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Atlanta tech entrepreneur Jewel Burks Solomon has been named head of Google for Startups for the U.S., Hypepotamus has confirmed. Solomon is not only the first African-American woman to have this title — a highly significant matter in itself — but she is also the first person to ever hold the
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Comcast NBCUniversal has announced the launch of SportsTech, a three-month global accelerator for multi-stage sports technology startups that will be based in Atlanta. The accelerator features what Comcast NBCUniversal calls an “unprecedented partnership” between three of the broadcast giant’s sports brands – NBC Sports, Sky Sports and Golf Channel, as
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Six months after exiting stealth mode with a $26 million Series A funding round, Sense Photonics, a Durham-based company dedicated to providing flash light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology for self-driving cars, has announced its official entry into the automotive market with the first modular flash LiDAR unit for advanced
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Across industries, training videos are known to be the opposite of fun. In most cases, they even struggle to be interesting, which surely isn’t great for their intended purpose. Still, these training videos — essential to employee orientation and famous for being dreadful — are necessary, and usually mandatory for anyone
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OncoLens, an Atlanta-based SaaS platform dedicated to streamlining the planning of cancer treatment, has announced the closing of a $2.5M pre-Series A funding round led by BIP Capital. Atlanta Technology Angels and the Robbins Fund also participated in the round; all three had previously invested in OncoLens’ seed round
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Levelset, a New Orleans-based SaaS platform that helps relieve cash flow issues for contractors by getting them paid more quickly, has announced a $30 million Series C round of funding led by Horizons Ventures. S3 Ventures, Altos Ventures, Operating Venture Capital, as well as Michael Gollner and Darren Bechtel of