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Hybrid Fund out of Research Triangle Looks To Introduce More People To VC

Hybrid Fund out of Research Triangle Looks To Introduce More People To VC

Three Duke classmates have joined forces to bring more capital into the Southeast startup scene. Greggory Bordes, Joe Mancini, and Nikin Shah, all graduates of The Fuqua School of Business, started North Carolina-based Front Porch Venture Partners after working across the country at various investing organizations, startups, and larger corporations.

Fund Focused On Giving Students Real-World Investing Experience Closes $50M, Recruits 11 From Local Colleges

Fund Focused On Giving Students Real-World Investing Experience Closes $50M, Recruits 11 From Local Colleges

Led by a team of 11 students from campuses across the city, the University Growth Fund is looking to change the face of investing in Atlanta. The fund, which started on the West Coast and has offices in San Diego and Salt Lake City, chose to expand to Atlanta in

How One Tampa-based Blockchain Startup Is Helping Those Building For Web3

How One Tampa-based Blockchain Startup Is Helping Those Building For Web3

As Ethereum and other blockchain protocols started taking off several years back, Michael O’Rourke recognized a fundamental flaw associated with those building in the relatively new space. While more people were building on top of the blockchain, they relied on a single service provider. “We got the sense that

Behind The Atlanta Tech Bringing Local Stars To AR Stages

Behind The Atlanta Tech Bringing Local Stars To AR Stages

Fans at a recent Atlanta Hawks’ game were wowed by more than just Trae Young’s moves, thanks to Atlanta’s growing base of AR technologists. Many of those technologists are housed in YAH (You Are Here) Agency and Georgia State’s Creative Media Industries Insitute (CMII). Those two groups

Meet The Founder Playing Matchmaker To Vendors And Venues

Meet The Founder Playing Matchmaker To Vendors And Venues

After leaving a career in the military, Air Force veteran April Caldwell’s dove into the small business world with the launch of her own gourmet popcorn company. Part of the recipe for making such a business work, of course, is getting in front of the right customers. “Being a

What's The Next Play For Atlanta's PlayOn! Sports?

What's The Next Play For Atlanta's PlayOn! Sports?

Navigating a startup through the volatile and unpredictable media landscape is no small feat. But that’s exactly what David Rudolph has done at the helm of ATDC-graduate PlayOn! Sports, a sports media company for the high school market. The rise of streaming and subscription-based programming over the last few

Create-X startup lands seed funding to keep workers safe with wearable technology

Create-X startup lands seed funding to keep workers safe with wearable technology

It started with a conversation between friends about reducing injuries and deaths in the firefighting community. But after scaling the concept through the Create-X Idea-2-Prototype class at Georgia Tech and launching their first product, the team behind SlateSafety (formerly FireHUD) realized their wearable technology had even more industrial use cases.