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Junko Tabei, the first woman to summit Mount Everest in 1975, serves as an apt namesake for one fast-growing startup in Birmingham. It certainly does take grit and perseverance to improve how tech companies source great talent. Joonko, the brainchild of Ilit Raz, is a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)
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Betty Blocks, a Netherlands-based application platform as a service (aPaaS) startup with a strong presence in Atlanta, already counts Deloitte, The Salvation Army, and the National Dutch Police as core customers. Now, the team has raised $33 million in funding to help non-programmers build apps. “We are focused on business
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A struggle over an apartment security deposit has been spun into a rapidly scaling startup with roots across the Southeast. Based out of New Orleans, RentCheck was started after Lydia Winkler was moving out of her first-year law school apartment. “I never got my security deposit back,” she tells Hypepotamus.
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From vitamins to minerals to weight loss pills, consumers have thousands of dietary supplements to choose from. But what if you could find a formula made just for you? Enter Rootine, a Nashville-based precision health startup. Leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to look at individual DNA, blood, and lifestyle test results,
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Two Southeastern-based HealthTech startups are joining forces to improve communication between patients and doctor’s offices. Nashville-based Relatient, Inc., a patient engagement software startup, announced today it has signed a definitive agreement to merge with Radix Health, an Atlanta-based patient-focused technology company. Arun Mohan, Radix Health’s co-founder and CEO,
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SalesLoft. Calendly. Greenlight. And now, Fullstory. Atlanta has seen four homegrown tech startups become unicorns this year, with the most recent announcement that customer experience data app Fullstory reached a $1.8 billion valuation with its $103 million Series D round of funding. Permira led the round and was joined
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"As the economy reopens in the wake of the COVID pandemic, employers face a new challenge: Finding enough people to hire," says Adam Robinson, CEO of Hireology. The NFIB reports that 46 percent of small business owners have job openings they cannot fill even while raising pay. Against
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This Raleigh startup on a mission to end asthma attacks and chronic lung disease is pushing ahead after landing $2.14 million. VitalFlo, a startup that has developed a lung analytics platform, secured seed funding from the Texas-based Geekdom Fund after growing “17 times over the last 12 months.” Elevate
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For Atlanta-based Ubuntoo, the increased focus on sustainability from consumers and companies alike has helped its marketplace grow over the past few years. As Chief Marketing Officer Yuri Pereira explains, “sustainability and profitability used to not necessarily be aligned...but not anymore. That’s bringing a surge in terms of
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The large funding round headlines keep coming in for the Atlanta tech scene. On the heels of its November 2020 $45 million Series C raise, Flock Safety just closed a $150 million Series D round to help scale. “Simply put, we are growing incredibly fast and the demand is increasing,
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This Nashville healthcare data startup is getting ready to scale after landing $75 million in funds. XSOLIS (pronounced similarly to “excellence’) this week confirmed it secured a “minority growth” investment from Brighton Park Capital, a Connecticut-based firm specializing in growth-stage healthtech firms. "This investment will be a catalyst as
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How VCs deploy capital is fundamentally flawed, says the team behind World Within Ventures. They’ve closed an inaugural $20 million fund to change the narrative around what funding humanitarian-focused startups can look like. World Within’s portfolio companies to date already provide interesting insight into how the founders think