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We are all familiar with the rituals that surround the grieving process. Condolence cards are collected. The obit is submitted. The funeral is planned. During that time, grievers might be bombarded with well wishers looking to help out. But in the weeks and months after a tragedy, they are often
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Nestled off a quiet side street near Downtown Decatur is an office ready to launch the startups both you and your neighbors will be talking about next. Neighborhood Studios officially came out of stealth mode this week. And its goal is very focused: Launch hyperlocal startups. Building a “hyperlocal” venture
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Celebrating its 15th year, Georgia Tech's InVenture Prize brought some of most promising student entrepreneurs together on the stage of the Ferst Center for the Arts last night. For those unfamiliar with the pitch competition, the InVenture Prize is the largest undergraduate collegiate invention competition in the United
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Avoilan Bingham has been a staple in the local startup accelerator and startup scene over the last several years. The Atlanta native was an early-stage portfolio manager for Goodie Nation, the Atlanta-based accelerator program for diverse founders, and was Managing Partner at Atlanta’s early-stage VC fund investing and growth
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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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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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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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Atlanta startups like SnapNurse, Stord, and PrizePicks have been a staple on the Inc. 5000 List, put out annually by the business magazine Inc. to rank the fastest-growing privately held companies in the US. Now the City of Atlanta itself is on top of Inc. Magazine’s list. The City
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Editor’s note: This article was first published in Global Atlanta, an online news publication devoted to revealing the city’s ties with the world and helping local companies navigate the global economy.-- A top accelerator for mobility startups in Israel returned to Atlanta for the second straight year