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Text Request

Text Request Lets Businesses Conduct All Their Communication Through Text Message

Think about it — you may not always have your laptop, and you may not want to get email to your mobile phone, but when was the last time you didn’t read a text? Marketers are wising up to this fact, and, while email still remains the mainstay of mass

Docity

Docity Lets You Add An Affordable Telehealth Service to Your Wi-Fi Bill

"We can order a pizza with an emoji, but the average American still has to wait 24 days for an appointment and lose over two hours of their life to visit the doctor." James Cowan is a Marine Corps veteran and father of four. While working for an

FreightWaves

Trucking Tech Startup FreightWaves Closes $13M Series A From Logistics Tech VCs, Rise of the Rest, New York Jet

FreightWaves, a fast-growing startup drawing attention for its data analytics and content platform, focused on the freight market, has closed an oversubscribed Series A round of $13 million. The round was led by logistics-focused 8VC with participating investors including Fontinalis Partners, Story Ventures, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Revolution’s Rise

Dynamo

How the Country's Only Logistics Tech VC Firm Is Attracting Startups From All Over to Chattanooga

“If you think about the economy, supply chain is at the center of the economy, and transportation is essentially the supply chain. And we’re at the center of all of that.” Santosh Sankar, co-founder and director of logistics and supply-chain focused venture capital fund Dynamo, is bullish on their

FreightWaves

Why This Rise of the Rest Winner Is Using the $100K Investment to Fund Employee Education

FreightWaves, the startup building a publication, data analytics service and financial futures market for the freight industry, took home the $100K investment prize at the Rise of the Rest pitch competition in Chattanooga last week. However, while most startups would funnel that money into product development or business growth, founder

The 10 Cheapest Cities to Build a Startup Are In the South — Here's What You Know and What Might Surprise You

The 10 Cheapest Cities to Build a Startup Are In the South — Here's What You Know and What Might Surprise You

“Major coastal cities are becoming too expensive for individuals to afford, much less startups, which makes smaller cities much more desirable. Office space is cheaper and colleges in the area can help drive innovation through its local talent.” One might expect those words to be spoken by a tech leader

Motivo

This Video Platform Wants to Teach Mental Health Professionals to Expand Therapy In Underserved Areas

Rachel McCrickard was a mental health professional for years, working in the early years of her career catering to homeless individuals in Los Angeles. She returned to her hometown of Chattanooga in 2011 to work at a community mental health agency, but she needed to complete the clinical supervision hours