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One Atlanta-based healthcare giant is staking its claim in the city’s entrepreneurial scene. Wellstar Health Systems announced it will join Engage’s growing list of corporate partners. As a hybrid innovation and corporate venture platform, Engage is designed to connect enterprise startups with corporate sponsors and academic research to
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We’ve come a long way from the time of makeshift masks and watered-down hand sanitizer that plagued the spring of 2020. And while vaccine rollouts have brought new hope for the end of the pandemic, manufacturers across the state of Georgia are continuing to fill in a critical personal
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One emerging media platform has big plans to build the future of streaming right from Atlanta. LoCo+, a city-based streaming network officially launching in the summer of 2021, is looking to bring premium, locally-produced content to digital media fans. Its founding team has deep roots in media, entrepreneurship, and technology.
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After seven years of work with Georgia Tech, drummer Jason Barnes has an advanced robotic prosthetic to take his musical talents to the next level. Barnes lost his lower right arm during an electrical accident in 2012. While studying at the Atlanta Institute of Music and Media, he was looking
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Logistics and analytics startup FreightWaves is ready to make sustainability an integral part of the transportation industry. “Shippers already think about cost, transit times, and service levels when they're designing their supply chains. We want to make carbon the fourth variable,” Craig Fuller, Chief Executive Officer & Founder
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Taking off your shoes to go through airport security may soon be a thing of the past. Atlanta’s Liberty Defense, with funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and technology from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), is commercializing two new checkpoint screening technologies, the Shoe Scanner and
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Shyft Auto founders say they didn’t have a pandemic in mind when they originally developed a tech platform to help car dealerships go “contactless.” Then COVID-19 hit, just as they were launching, and it became even more relevant. “When repair shops closed their waiting areas, our contactless tool for
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This software firm is getting ready to further disrupt the construction market after landing $190 million in funding. Meet Prescient, a Charlotte-based digital design-build company that is leveraging offsite manufacturing and lightweight steel construction to lower costs and save time for architects and general contractors. This week, against the backdrop
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The Atlanta advertising and marketing tech scene continues to make waves nationally. CallRail, an advertising and analytics startup, just announced its first acquisition. New York-based PhoneWagon, a four-year-old call tracking software company, will join CallRail and expand the company’s market share in the call analytics space. The acquisition news
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Florence Healthcare, the Atlanta-based software startup streamlining clinical trials, has raised an $80 million Series C round led by Insight Partners. Existing investors Atlanta-based Fulcrum Equity Partners, San Francisco-based Bee Partners, and London-based Flashpoint also joined the round. Ryan Jones, co-founder and CEO of Florence, said the new investment comes
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Going through an accelerator can be a rite of passage for many startups looking to build or scale a business. But a mini-accelerator? Atlanta-based Goodie Nation is teaming up with Verizon with a short-form program specifically designed to help diverse founders get marketing and communications (MarCom) training. The MarCom Mini-Accelerator,
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Morris Brown College has a comeback story. And Atlanta’s competitive gaming scene will be an important chapter. Founded in 1881 as one of Atlanta’s HBCUs, Morris Brown lost its accreditation in 2002. While enrollment at the school fluctuated between 30 to 50 students over the last nineteen years,