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Optimize Your Open Laptop Time With This City-to-City Rideshare

Optimize Your Open Laptop Time With This City-to-City Rideshare

While Keenya Justice was in law school in the late '90s, she began setting up job interviews with government agencies in Washington D.C. She had to decide between taking the train from North Carolina to D.C. in the wee hours of the morning or spending several hours

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$12M Kleiner Perkins-Led Series A Propels STORD's Enterprise Push

Details have emerged about supply chain software startup STORD's latest funding round, a $12.3 million Series A. The round was led by Silicon Valley venture firm Kleiner Perkins and included existing investors Susa Ventures and Dynamo, along with Ionic Security founder Adam Ghetti, Service Provider Capital, and

New Venture Fund, Accelerator Silicon Road Searches For Retail Tech Gold In Atlanta

Could Atlanta be the final stop on the silk road of success for retail tech startups? As a region strong in fintech, payments, and marketing technology, many of the pieces already exist to drive the next level of brick-and-mortar retail (which, despite apocalyptic projections, is far from dead). Sid Mookerji,

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Surveillance Startup Flock Is Growing Fast After Doubling Initial $10M Round

Some companies make a lot of noise around fundraising. Others choose to stay quiet, believing their product will drive necessary customer and investor interest. Flock Safety is the former. Almost exactly three months after the surveillance camera startup raised about $10 million in their first significant funding round, they doubled

Adding Mark Bezos As A Backer, HR Startup Spur Raises One of Alabama's Largest Venture Rounds Ever

Adding Mark Bezos As A Backer, HR Startup Spur Raises One of Alabama's Largest Venture Rounds Ever

Employment platform Spur has raised an $8 million Series A round led by venture capital firm Third Prime with participation from Mark Bezos (brother of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos) and John Griffin, founder of Blue Ridge Capital. Founded in 2017, the Huntsville, AL software company offers a payroll and HR

This Startup Takes Aim At Opioid Overdose With Blockchain "Google for Controlled Substances”

This Startup Takes Aim At Opioid Overdose With Blockchain "Google for Controlled Substances”

In 2017, prescription opioid drugs contributed to more than one third of the country’s opioid overdose deaths, killing 116 people every day and creating an economic burden of $115 billion in that one year. Though there are opioid prescription tracking databases for doctors and pharmacists, they often live in

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The Engage Venture Platform: Tracking Success Two Years, Four Cohorts, and A Few Stealth Launches In

Months before his business intelligence AI product launched, Pryon founder Igor Jablokov was meeting with top-level decision-makers at some of the largest enterprises in the world. He solicited feedback for how his platform could help businesses across industries — logistics, finance, transportation, retail and more. Those conversations were made possible through