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Charlotte Fintech Finzly Lands $10 Million Series A After Bootstrapping Years Of Strong B2B Growth

Charlotte Fintech Finzly Lands $10 Million Series A After Bootstrapping Years Of Strong B2B Growth

After bootstrapping for the better part of the last eleven years, Charlotte-based Finzly is ending 2023 with a big fundraising announcement. The fintech startup closed a $10 million Series A round from New York-based TZP Growth Equity last month, a move that founder Booshan Rengachari would help bolster the company’

Meet The Startup Winners From Invest Connect, A Pitch Competition For Diverse Founders

Meet The Startup Winners From Invest Connect, A Pitch Competition For Diverse Founders

It’s one thing for investors and organizations to say that they want to back diverse founders. It is quite another for them to actually make good on that promise and write checks. We know those checks are often not written, since just one percent of VC funds go to

Following Pivot, Atlanta-based startup Managr looks to transform the world of PR

Following Pivot, Atlanta-based startup Managr looks to transform the world of PR

A pivot into the world of Public Relations (PR) has proved fruitful for early-stage startup Managr. The Atlanta-based startup, which launched as a SalesTech tool in 2021, announced its PR assistant just two months ago for companies and agencies looking to get an AI-boost to their PR efforts. The platform

Get To Know The CEO: Joey Womack Reflects On A Decade Of Social Entrepreneurship

Get To Know The CEO: Joey Womack Reflects On A Decade Of Social Entrepreneurship

Diving into startups wasn’t Joey Womack’s initial career plan. He intended to follow in his father’s footsteps and become an accountant, and he was eyeing one of the Big Four firms after graduating from Florida A&M. But he caught the ‘startup bug’ while thinking about

Following pivot, Atlanta startup looks to get to the "Root" of our screen time addiction

Following pivot, Atlanta startup looks to get to the "Root" of our screen time addiction

If you find yourself aimlessly scrolling TikTok or picking up your phone every time you hear a notification ping, you might want to take this new app for a spin. Roots, launched by Atlanta-based entrepreneur Clint Jarvis, looks to help users set more intentional boundaries when it comes to phone

Bad questions can kill your business. This AI startup will help you ask better ones.

Bad questions can kill your business. This AI startup will help you ask better ones.

It’s a phenomenon that those in the startup world are well aware of. A founder has a great idea and a cool website, but they end up shutting down soon after launch because they couldn’t find paying customers. Perhaps the idea was too early or hit the market

Survey Says: It's Time To Rethink Your Customer Research Plan

Survey Says: It's Time To Rethink Your Customer Research Plan

Jon Hutson and his team kept running into a big problem when they were conducting research for their clients. While everyone agreed research is important, they didn’t always agree on the price tag or timeline. “It’s often the first thing to get cut from a project budget because