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Southeast Tech News From The Week Of October 20-24, 2025
We've curated the most important pieces of news from this week from across the Southeast.
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Need to find...and win...more grants? This new Atlanta AI startup is helping nonprofits do just that.
Here’s how the growing startup is streamlining the grant search process and empowering mission-driven organizations across the country.
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The Insurance Industry Is Broken. Georgia CEO Todd Baxter Thinks Heathos Can Fix It.
Georgia-based Heathos, led by Todd Baxter, is building a connected InsurTech ecosystem to solve the insurance industry’s fragmentation problem.
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Vantaca, North Carolina’s Newest Software Unicorn, Secures $300M to Transform How Community Management Gets Done
Vantaca, a Wilmington software company, lands $300M at a $1.25B valuation to transform how communities are managed across the U.S.
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This Atlanta Founder Says AI Can Make Digital Content Better...And More Likely To Convert
At its core, SparkyAI! helps companies and brands figure out exactly who would buy their product and what messages would most resonate with those buyers while streamlining the content creation process.
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Canada Expansion on Fintech Software Firm’s Roadmap After $29M Raise
“This means expanding to Canada won’t just unlock a new market for Rainforest, it also allows our existing platform clients to expand their current offering into a new market.”
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Atlanta Startup My Panda Redefines Employee Gifts with ‘Time Back’ This Holiday Season
What employees really want this holiday season is their time back, says My Panda CEO and founder Tamara Lucas.
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Get To Know The CEO Behind Atlanta’s Oversight, Which Helps Global Enterprises Detect Risk And Manage Spend Smarter
Atlanta-based Oversight CEO Terrence McCrossan shares how AI-powered spend risk management is helping global enterprises control cost and reduce fraud.
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Why AgTech startup Cultra, looking to improve our soil, chose to build in Chattanooga
Cultra, a Chattanooga AgTech startup, is tackling farming’s data problem with an AI-driven platform that helps farmers analyze soil, improve crops, and restore soil health.
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Southeast Tech News From The Week Of October 13-17, 2025
Dive into the headlines you need to know from the week that was
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This Atlanta-Area Startup Builds Space Armor to Protect Astronauts & Satellites
Georgia’s Atomic-6 is redefining satellite protection with Space Armor™ — a lightweight, RF-permeable shield built to defend spacecraft and astronauts from orbital debris and energy attacks.
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What's The State of Southeast Startups? This New Report Dives Into The Numbers
As more VC dollars gets deployed into later rounds, Flickinger said that it creates a large open space for the next generation of investors looking to back the less competitive early-stage market.