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Tennessee native Eller Kelliher built her career across the state’s venture capital scene. She started as an intern at the angel fund The JumpFund in Chattanooga and then moved her way up the ranks at Jumpstart Foundry, a seed-stage healthcare innovation fund based out of Nashville. She served as
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Atlanta-based Fulcrum Equity Partners set out to raise $300 to $350 million for its Fund V. But it turns out that a lot of new and returning investors wanted into the limited partner (LP) pool…and today Fulcrum announced it has closed the round at an impressive $372 million. Raising
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Up on the eighth floor of Midtown’s 999 Peachtree Building, overlooking the iconic Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, you’ll find what Charles Potts refers to as “the front door to community banks.” That ‘front door’ opens up to the new Center for Innovation for ICBA (the Independent Community
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There are three words that a lot of startups would love to use to describe their business…especially in 2023. “Cash flow positive” You know that’s easier said than done though. If cash flow positive or reducing cash burn is a goal you have, then the good news is
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450 investors, representing 300 funds, were in Atlanta this week to meet one-on-one with founders and hear pitches from 83 promising startups on stage at Venture Atlanta 2023. 80% of those funds came from out of town to participate in the conference and the dozens of pre and post-event gatherings
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However the numbers are sliced, it’s been a quiet year for venture capitalists. Despite sitting on a lot of cash – around $271 billion of dry powder by some estimates – the number of investment checks cashed by startups is down 53% year-over-year and are even down below pre-pandemic levels. Newly-minted
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Cox Enterprises is no stranger to the Atlanta startup scene. The broadband, automotive services, and media giant powers two of Atlanta’s Techstars programs, is a corporate sponsor of Engage, was part of launching Endeavor Atlanta, put $150 million into the fast-growing cleantech startup Nexus Circular earlier this year, and
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TTV Capital, an Atlanta-based fintech venture capital firm, has tapped a veteran in the payments space as a new Venture Partner. Paul Todd most recently served as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at transaction processing giant Global Payments, a Fortune 500 company based in Atlanta. After working
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Coming out of stealth mode, the team behind Dori has a big vision for the future of the VC world. Specifically, the Atlanta-based startup wants to “help a first time founder fundraise like a serial entrepreneur,” said CEO and co-founder Sarosh Shahbuddin. The fundraising world is brutal for most first-time
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Any way you slice the numbers, there is certainly a “glaring gap” in the venture capital community. On the founder side of the table, women-founded startups received just 2.3% of all VC dollars invested in 2020 (down from a record 2.8% in 2019), according to available Crunchbase data.
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Matt Patterson and Cam Doody used to help people move from house to house with their Chattanooga-based moving startup Bellhop. With the launch of their latest venture, the pair is now hoping to move full companies down to the city. Patterson and Doody launched Brickyard as a new take on
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North Carolina has landed a new international VC. SixThirty, a St. Louis-based firm with roots in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Amsterdam, announced it is opening up operations in the Research Triangle area and is tapping a local investor to do just that. Joe Darcy, who received his MBA from UNC,