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Since its inception, Atlanta-based startup MaxRewards has been focused on “helping people make smarter financial decisions,” said co-founder and CEO Anik Khan. The platform initially gained traction in the student loan repayment space, but Khan said he and his team wanted to get closer to an area of FinTech they
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Investors at Atlanta firms Panoramic Ventures and Fulcrum Equity Partners are continuing to back local mobile experience platform Kobiton. The two firms announced this week they are investing an additional $12 million round in the scaling startup. “[Panoramic and Fulcrum] fundamentally understand our unique technology and our competitive differentiators,” the
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Stord has been on the front line of the changing logistics landscape since pivoting into the warehouse space in 2017. That change has been particularly apparent in the aftermath of the pandemic, says Stord co-founder Sean Henry. “When the pandemic started, companies were adopting Stord for agile capacity across their
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One in five Americans now finds themselves in some sort of caregiving role. Yet caregiving remains a largely informal industry, leaving family members to navigate health and legal issues without much guidance. Two healthcare consultants are on a mission to “empower caregivers with the right information and the right services
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“Peaceful” probably isn’t the first word that comes to mind when a startup founder thinks about tax season. But two entrepreneurs in Atlanta Tech Village believe it could be. Their software, TaxZen, is built as a “do-it-for-me” tax filing platform specifically for tech startups and companies looking to maximize
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Casinos and other betting venues are increasingly going digital. That is due in large part to online sports betting, which the American Gaming Association estimates will attract 30 million new players in the coming years. An important entry point for new players is Freeplay games and titles, says Chalkline CEO
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Ty Abernethy has spent the last decade using tech to address the inefficient process of hiring new talent. The University of Georgia grad co-founded ConveyIQ in New York in 2012, an interviewing platform ultimately acquired by Entelo. Atlanta Ventures has taken note of his latest startup, the Atlanta-based candidate engagement
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A new era of branding is upon us, and it is already bringing in big bucks for athletes across the South. As of July 1 of this year, NCAA athletes can be compensated for their name, image, and likeness (NIL), something previously banned for amateur athletes. This can look like
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Video now makes up 80% of all content on the internet. Yet to date, no tech company has completely cracked the code on how to best move all that media data, which continues to rely on outdated client-server technology. Armed with a new $8 million seed investment, the Atlanta-based media
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Before bringing his startup to the sky, Matt Sloane knew how to make headlines. Sloane worked at CNN for 14 years, a majority of which was spent as a medical producer. In April 2014, during the latter part of his tenure at the company, he was asked to speak at
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After a year and a half, a slight sense of normalcy appears to be returning to the Atlanta tech startup community as two staple events converge. Atlanta Startup Battle — the high-energy pitch competition which provides coaching and a final prize of $100,000 — is heading to Venture Atlanta. Startup Battle
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Two Atlanta-based brothers are looking to make the lending space more equitable. Unlike traditional lending platforms, VIVA Finance looks primarily at an applicant’s job status and not a credit score. “Due to the difficulty in accessing reliable employment-based data, these data points are not as heavily weighted in typical