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MessageGears Moves Billions Monthly with Enterprise Email Marketing

MessageGears Moves Billions Monthly with Enterprise Email Marketing

MessageGears is making email marketing a well-oiled machine for big companies. The Atlanta tech startup is a cog-turning engine that sends more than one billion messages every month for enterprise clients like Expedia, Musictoday and Runkeeper. Recently, scoring a $2.35 million Series A funding round, MessageGears is now ramping

Funding University Disrupts the Student Loan Industry

Funding University Disrupts the Student Loan Industry

Funding University is looking to fill the gap between passionate people and the funds they need to earn the education they want. Founded in 2015, FundingU offers undergraduate students, without co-signers, merit-based loans with interest rates of 5 to 9 percent with their 4-3-2-1-done auto rate-adjusting loan product. "We

Mavenly Motivates Work and Worth

Mavenly Motivates Work and Worth

For most, post-graduate life can be confusing and full of paths with unknown success. Co-founders Kate Gremillion and Tallia Deljou know firsthand. They found themselves trying out different environments, from grad school and corporate life to freelance and startups, and, yet, nothing quite fit. Worse, there weren't enough

Carvana Cofounder on the Road from ATL to Almost a Half Billion Raised

Carvana Cofounder on the Road from ATL to Almost a Half Billion Raised

Three years ago, Ryan Keeton, with cofounders Ernie Garcia and Ben Huston, introduced Carvana to the world as a small car dealership on Marietta Street in Atlanta. What they promised was a new way to buy a car, one that combined the ease of purchasing online with the human factors

Mom Augments Reality to Spark Activity in Autistic Children

Mom Augments Reality to Spark Activity in Autistic Children

Remember those pop-up storybooks from when you were little? Nostalgia hit you hard just now, didn't it? Well, PlayPointe is taking those pop-up storybooks and bringing them into the 21st Century with the help of augmented reality. Technology entrepreneur Sarah Jackson, inspired by her three autistic children, saw

Mogean Maps Humanity from Mobile Inactivity

Mogean Maps Humanity from Mobile Inactivity

Every click, search, and interaction tells our story to brands. They track and learn who we are and what we like, their dancing discounts making their way into our screen-time within minutes of hitting “return.” Considering that the average American allocates five waking hours to their mobile devices, that’s

La Belle Bump Delivers Pretty During Maternity

La Belle Bump Delivers Pretty During Maternity

Many of us sit at our office desk, dreaming of a big idea we would love to turn into reality. Unlike most of us, Anita Rajendra made it happen. Rajendra left Coca Cola to create La Belle Bump, a fashion subscription service for expecting mothers that delivers sizes at pace