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This Startup Uses the Power of Digital Community to Send "AMBER Alerts" For Missing Pets

This Startup Uses the Power of Digital Community to Send "AMBER Alerts" For Missing Pets

One in three pets go missing at some point in their lifetime, according to the American Humane Association. While preventative measures like collars and microchips can help reunite owners and pets faster, things can happen... and that can be devastating for pet owners. In 2014, Clayton Gladieux realized there wasn&

Fieldwork Software SingleOps Raises $1.6M Series A From Atlanta Ventures' David Cummings

Fieldwork Software SingleOps Raises $1.6M Series A From Atlanta Ventures' David Cummings

Business management software startup SingleOps has raised a Series A of $1.6 million led by entrepreneur-investor David Cummings of Atlanta Ventures. The team recently signed a lease for a new 4,500 square-foot office space to house its growing team. "Since we closed our seed round about two

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Minority-Focused Russell Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Opens to First Members

In the year since Jay Bailey has taken over at the Herman J. Russell Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a business-building incubator that aims to broaden opportunity for minority residents, the native Atlantan entrepreneur has been busy. RCIE occupies a 50,000 square foot campus in Castleberry Hill, a rapidly-growing

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Techstars LegalTech Firm Is the Latest Startup Heading to Birmingham For New Opportunity

It’s not often that you hear a founder describe the process of working with an investor as “really falling in love,” but that’s what Lauren Sturdivant describes when she talks about her seed round investor, the Alabama Futures Fund. Beyond leading the $725K seed round in Sturdivant’s

Power Talk: Fintech Innovators to Talk Debt At Money Moves Panel

Power Talk: Fintech Innovators to Talk Debt At Money Moves Panel

The millennial debt crisis is real: the average millennial (aged 18 to 34) had about $38,000 in personal debt (excluding home mortgages) last year. But with a little hard work and creativity, this crisis can be beat — and fintech startups are stepping in to help. Creative agency Surthrive is

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Warner Music Boost Fund's First Investment Is A Universal Instrument Startup

Universal instrument startup Artiphon has become the first public investment for Warner Music Group’s Boost fund, a seed-stage fund for innovative music startups. WMG’s investment was part of the Nashville-based startup’s first institutional round, a $2 million seed. Jacob Gordon, Artiphon's co-founder and Chief Marketing

Spare Change Donation App Softgiving Launches Rebates App To Donate With Each Purchase

Spare Change Donation App Softgiving Launches Rebates App To Donate With Each Purchase

A cold call led Softgiving CEO Matt Pfaltzgraf to a conversation with the head of national partnerships at World Vision, one of the largest relief and advocacy organizations in the world. World Vision was looking for a non-traditional solution to connect with a younger demographic. Pfaltzgraf sold them on the