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Tamara Lucas started My Panda because she knows everyone can use some help with their to-do list. The Atlanta-based personal assistant app found an eager customer base: Busy parents who wanted to enlist the help of assistants (known as Pandas) to keep up with the daily tasks like folding laundry,
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Atlanta-based Fulcrum Equity Partners set out to raise $300 to $350 million for its Fund V. But it turns out that a lot of new and returning investors wanted into the limited partner (LP) pool…and today Fulcrum announced it has closed the round at an impressive $372 million. Raising
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The fertility world is cold. Really, really, cold. Eggs, embryos, and sperm cells need to be stored in places that reach negative 320 degrees Fahrenheit. In order to maintain that temperature, fertility clinics store these samples in liquid nitrogen tanks. Will Baird worked with these tanks every day as the
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Editor’s note: This article was first published in Global Atlanta, an online news publication devoted to revealing the city’s ties with the world and helping local companies navigate the global economy.— Innova Solutions has long been a fixture in Atlanta’s technology community, but the fast-growing IT firm
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Up on the eighth floor of Midtown’s 999 Peachtree Building, overlooking the iconic Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, you’ll find what Charles Potts refers to as “the front door to community banks.” That ‘front door’ opens up to the new Center for Innovation for ICBA (the Independent Community
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Editor’s note: This article was first published in Global Atlanta, an online news publication devoted to revealing the city’s ties with the world and helping local companies navigate the global economy.— Atlanta-based DataSeers is set to open a new office in Mumbai, adding 80 new employees this year
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Lauren Glass faced a problem many fresh college graduates experience after getting their diploma. Quite simply, it is really hard to stand out with a generic one–page resume and land that important first job. “I looked like every other person with a bachelors in business and no real work
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If the last text you received came from your favorite brand, you aren’t alone. SMS or text messaging has become a ubiquitous part of the marketing world. Today, businesses use SMS for important marketing initiatives, 1:1 outreach, and customer service messaging. It's effective, with 97 percent
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One of Atlanta’s most recognizable SaaS startups has a new name. LeaseQuery, the lease accounting platform, announced earlier this month that it has rebranded to FinQuery. The startup got off the ground in 2011 when accountant-turned-entrepreneur George Azih saw a fundamental flaw in how most companies organized their lease
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Long before Sasan Goodarzi was the CEO of Intuit, the California-based executive spent a good portion of his early professional career in the tech sector traveling around the State of Georgia. Atlanta, in particular, left a positive impression on him over the years. Then Intuit eyed Mailchimp, Atlanta’s bootstrapped
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The State of Georgia has a new semiconductor company moving in. The venture-backed startup Micromize, a spin-off of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology building energy-efficient electronics for wearables and mobile devices, announced this week that it is shifting its operations to Columbus, Georgia. That is a big deal, given that
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The bottom level of an office building on Peachtree Road houses a startup reshaping our views on hearing. Inside a nondescript industrial building off 14th Street is a team making surgeries safer. And up in Peachtree Corners, there is an office filled with a team rethinking anemia testing. Zoom in