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Could e-commerce marketing benefit from a little bit of southern hospitality? The team behind Los Angeles-based Emotive thinks so. After raising a $50 million Series B round, Emotive is expanding and opening an office in Atlanta. Emotive’s platform helps e-commerce brands scale 1:1 text messaging campaigns with customers
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For CEO Tim Kopp, Terminus’ $90 million Series C isn’t just a big headline. “It’s a great validator. But it also puts the pressure on us to keep going.” The Series C round was led by Great Hill Partners, a new investor in Atlanta's account-based marketing
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Birmingham-based Michael Panik told Hypepotamus that he’s been at the intersection of marketing and web development for most of his career. But his passion has been helping small businesses. “I believe in small business as a whole. I’m a product of small business,” he said. “The problem is
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SmartPM, the Atlanta-based full-service project analytics system focused on the construction industry, raised $785,000 through a group of angel investors. Founder and CEO Michael Pink told Hypepotamus that “part of our funding will push us into AI and machine learning so that we can use datasets in a much
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The pandemic has driven many tech trends, including a shift further towards a mobile-first world. More people are turning to apps than ever before for essential services like banking, food delivery, connecting with distant family, or just finding entertainment during these times of social distancing. As Frank Moyer, CTO of
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Techstars Atlanta is celebrating another successful acquisition. CommissionTrac, a cloud-based revenue management platform that streamlines back office admin work for commercial real estate agents, has been acquired by Yardi Systems. Based in Santa Barbara, California, Yardi provides end-to-end property and investment management software to those in the commercial real estate
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Startup founders and corporate leaders alike must master the art of the pivot in order to get new products on shelves. But such a pivot can mean costly market and product research studies. Father-and-son team Dillon Hall and Tim Hall experienced this problem first hand, so they built a predictive
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Accurately understanding the value of a prospective or existing customer is important for any growing business. Atlanta-based DecisionLink’s platform organizes the customer value management process, and one of the larger VC firms out in Silicon Valley has taken notice. Following up on a 2019 SAFE round, Accel has signed
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Just as sprockets link together different parts of a machine, the co-founders of Charleston-based Sentio believe the right new employees drive organizational efficiency and harmony. So much so, they’ve decided to use the word in the company's rebrand. “‘Sprockets’ represents our mission more clearly,” Matt Kuraska told
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Yes, the 2020 Presidential race and 2021 senate runoff elections are in the rearview mirror. While many may be rejoicing that TV ads and text message campaigns have ended, one Southeast-based startup is already looking ahead to ensure that future elections run smoothly. EasyVote, founded by brothers Charles and Ron
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“We're in the midst of a second industrial revolution — the automation revolution,” said Automation Intelligence co-founder Richard Schrade III. “Our economy demands products to be delivered faster, more customized, and produced cheaper. This requires an industry beyond humans. So we provide clarity and analytical support to companies who
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During a standard grocery run, consumers probably aren’t thinking about the process by which a grocer gets raw produce, fresh bread, or canned beverages onto shelves. But for the team behind Gimme, an Atlanta-based startup working to improve the invoicing system for the Direct to Store Delivery (DSD) industry,