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Torrence Reed and Richard Berryman don’t think about cybersecurity just as a big business problem. For them, it’s ultimately a social problem. Be it major cities like Atlanta getting hacked or individuals losing their homes during cyber scams, digital vulnerabilities create real-world headaches for people and businesses every
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Panoramic Ventures is adding to its executive team. Both Christy Johnson (General Partner and Chief Performance Officer) and Mike Vandiver (Senior Vice President of Portfolio Performance) joined the Atlanta-based VC firm officially in February. The two join Managing Partners Mark Buffington and Paul Judge and General Partners Paul Iaffaldano, Dan
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The superlatives keep flooding in for cities across the Southeast. From Atlanta being called a “dream city” for most Americans to Charlotte and Tallahassee experiencing the largest influx of newbies over the course of 2022, it certainly feels like just about everybody is moving to the region. But adding hundreds
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The amount of potential seed money in the Southeast startup world is growing yet again. Cofounders Capital, an early-stage VC firm in North Carolina, recently closed a $50 million fund. The fund, the third in the company’s history, is also the largest amount raised by David Gardner, Tim McLoughlin,
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Matt Urmy’s career as a singer-songwriter was growing when he recognized a flaw in the music industry. “We were starting to take meetings with more sophisticated potential business partners, artists, managers, and agents. And the more of those meetings we took, the more we realized that despite having growing
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For the last five years, Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia has topped the charts as the most innovative liberal arts school in the nation by US News & World Report. Behind that ranking is a mix of classes and off-campus experiences designed to build the next group of innovative
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The fintech-focused VC firm TTV Capital set out in late 2021 to raise $150 million for its next fund. This week, the Atlanta-based team announced it oversubscribed that fund, the sixth in the company’s history, at $250 million. The oversubscribed Fund VI includes pension funds, endowments, foundations, family offices,
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At the end of the day, every small business owner longs to turn a profit. Maybe you didn’t get into your business simply to turn a buck, but you still need to stay in the black if you want to keep making your products and leading your team. If
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Tennessee startups have a new local investment pool to tap into thanks to LaunchTN and funding secured through the American Rescue Plan. The state was one of four across the country to receive additional State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) funding under the American Rescue Plan, according to a statement
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Can you imagine spending $80 million on a single-use product? Andrew Levy and Sam Birdsong saw that happen on multiple occasions while producing videos for enterprise companies over the last ten years. The two Athens, Georgia-based founders and filmmakers realized a fundamental flaw when it came to how companies think
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Social media not only created new job opportunities for budding marketers, but also gave rise to an entirely new subset of celebrities. The social media influencer is ubiquitous on platforms like Tik Tok on Instagram today. And those influencers are bringing in some serious cash, as the influencer marketing industry
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While Falaya is tackling a universal problem in the real estate world, its name is deeply rooted in its home turf of Louisiana. Borrowing from a word in the Choctaw language for long river, the goal of the early-stage startup is to connect the different parts of the real estate