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First Look At the $100M Georgia Cyber Center: The Largest Investment in Cybersecurity By a State

First Look At the $100M Georgia Cyber Center: The Largest Investment in Cybersecurity By a State

In early 2017, Georgia state government made clear its commitment to growing and nurturing the state's cybersecurity talent with the allocation of an initial $58 million, and then another $35 million, into the Hull McKnight Georgia Cyber Center for Innovation and Training. The campus of the Augusta-based center

Rimidi

Chronic Disease Management Platform Rimidi Rebrands On the Heels of $6.5M Funding Round

Digital health startup Rimidi, formerly known as Rimidi Diabetes, has made its expanded mission official on the heels of a $6.575 million funding round. The capital came from new investors, pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Company and Turner Investments, as well as existing investors Cox Enterprises, Village Capital, The

Ataia Medical

Ataia Medical Secures Seed Funding to Help Patients Wearing Respiratory Masks Communicate

Atlanta-based Ataia Medical, a medical device startup that produces a tool that allows patients wearing hospital respiratory masks to communicate, has raised a seed funding round of $300,000. Investors include medical-specific firm Green Park & Golf Ventures and angel investors that specialize in medical devices. Ataia Medical’s patent-pending

Why This Quickly-Scaling Startup Hires Salespeople With No Sales Experience

Why This Quickly-Scaling Startup Hires Salespeople With No Sales Experience

Client acquisition platform JumpCrew just finished up a hiring challenge — 50 employees in 50 days. Many of these are new sales people — most with absolutely no sales background. David Pachter, the martech startup's co-founder and executive chairman, says this was a deliberate decision. His philosophy is that in

Eboni Freeman

It Took 3 Weeks and 30 Emails to Get Workplace Disability Accommodations, So She's Building a Tool to Help Others

When discussing the topic of parity in the workplace, one group is often left out of the conversation: individuals with disabilities. The average unemployment rate of this population hovers around twice that of the national rate. These statistics may be partially due to inefficiency in today’s workplace environments. Eboni

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San Francisco Communications Platform Twilio Is Recruiting For New Atlanta Office

San Francisco-based cloud communications tech company Twilio has opened a new office — its first in the U.S. outside of the major tech hubs of California and New York — in Atlanta. Based for now at WeWork Terminus in Buckhead, their space currently houses a dozen employees, but they plan to

on-camera interview

5 Ways to Not Freak Out During Your First On-Camera Interview

TV and video can be a great way to connect your brand, company and message to a lot of people fast. But wait — what do you do with your hands? Where should your eyes focus? What if you’re so weird on camera that you end up turning everyone off?