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Following $450 Million Raise and Acquisition, Birmingham-based Fleetio Is A $1.5 Billion Company
Fleetio hits $1.5B valuation with $450M Series D and Auto Integrate acquisition, marking a major milestone for Birmingham’s growing tech scene.
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Instant Financial Expands Beyond Early Pay with New Financial Wellness Program
Instant Financial is expanding beyond early wage access with its new Financial Wellness program, offering credit-building tools, free rent reporting, high-yield savings, and more to help frontline workers achieve long-term financial stability.
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From Music City, AI-Powered Content Verification Startup ViNIL Wants To Keep Deepfakes and Digital Deception in Check
ViNIL uses AI-powered fingerprinting technology to verify video, audio, and images—protecting creators, celebrities, and brands from deepfakes and unauthorized content online.
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Atlanta Fintech Ditch Evolves With Debt Repayment Perks for Employees
Last year the Ditch team started focusing on building out its round up tool, which enables users to make small payments towards their liabilities like credit card balances, student loans, and car payments every time they swipe their card. The goal is to help people make paying down debt easier.
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Atlanta-based supply chain startup PorterLogic, built by Georgia Tech grads, gets acquired
PorterLogic was built under the leadership of Jonathan Porter, Founder and CPO/CTO, and Anya Skomorokhova, co-founder and CEO. Porter and Skomorokhova, two Georgia Tech graduates, worked with Lucasys' CTO at a previous startup, and then worked with the Lucasys’ team during 2020 and 2022 while Porter
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Following a $82 Million Series B, San Francisco's Ditto Looks To Expand In Atlanta
“Atlanta is a big part of Ditto’s story. We have major customers like Chick-fil-A and Delta here, so we wanted to make investments in hiring local talent. As we started scouting locations for an office, Atlanta won over DC, Raleigh, and Austin when evaluating all our company’s needs,” said
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Flock Safety — with fresh $275 million funding round — targets product innovation in the investigative intelligence space
Last year, Flock acquired Aerodome, an American-made drone company designed for first responders. Earlier this year, Flock unveiled a new data intelligence platform, Nova, to help investigators and command staff synthesize data from multiple sources in order to solve active crimes.
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With $12M Series A, Atlanta-based Carpool Logistics Eyes New Automotive Verticals
Following the funding round, Malakhov said that the team will be focused on expanding to help other automotive verticals ship vehicles. Beyond auctions, he wants to grow customers in the dealerships and OEM (original equipment manufacturing) segments.
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Atlanta-based OrthoScribe is the first to market with an AI medical notetaker for Apple Watch. Here's why it matters for the medical community.
In its early stages, OrthoScribe is focused on serving healthcare professionals in the orthopedic and pain management spaces. The reason for the speciality focus right now is to make sure that its AI solutions are finely tuned and detailed enough, something that would not be possible if their techno
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Armed with new $27 million fund, Atlanta's Valor Ventures looks to back more local SaaS and AI seed startups
New VC funds have been difficult to close across the country, given high interest rates, tightening liquidity, limited LP risk appetite, and longer exit timelines. Closing the new fund was an “immense challenge and a powerful validation of our strategy,” Valor’s Founding Managing Partner Lisa Calhou
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To keep fleets moving with better data on tires, Chattanooga's Ruedata raises seed round from Atlanta's Valor Ventures
Its technology is designed to help fleet companies that need to manage and optimize the life cycle of tires. Through its AI-powered platform, RueData offers real-time visibility, inventory control and data to help with accident prevention.
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Atlanta investors back Visalaw.ai, a Memphis LegalTech startup built by prominent immigration lawyers
Valor connected with Visalaw.ai in September of last year as they were looking for LegalTech startups with a generative AI focus.