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Fieldwork Software SingleOps Raises $1.6M Series A From Atlanta Ventures' David Cummings

Fieldwork Software SingleOps Raises $1.6M Series A From Atlanta Ventures' David Cummings

Business management software startup SingleOps has raised a Series A of $1.6 million led by entrepreneur-investor David Cummings of Atlanta Ventures. The team recently signed a lease for a new 4,500 square-foot office space to house its growing team. "Since we closed our seed round about two

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Minority-Focused Russell Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Opens to First Members

In the year since Jay Bailey has taken over at the Herman J. Russell Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a business-building incubator that aims to broaden opportunity for minority residents, the native Atlantan entrepreneur has been busy. RCIE occupies a 50,000 square foot campus in Castleberry Hill, a rapidly-growing

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Techstars LegalTech Firm Is the Latest Startup Heading to Birmingham For New Opportunity

It’s not often that you hear a founder describe the process of working with an investor as “really falling in love,” but that’s what Lauren Sturdivant describes when she talks about her seed round investor, the Alabama Futures Fund. Beyond leading the $725K seed round in Sturdivant’s

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Warner Music Boost Fund's First Investment Is A Universal Instrument Startup

Universal instrument startup Artiphon has become the first public investment for Warner Music Group’s Boost fund, a seed-stage fund for innovative music startups. WMG’s investment was part of the Nashville-based startup’s first institutional round, a $2 million seed. Jacob Gordon, Artiphon's co-founder and Chief Marketing

Spare Change Donation App Softgiving Launches Rebates App To Donate With Each Purchase

Spare Change Donation App Softgiving Launches Rebates App To Donate With Each Purchase

A cold call led Softgiving CEO Matt Pfaltzgraf to a conversation with the head of national partnerships at World Vision, one of the largest relief and advocacy organizations in the world. World Vision was looking for a non-traditional solution to connect with a younger demographic. Pfaltzgraf sold them on the

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Two Years In, Atlanta's Ascend2020 Graduates One Of the Country's Biggest Minority Tech Founder Cohorts

In a nondescript auditorium at Morehouse College, two dozen entrepreneurs pitched their growing or recently-formed startup concept to a room of investors, community members, and supporters. Last week’s event looked just like any other of the countless Demo Days that take place across the country, except for one thing:

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With Google for Startups Partnership, Veteran Capital's Mission Is Southeast Expansion

Last year, former U.S. Army Company Commander Tim Horan became Veteran-in-Residence at American Underground, the largest tech hub in North Carolina’s Research Triangle. His mission: to build a pipeline of transitioning service members out of nearby Fort Bragg that could fill open jobs at AU’s 275+ startup