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With coronavirus news currently roiling financial markets, some might guess that recently launched venture capital funds would hold off on whatever they were planning a few months ago. But that’s not what Michael Cohn and Sean O’Brien, founder-operators of Atlanta-based early stage venture capital firm Overline, have decided
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Tech startups are continuing to find investment capital, even with the stock market being a little zanier than usual. Read below to find out which North Carolina startup got a little extra funding and which Atlanta company just closed a massive Series B round. In case you noticed, we'
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Sharing events with our readers and connecting you to great events near you is one of the most important services Hypepotamus provides. Yet, there's no denying the significant disruption COVID-19 is causing to daily life in the South and beyond. As events continue to be cancelled or postponed
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The realities of life in the middle of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic are sure to become challenging for everyone, including startups, who definitely need help starting up. With its latest offering, Raleigh-based Pendo hopes to be of service. A product cloud that helps digital product teams and applications deliver software
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Not even the World Health Organization’s declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic could put a total halt on funding around the South this week. Among those startups who closed noteworthy rounds were three companies, each representing a different Southeastern state: Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Keep coming back
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Any fan of chess will tell you the game has a variety of real-world applications. But one particular fan, chess master A.J. Steigman, would say there are other ways to use it that one might not expect. “Chess is a fantastic game,” Steigman says, “which can give you a
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Chattanooga, known by its adopted nickname, “Gig City,” might not be the first place that comes to mind when you think of technology in the South. But with the fastest community-wide internet speed in the world and a whirlwind of activity in its startup ecosystem, it’s likely that more
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With a ribbon-cutting ceremony, words of support from executives and business leaders, and even a spot-on vanilla cake replica of the lab’s equipment setup, Emory Healthcare and Verizon announced the creation of the first 5G healthcare innovation lab in the U.S. in Atlanta. "You can probably tell
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When a real estate transaction software tool raises $8.5 million dollars, as Nashville-based Blueprint Title did, more than just the buyers and sellers of property take notice. But what exactly does this proprietary digital closing solution do? CTO Michael Anderson, as you’d expect a CTO to do, simplifies
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“When you’re really being challenged, what can you bring to bear?” That’s a question Dr. Nammy Vedire, director of platform and operations at Atlanta-based VC group Engage, says she asks herself regularly. Vedire says that the arts played just as important a formative role in her life as
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Today, the grass is indeed greener for Atlanta-based Greenzie, a software company that gives commercial lawn mowers self-driving capabilities. Less than a year after closing a $500,000 investment led by Atlanta Ventures, the company has announced that it has raised a new $750,000 investment funding round from a
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David Cummings, founder of Atlanta Tech Village and a collection of successful startups that include Terminus, SalesLoft, and Pardot, has been announced as the 2019 inductee into the Technology Hall of Fame of Georgia. The announcement came from PwC, which has sponsored the Technology Hall of Fame since it began