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We tracked upwards of 50 tech startups across the Southeast that completed funding rounds this quarter. Take a look at how the ecosystem is growing: Startups With New Funding Atlanta: Greenlight completed it's Series D, totaling $260 million Atlanta: OneTrust raised $210 million in its Series C round
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When Hypepotamus last spoke to Popmenu’s CEO Brendan Sweeney in the fall, the Atlanta SaaS startup had just raised a $17 million Series B to help restaurants stay afloat during pandemic closures. Now in summer 2021, Sweeney is seeing a drastic turn in the restaurant space. “There’s a
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Google for Startups Black Founders Fund is back for 2021. The $5 million fund, announced today, will give $100,000 in non-dilutive funds to 50 Black startup founders across the country. But Atlanta’s influence is all over this national program. Google for Startups US, headed by Jewel Burks Solomon,
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Women make up less than 5% of all venture capitalists in the country. That statistic alone is enough to make anyone pause. But a new group is looking to build community and create opportunities for women check writers and fund managers in the Southeast region. WISE (Women Investors in the
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A Techstars Social Impact Accelerator graduate finished off the month of May with a $2,153,485 equity round and is ready to take on supply chain management in the EnergyTech space. Durham-based EnMass Energy looks to simplify the supply chain for energy businesses by connecting data from suppliers, transporters,
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Networking events have transformed over the last year and a half, but that isn’t stopping the momentum over at Network Under 40 (NU40). The team just announced it has been acquired by Meeting of the Minds, a private membership community for high-growth entrepreneurs also based in Atlanta, Georgia. Meeting
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Atlanta-based Automotive Ventures has closed its inaugural, oversubscribed $7 million fund. The fund looks to invest in the expanding automotive and mobility space, which includes the electrification of cars, the explosion of auto-specific data analytics, and sensor technology, and even how we think about car ownership. Steve Greenfield and Justin
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Filmmakers, engineers, and entrepreneurs are coming together to bring a new type of adventure to the Eastside BeltLine trail. Illuminarium, an experiential educational and entertainment venue, is launching this summer with a ‘reprogrammable’ immersive theater. Its first adventure: A full African safari. The interactive virtual experience will allow visitors to
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When COVID shut down their shop space, three NC State graduates spent the spring and summer of 2020 in a parking lot building the future of hybrid cars. “We had freezing rain, then 100-degree heat in the middle of summer,” Micah Ulrich told Hypepotamus. “I never could have predicted that
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Two North Carolina startups are teaming up to turn words into enterprise gold. Winston Salem-based Fluree, which is backed by Atlanta’s Engage program, is working with Lead Semantics on TextDistil, a platform to build custom language processing pipelines for enterprise data. TextDistil turns text and unstructured data from contracts,
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Three Shipt alumni are rethinking the way we network. Linq, a networking tech startup hailing from Birmingham, just closed a $2.5 million seed round to grow its QR and “near field communication” (NFC) platform. The round was led by Mucker Capital with participation from Alabama Futures Fund and Shipt
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In just over a year, Atlanta-based Collab Capital closed its $50 million inaugural fund. Collab’s founding team is Jewel Burks Solomon, Justin Dawkins, and Barry Givens. Dawkins and Givens sat down with Hypepotamus last summer to discuss the fund’s investing thesis, fostering Black innovation, and building generational wealth.