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The Southeast region is now home to over 300 individual venture capital firms, according to data collected by Embarc Collective and Build In SE’s Southeast Capital Landscape Report, a directory of active investors in the region. That number — 309 at the time of this publication — is up more than
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HR has been front and center as businesses of all sizes navigate labor shortages, new office realities, and future of work conversations spurred by the pandemic. “WorkTech”, which broadly includes recruitment, assessment, and interviewing tools, brought in $28.4 billion in venture capital investment since the beginning of 2017. It
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The Southeast's largest and most prestigious venture capital conference, Venture Atlanta, has launched several area unicorns and helped startups raised $6.5 billion in funding to date. 91 new companies selected to present on the stage in 2021 will look to continue that momentum. CEO Allyson Eman said
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You might say the past and the future are colliding in Pass It Down’s latest investment. VentureSouth, Cultivation Capital, Techstars, Red Stick Angels, and Acadian Capital Ventures joined in on a nearly $2 million seed round to launch Iconic Moments, an NFT (non-fungible token) marketplace created by the team
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Investors at Atlanta firms Panoramic Ventures and Fulcrum Equity Partners are continuing to back local mobile experience platform Kobiton. The two firms announced this week they are investing an additional $12 million round in the scaling startup. “[Panoramic and Fulcrum] fundamentally understand our unique technology and our competitive differentiators,” the
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Stord has been on the front line of the changing logistics landscape since pivoting into the warehouse space in 2017. That change has been particularly apparent in the aftermath of the pandemic, says Stord co-founder Sean Henry. “When the pandemic started, companies were adopting Stord for agile capacity across their
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Ty Abernethy has spent the last decade using tech to address the inefficient process of hiring new talent. The University of Georgia grad co-founded ConveyIQ in New York in 2012, an interviewing platform ultimately acquired by Entelo. Atlanta Ventures has taken note of his latest startup, the Atlanta-based candidate engagement
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A new era of branding is upon us, and it is already bringing in big bucks for athletes across the South. As of July 1 of this year, NCAA athletes can be compensated for their name, image, and likeness (NIL), something previously banned for amateur athletes. This can look like
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Before bringing his startup to the sky, Matt Sloane knew how to make headlines. Sloane worked at CNN for 14 years, a majority of which was spent as a medical producer. In April 2014, during the latter part of his tenure at the company, he was asked to speak at
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Two Atlanta-based brothers are looking to make the lending space more equitable. Unlike traditional lending platforms, VIVA Finance looks primarily at an applicant’s job status and not a credit score. “Due to the difficulty in accessing reliable employment-based data, these data points are not as heavily weighted in typical
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Eight French startups have reached unicorn status in the first half of 2021 alone, making it one of the fastest-growing startup hubs in Europe. Atlanta could play a unique role in creating even more “FrenchTech” in the near future. Atlanta received accreditation by La French Tech, a French government-back initiative,
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That stack of random gift cards in your wallet could be turned directly into cash in your bank account, thanks to a Birmingham-based startup. Prepaid2Cash, which moved its HQ from San Francisco to Birmingham, Alabama’s Innovation Depot back in 2019, has seen rapid growth over the course of the