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Urjanet, which considers itself “the world’s largest utility data network,” and announced today that it has raised $14.65 million in a Series D Investment, with participation from Equifax, as well as venture funds including Oak HC/FT, Grotech Ventures, and Correlation Ventures. The Atlanta company, founded in 2010
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BIOMILQ, a “women-owned, science-led and mother-centered” startup, just raised $3.5 million in a Seed round led by Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Purple Orange Ventures, Blue Horizon Ventures and entrepreneur Shazi Visram, founder of Happy Family Organics. https://www.facebook.com/biomilq/posts/168425991331404 But what made these
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The COVID-19 pandemic has not gone away, and neither has it given the economy any clear signs that things are back to normal. But Atlanta-based app Steady doesn’t have a normal business model — even having Shaquille O’Neal as a financial backer is just one reason they’re unique.
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“Shazam on steroids” is how the founders of Atlanta-based music discovery app Deepr describe their innovative platform. And with June recognized as Black Music Month in the U.S., having an app that spotlights the creators behind the music — as opposed to the performers alone — is one way its founders
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BetterCloud CEO David Politis says it’s not just social distancing that’s keeping him from throwing a party to commemorate the SaaSOps company’s $75 million fundraising announcement. Even though he’s obviously excited about what the investment says about BetterCloud’s business model, he says this moment is
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Dr. Lucienne Ide, Atlanta native and founder of cloud-based chronic disease management platform Rimidi, already wasn’t proud of where Georgia ranked among other states in terms of mothers surviving childbirth. “Last I checked, you were more likely to die having a baby in Georgia than in Iraq,” Dr. Ide
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Expect Sevetri Wilson to be in the news a lot more in the near future — the African-American entrepreneur’s nonprofit formation and compliance platform Resilia just announced a completed Series A funding round of $8 million, making it one of the biggest investment hauls from a woman of color in
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It was another $140 million week in raised capital for the South, and this time Georgia is back in the game (there’s probably a football joke there, but having attended Morehouse I’ll leave it to the Georgia Tech grads). Welcome back to Monday Fund-Day, your start-of-the-week primer on
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Welcome back to Monday Fund-Day, your start-of-the-week primer on who raised significant capital in the South in the seven days leading to this past Sunday. Read below and discover where those three companies are located and what they do. And get in touch to let us know if your startup
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Terminus continues to take over the account-based world, and just sent a broadside at Boston-based conversational marketing platform Drift. Today, the ABM company announced its acquisition of Ramble, a popular account-based chat service covered previously by Hypepotamus, also based in Atlanta. Effective immediately, Ramble staff are now employees of Terminus,
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Following a year of record growth, Raleigh-based mobile marketing analytics startup Reveal Mobile has raised a new $2 million funding round and secured a U.S. patent for technology designed to assess the quality of mobile devices based on the reliability and accuracy of their location data. The Series A