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Lab-Grown Breastmilk Startup BIOMILQ Raises $3.5 Million In Seed Funding

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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Steady, Atlanta-Based App For Gig Economy Workers Backed by Shaq, Raises $15 Million in Series B

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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Atlanta-Based Music App Deepr Highlights Importance of Black-Owned Music Tech During Black Music Month

“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

BetterCloud Raises $75 Million As More Companies Seek Beefed-Up SaaSOps Services For Remote Operations

BetterCloud Raises $75 Million As More Companies Seek Beefed-Up SaaSOps Services For Remote Operations

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

Dr. Lucienne Ide Rimidi

How Atlanta-Based Rimidi Is Helping Boston Medical Center Manage High-Risk Pregnancies During COVID-19

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

Sevetri Wilson

Nonprofit Formation Platform Resilia Raises $8 Million in Series A, Continuing Founder Sevetri Wilson's History-Making Winning Streak

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

Raining Money Umbrella Man

Monday Fund-Day: Who Raised What in the Startup South — May 3-9

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