Friday Fund Day: What Southeast Startups Made News The Week of March 17, 2025
Ditto. WineView. TriNet. Rimidi. Inn-Flow. These are a few Southeast companies that made headlines this week.
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From Music City, AI-Powered Content Verification Startup ViNIL Wants To Keep Deepfakes and Digital Deception in Check
ViNIL uses AI-powered fingerprinting technology to verify video, audio, and images—protecting creators, celebrities, and brands from deepfakes and unauthorized content online.
Atlanta Fintech Ditch Evolves With Debt Repayment Perks for Employees
Last year the Ditch team started focusing on building out its round up tool, which enables users to make small payments towards their liabilities like credit card balances, student loans, and car payments every time they swipe their card. The goal is to help people make paying down debt easier.
With a growing fleet in Atlanta, Swift Ride looks to make car subscriptions more accessible
"Swift Ride was born from a real problem we saw firsthand—people needed cars, but traditional ownership and leasing were expensive, rigid, and slow. Gig workers, newcomers to a city, or people in life transitions often didn’t qualify for leases or didn’t want to take on long-term debt."
Atlanta-based supply chain startup PorterLogic, built by Georgia Tech grads, gets acquired
PorterLogic was built under the leadership of Jonathan Porter, Founder and CPO/CTO, and Anya Skomorokhova, co-founder and CEO. Porter and Skomorokhova, two Georgia Tech graduates, worked with Lucasys' CTO at a previous startup, and then worked with the Lucasys’ team during 2020 and 2022 while Porter