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From launching the careers of emerging artists to serving as the HQ for legacy media companies like Turner and Cox, Atlanta’s influence on music, culture, and the entertainment industry can’t be overstated. Now, local investors and Mark Cuban are backing an Atlanta-based media group looking to grow the
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The last time we caught up with DC BLOX, the team had just closed a $15 million Series A round and was eyeing expansion of its modular data centers. Since then, both the pandemic and the proliferation of data-focused companies across the country helped the Atlanta-based company grow. Last week,
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Here's what Southeast startups were up to in Q1 of 2021! New Unicorns * Atlanta-based Calendly raised an impressive $350 million, bringing the scheduling company's value to $3 billion * Following a $100 million Series E funding round, Atlanta-based SalesLoft valuation hit $1.1 billion Series C * Atlanta-based
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Atlanta-based Stord is wrapping up Q1 2021 with a Series C funding round sure to turn heads across the supply chain field. The $65 million Series C round, led by new investors BOND, Salesforce Ventures, and Lineage Ventures, brings the startup’s total capital raised over the last 6 months
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Necessity, the old proverb says, is the mother of invention. For two Atlanta entrepreneurs, necessity came after accidentally wiping out an entire year’s worth of work with one click. Brad Smith, a “non-engineer”, met Jack McGlinchey, a product manager, at another Atlanta-based startup. “The two often riffed on the
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Despite the headlines around unicorns and larger funding rounds, Atlanta venture capital leaders Michael Cohn and Sean O’Brien still recognized a problem for local seed-stage companies. Namely, that it is still hard to raise the first few rounds of institutional capital within the region. “For founders who raised capital
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Durham’s Black Wall Street may be long gone, but a team of local angel investors is working on a comeback of sorts. Meet Resilient Ventures, a new fund “inspired by [its] legacy,” specifically targeting African American-led startups from around the country. This month, two years after its launch and
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Andrew Vaughan has signed on as Verusen’s new Chief Technology Officer. Vaughan brings his background in engineering, product, and supply chain to the growing Atlanta-based startup. He joined Groupon’s engineering team in Chicago right before the company’s IPO and later served as Hyatt Hotels' Global Chief
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Two eLearning companies are joining forces to improve employee training opportunities. Earlier this month Canada’s Axonify announced its acquisition of MLevel, an Atlanta-based digital learning platform designed to help companies build interactive games to improve engagement and retention through employee training programs. The financials of the deal were not
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As Fulcrum Equity Partners closed its fourth fund, an oversubscribed and totaling $275 million, Frank Dalton and Tom Greer spoke to Hypepotamus about what this means for the future of the firm. “With our fund size, we're now able to become a pretty strong financial partner,” said Dalton.
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In the neverending quest to remember each and every one of our passwords, Trust Stamp has made an acquisition designed to make the process a bit more picture-perfect. The Atlanta-based fraud detection company announced it has acquired PixelPin, an image-based account authentication startup based out of London. PixelPin users select
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Medical technology has come a long way in terms of innovations in treatments, improved surgical outcomes, and the management of previously untreatable illnesses. However, there is a disconnect between provider and patient when it comes to communication. “It’s no secret that healthcare is behind other industries when it comes