long-time investor Scott Kelly, so much so that he’s decided to relocate his VC firm and business development accelerator Black Dog Venture Partners from Arizona to the city. Black Dog provides venture capital consulting, corporate finance, and business development services for
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Kentucky-based AppHarvest garnered celebrity backers and an impressive list of investors before going public via SPAC in early 2021. The AgTech startup has a big vision to change the way we feed the country…so it is only fitting that one of its former executives would go off and launch
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First, a business trivia question: What is the difference between supply chain management and procurement? If you are tripped up by those definitions, you aren’t alone. “If you ask ten people what “procurement” is you are likely to get more than 15 answers,” Anders Lillevik told Hypepotamus. But procurement,
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Let’s talk taxes. Maybe that statement makes you want to scroll away. But founders might want to sit up and keep reading…because accounting can be a big headache even in the smallest of startup ventures. As early-stage founders themselves, the team behind Atlanta-based TaxZen felt the pain of
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The Southeast’s battery industry is operating on a full charge these days. The most recent sign is the North Carolina-based FlexGen announcement of a $100 million Series C funding round this week from Vitol and a pool of previous investors. FlexGen originally got off the ground working on military
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The fintech landscape has transformed drastically since a group of Birmingham bankers joined forces to open up the startup Quantalytix in 2017. Still, CEO Christopher Aliotta saw a gap in what was available in the lending vertical of fintech. “In our roles as bankers, and specifically as it related to
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Giving away something for free turned into a big money opportunity for Atlanta-based Curricula. The cybersecurity training platform launched a free version of its plan last November as a way to give back to the community and drive more awareness around security issues. “The moment we launched that we were
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There are a lot of new faces around the Techstars Atlanta office these days. Tim Dorr, managing director at Techstars Atlanta Powered by Cox Enterprises, joined in February and got right to work recruiting new startups for the accelerator. Anastasia Simon joined this May as an investment principal after spending
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What constitutes a pre-seed company these days? By definition, these companies have shown identified a market opportunity and are seeking outside investment to build and gain customers. You’d expect they might go to an early-stage VC, an angel network, or even a specialized accelerator to pitch their vision. But
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The latest additions to the Atlanta BeltLine are all about getting down to business. The BeltLine MarketPlace is the city’s first small business incubator designed to support minority and women-owned businesses with access to both business coaching and crucial retail space along some of the most highly-trafficked walking areas