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How do you get to almost $140 million in funding in one week? Well, apparently it helps if you're a payment automation platform in Charlotte, an outdoor care software startup, and a nutrition product provider, all at once. Welcome back to Monday Fund-Day, your start-of-the-week primer on who
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A picture is worth a thousand words, the saying goes. And during his 20-plus year career as a CNN producer, Felipe Barral noticed that gorgeous still photography gleaned from B-roll footage he recorded while on assignment had an awful lot to say. But instead of framing his stills, Barral decided
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With COVID-19 effectively upending the residential college experience, many students have revealed the upheaval they face as campuses remain closed. This, among other things,, reveals the urgency of her work, says BestFit CEO and co-founder Asha Owens. “Millions of college students are already struggling to find stable access to food,
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As if we needed anything else to make life more complicated during the COVID-19 pandemic, there's breaking news that evil hackers are still as terrible as ever. Because of this, Atlanta-based cybersecurity video training platform Curricula is now offering a free coronavirus phishing test to companies so that
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The news had been very positive for HUNGRY going into the spring season. The catering platform, which connects office workers and other groups to talented chefs in their cities, just closed a Series B of just under $20 million at the beginning of March. Among the investors were famous names,
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Tech startups are continuing to find investment capital, even with the stock market being a little zanier than usual. Read below to find out which North Carolina startup got a little extra funding and which Atlanta company just closed a massive Series B round. In case you noticed, we'
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Buying a car has changed quite a bit over the years. In the past, automobile manufacturers would sell their inventory to dealers, who would then sell those cars to consumers — with significant and unseen markups. However, market changes, transparency, and an increasingly savvy customer base have combined to erase some
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Any fan of chess will tell you the game has a variety of real-world applications. But one particular fan, chess master A.J. Steigman, would say there are other ways to use it that one might not expect. “Chess is a fantastic game,” Steigman says, “which can give you a
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When a real estate transaction software tool raises $8.5 million dollars, as Nashville-based Blueprint Title did, more than just the buyers and sellers of property take notice. But what exactly does this proprietary digital closing solution do? CTO Michael Anderson, as you’d expect a CTO to do, simplifies
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Automation plus enterprise artificial intelligence can equal the perfect match, and when enterprise AI company Exponential Machines announced its merger with automation company PurpleLogic at this year’s AI Summit to become an entirely new company called Exponential AI, it decided to make a new life in Atlanta. “The joining
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AppHarvest, an agtech startup based in Kentucky, was one of 2019’s biggest tech stories from the Southeast. It appears that 2020 is off to a similarly fertile start in terms of funding, after the company's recent announcement of an $11 million financing round led by a couple