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Atlanta BioTech and life science startups have historically been at a disadvantage. Unlike Boston, San Francisco, and the DC area, Atlanta has lacked both significant lab space and capital opportunities to ensure that up-and-coming ventures can grow and scale in town. Portal Innovations is ready to change that. This month,
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Atlanta just landed a new startup accelerator. Cox Enterprises and gener8tor, a global venture firm and startup accelerator, announced today the launch of the Cox Cleantech Accelerator. The bi-annual 12-week program will support five of the most promising cleantech startups in each cohort. Startups will receive a $100,000 investment,
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Atlanta-based venture capital firm Vocap Partners has appointed a new General Partner. Emery Waddell, who has been with Vocap since 2015, was promoted to General Partner this week after serving as the firm’s Principal. Vocap is an early growth equity firm that works with post-product market fit companies in
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Techstars Tuscaloosa has tapped Anastasia Simon as the program’s first Managing Director. Simon is a natural fit for the program, which will focus on supporting WaterTech and Sustainability startups. She's been a star of the Atlanta tech ecosystem, moving from the startup to the investor side of
Investor Spotlights
Fulcrum Equity Partners, one of Atlanta’s largest and most active growth equity firms, is adding to its investing team. Junior Gaspard has been named as Fulcrum's latest Principal, according to a statement released last week. Gaspard is no stranger to the Atlanta tech and startup ecosystem. He
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Investor Charles Robinson is on a mission to change the City of Durham, one business district at a time. To start, he’s eyeing Hayti District, a historic neighborhood that served as the social and cultural center for the city’s Black community. Robinson is working with a new Social
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It’s a problem that we are all too familiar with: The dreaded “Out of Stock” sign when shopping for that one specific item. It can be a nuisance, but it can be an absolute nightmare for brands, manufacturers, and retailers. Because as much as they don’t want to
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Atlanta-based BIP Ventures is out with its latest State of Investing and Startups report. This mid-year private capital report provides some important color and context into how the venture capital world has changed following the rise of generative AI and 2023’s venture banking crisis. And the data gives us
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Late last year, the State of Tennessee changed its Department of Commerce and Insurance’s securities rules to exempt venture capital firms from the requirement of full registration as an investment adviser. As CEO of Launch Tennessee Lindsey Cox penned in The Tennessean newspaper, that rule change and new flexibility
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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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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