Southeast Tech News From The Week Of October 6-12, 2025
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Another week, another Friday "Fund" Day round up. Let's get through the investment rounds, acquisition news, and other important highlights you need to know today.
Funding News
- Drone startup Hoverfly (Sanford, Florida): $20 million Series B
- Attuned Intelligence (Orlando, Florida): $13 million Seed Round
- Falcomm (Atlanta, Georgia): $5.8 million in Oversubscribed Seed II Round
- Archive Intel (Atlanta, Georgia): $6.3 million Series A
- Civilized AI (New Orleans, Louisiana): $2 million Seed Round
- Fufild (Nashville, Tennessee): $685k Seed Round
Acquisition News
- New Hampshire-based DEKA Research & Development acquired core assets and intellectual property from Memphis-based company Diatech Diabetes, a LaunchTN-supported company.
Alloy, the marketing and transformation partner for the age of intelligence, announced its acquisition of Atlanta-based digital marketing agency Hot Sauce (founded in 2010). More details here.
Accelerator News
WEI (Women's Entrepreneurship Initiative) in Atlanta is back with its seventh cohort of female founders. Meet the 15 selected founders here.
A new FinTech accelerator launched in Atlanta, called the Pinnacle Atlanta Innovation Accelerator, launched its inaugural cohort, selecting 5 Atlanta-based startups to join. Read more about the selected companies here.
The It Takes a Village pre-accelerator is having its Demo Day on Monday, October 13 at Atlanta Tech Village - Buckhead. The teams pitching will be:
- GreenDot Health: Nadia Nabavi
- Schoolconomy: Regnault Sanders
- MamaCare 360: Savitha Nagaraj
- Globekin: Jeremy Vincent
- Lexore Spark: Sequoia Blodgett
- Heir Tight: Natalie Michon
- Ziora: Christopher Martinez
- Badger: Naquan Smith
Top Hypepotamus Stories
Get to know the CEO of CallRail, Marc Ginsberg, as he leads the Atlanta-based company through the Age of AI.
In Other News
In honor of First Responders Day on October 28, Atlanta-based sleep performance company The Inactive Company, announced a partnership with the First Responders Foundation to promote the sleep health of first responders nationwide. Throughout October, The Inactive Company will donate 15% of its sales that month to the Foundation. Additionally, all customers will receive 25% off the company’s Inactivators™ Performance Sleep Mask throughout October by using promo code RESPOND25 at checkout.
People To Know
1. Raleigh unicorn company insightsoftware named a new CEO. Chris Jurasek will step up as the most recent CEO, following in the footsteps of Michael Sullivan.
2. Technology Association of Georgia’s TAG Education Collaborative announces the six finalists selected to compete in the Pitch for Capital competition at TAG Invest Connect: Meet, Pitch, & Partner on October 23, 2025. The six finalists are:
- Alex Edquist, Founder & CEO – Good Agriculture
- Shante Frazier, Founder – WellCapped
- Ron Johnson, Founder & CEO – Tacilent.ai
- Noelle London, Founder & CEO – illoominus
- Moran Mizrahi, Co-founder & COO – Rebillia Platform
- Ted Tagalakis, Founder & CEO – SparkyAI!™
3. UGA names inaugural Faculty Innovation Fellows on campus. Read more on UGA Today News.
