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“Man, it’s been wild,” Federico Castellucci III says over the phone. It was the beginning of April, and the president and CEO of Castellucci Hospitality Group was preparing to debut a new pop-up, takeout steakhouse concept Castellucci & Sons. (It did well enough that the company introduced a second
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The novel coronavirus COVID-19 is impacting businesses across the globe, including Southern startups. We want to know how you're being affected, as a startup founder, employee, investor or general member of the community. We're publishing selected stories sent directly from you, only making edits where necessary
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In the seven days leading up to Saturday, April 18, tech startups around the Southeast raised about $4M — and the only part that makes that figure somewhat unclear is because of Charles Barkley. There’s a joke in there somewhere, but now probably isn’t the time. But it is
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As if we needed anything else to make life more complicated during the COVID-19 pandemic, there's breaking news that evil hackers are still as terrible as ever. Because of this, Atlanta-based cybersecurity video training platform Curricula is now offering a free coronavirus phishing test to companies so that
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The novel coronavirus COVID-19 is impacting businesses across the globe, including Southern startups. We want to know how you're being affected, as a startup founder, employee, investor or general member of the community. We're publishing selected stories sent directly from you, only making edits where necessary
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Contrary to popular belief, capital is still flowing into the coffers of startups around the South. Not only did an Atlanta company score a $6.6M win (hopefully helping it deliver more Ls to counterfeiters), but there was activity in North Carolina and even Arkansas last week. Got news about
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It’s been just over three weeks since the World Health Organization characterized the novel coronavirus as a pandemic, and now the slowing of capital has started to appear. Still, there were three significant instances of funding activity, and between March 29 and April 5, it all happened in Atlanta.
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If you didn’t already know that coronavirus was a thing, you might not even have noticed that the Atlanta Founders Academy had switched plans. Not long ago, Google for Startups announced the Atlanta Founders Academy, which would assist 40 startup founders through an 8-month series of programming and workshops
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When the going gets tough, there's still work to do. As founders — aspiring or active — figuring out how the roadmap has changed and what to do with new realities and challenges from the COVID-19 crisis, Hypepotamus wants to be a resource to the community by connecting our audience
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The news had been very positive for HUNGRY going into the spring season. The catering platform, which connects office workers and other groups to talented chefs in their cities, just closed a Series B of just under $20 million at the beginning of March. Among the investors were famous names,
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Welcome back! In case you missed some of last week’s funding news, tech startups in the Southeast continue to raise capital. This week, it’s North Carolina that’s proving to be the hot spot for investment, as four companies from the Tar Heel State account for almost $40
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Shipping is big business. And like many industries — especially ones we may not have believed could find themselves in such high levels of turmoil before the coronavirus outbreak — the spread of COVID-19 affects global ports in ways that could present very concerning circumstances. “Things are so dynamic in a maritime