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Johnson City, Tennessee might not top many national startup hub lists today, but it’s certainly gaining attention in one key area: a record number of people are moving in. With a growing influx of people moving from states like California and New York, the city emerging as one of
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On January 1, 2021, Congress enacted the National Defense Authorization Act of 2021. From strictly reading the title of the act, one might not realize the significance of its impact on the corporate world as we all know it. However, comprising a small portion of the act and as part
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Over the past few weeks, a sense of anticipation has been building across Atlanta’s tech scene. At networking events and startup hubs, the same question kept surfacing: "Did you hear who’s coming back?" The answer, spoken with enthusiasm each time, was that Jennifer Bonnett had moved
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iAccess Life, an Atlanta-based accessibility startup, is ready to help more people find their voice. Its new B2B product, aptly called Voice, is a patron feedback tool that helps visitors rate, review, and research locations based on the accessibility levels at different locations they visit. Through curated QR codes, visitors
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Text Request, a Chattanooga-based business texting platform, has bootstrapped its way to a successful exit. After ten years of building up its business, the Tennessee startup has been acquired by U.K-based global messaging solutions leader Commify. This is Commify’s 18th acquisition since 2013 and its second in 2024.
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Editor’s note: This article was first published in Global Atlanta, an online news publication devoted to revealing the city’s ties with the world and helping local companies navigate the global economy. French warehouse automation innovator Exotec is doubling down on Atlanta, opening a new North American headquarters after
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A global Robotics company headquartered in Newcastle Upon Tyne. A hardware manufacturing shop out of Liverpool. A software startup based in Manchester. That might not sound like the traditional list of startups you’d meet while attending Atlanta’s largest venture capital conference. But last week those companies, and other
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Funding news in the LegalTech space. New marketplace and CPG startups launching in the region. After a busy week when many people in the ecosystem gathered at the Venture Atlanta conference, we're recapping the stories and headlines that caught our attention this week. Here is what you need
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Faiz Imran has built media startups and community social platforms, reaching four successful exits in less than eight years. Now after his most recent exit with the founder wellness platform startup called Peerbase, he’s ready to take on the wellness space…one patch at a time. Imran just launched
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Investors have taken note of Document Crunch, the Atlanta-based AI platform focused on contract review for the construction industry. The team, led by co-founder and CEO Josh Levy, just announced a $21.5 million Series B funding round. That news comes the day after Levy’s pitch helped Document Crunch
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Enterprises have a data problem. In the simplest terms, they have an ever-growing amount of it in a seemingly ever-growing number of places. That is particularly true when it comes to a company's important security data. That is something that Atlanta-based entrepreneur Matt Eberhart saw first hand throughout
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Building any type of business is hard. But keeping a restaurant afloat can be particularly grueling. 20 percent of restaurants close within a year and 60 percent shutter within five years, according to the U Bureau of Labor Statistics. On top of that, the average full-service restaurant carried $51,863