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Ricardo Theiner is a veteran of international startups, having worked at companies in Austria, England, and the United States. He made his mark on the Atlanta startup scene as the co-founder of the TravelTech platform KLEENERLY, which was acquired in 2020, and as the City Launch Manager of the popular
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North Carolina-based Front Porch Venture Partners (FPVP) is the latest Southeast-based firm to raise its second fund, and the team is ready to deploy that capital in the regional startup ecosystem. FPVP announced today it closed a $20 million Fund II, which is quadruple the size of its fund that
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Atlanta-based Apptega has been in growth mode recently. The cybersecurity compliance team has made some high-profile leadership hires, including bringing on new CEO Dave Colesante late last year. It has also closed a new round of funding to help the team build and grow in the new era of AI-driven
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Blake Stoner was studying at Morehouse College when protests broke out in Ferguson, Missouri after news that Michael Brown was fatally shot by police. As a civic-minded college student, he went up to Ferguson to help register people to vote, with the hopes that more engagement in the elections could
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Another work week in the books. For Southeast startups, this week brought early-stage and later-stage funding headlines...and news of a global headquarter relocation. To round out your Friday, we’ve curated the biggest innovation news from across the region to make sure you are up-to-date with all the latest.
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Ifrah Khan has a knack for building marketplace startups. She founded her first one, an on-demand babysitting mobile app called Usit, while she was still a student at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. Over three years, Atlanta college students earned over a million dollars through babysitting and thousands of
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Women Who Code (WWC), an international tech community headquartered in Atlanta, announced late last week that it was abruptly shutting down operations. The organization was started by a group of engineers in San Francisco in 2011 with the expressed goal of bringing more women into the tech community. After cementing
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Breaking into the music and entertainment industry can often come down to ‘who you know’ instead of ‘what you know.’ That was a reality Nikki Sanz saw first-hand as she built up her career as a production assistant and tour manager across Nashville’s music and live events scene. “Traditionally,
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Langdon Morris has put together a roadmap to how we can create a true, clean world. He is the author of Net Zero City, a book that suggests that there is a path to curb the climate crisis by the year 2032. Any way you look at it, that is
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Clean-focused technology companies across the country are having a moment. Public and private spending into space is up this year. And VC dollars into Cleantech grew 30% over the last two years despite overall VC funding dips, according to Crunchbase data. The Southeast has long been a hub for Cleantech
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When entrepreneur Alex Edquist started diving into the world of regenerative agriculture, there was just something that didn’t make sense to her. The method of farming, where farmers “cultivate a whole ecosystem” of products instead of just one of two cash crops, yields healthier food and better environmental outcomes.
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Atlanta based tech startup Hannibal AI aims to solve complex business problems for clients with strategic development and use of AI — but with a unique guiding philosophy. Created by co-founders Paul Wallace (CEO) and Levi Perkins (CTO), alongside Georgii Speakman (Senior Partner), Hannibal AI’s vision is guided by the