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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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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
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Ahead of taking the Venture Atlanta stage next week, local nonprofit-focused fintech startup Infinite Giving announced it has brought on a new group of investors. The startup just closed a $2 million seed round led by Cubit Capital, Morgan Stanley, and Atlanta Ventures. It also announced it will be participating
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Amia Mize didn’t originally envision herself as an entrepreneur. She built her career in the corporate world at Comcast, working as a Production Agent Supervisor for the telecommunications giant while raising her family in Atlanta. However, a personal challenge with school drop-offs and pickups eventually led her into the
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Sports fans and concert goers alike are all too familiar with the frustration of security bag checks, where a simple purse can turn into a major inconvenience. The hassle starts before you even leave the house. A person must ensure that they have a bag that meets the venue’s
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As the new school year kicks off, students, parents, and educators alike are sharpening their pencils, plugging in devices…and logging into new startup platforms to help kids find success inside the classroom. While VC funding into the EdTech (educational technology) sector has significantly slowed over the last year from
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Janessa Ferrell, Co-founder and CEO of QuestRead, left her career as a school teacher in 2019 to solve the reading proficiency gap. While she was working on solving this problem, the world halted. The pandemic had a large impact on education and new research from Education Recovery Scorecard found that
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The startup world is inherently forward-looking. Investors are searching for the next big thing. Founders are constantly thinking about how to stay ahead of the competition. Pitches and Demo Days focus on what new technologies are set to arrive next on the scene. From revenue projections to customer acquisition cost
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FinTech, BioTech, HealthTech…and now, FashionTech? There are a growing number of startups in the Southeast that are working at the intersection of fashion and technology. Some are helping parents buy and sell second-hand baby items. Others are connecting college students through shared wardrobes. A few are even providing personalized
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Laura Jorgensen and Courteney Lowe, professional cyclists turned entrepreneurs, started The RunnerBox and The RiderBox as an athlete-focused subscription service. But while building the direct-to-consumer (D2C) company, they recognized a gap in the market. Specifically, it is hard for athletes to find their favorite new refueling options. While subscription boxes
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Cybersecurity professionals face ever-increasing challenges in protecting sensitive data and systems from sophisticated threats. To better equip those on the front lines, we reached out to cybersecurity professionals, startup founders, and CEOs to gather insights and get their practical advice on staying ahead of cyber adversaries. In our latest We
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In general, the SaaS world has struggled over the last year and a half. 2023 was another down year for venture capital going into enterprise software, with the value of those transactions slipping 33% last year, according to data collected by PitchBook. And the outlook hasn’t been much better