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Invest Georgia-Backed Knoll Ventures Fills A Funding Gap for the Southeast’s Early-Stage Startups

Invest Georgia-Backed Knoll Ventures Fills A Funding Gap for the Southeast’s Early-Stage Startups

Anyone who reads Fortune or follows Crunchbase News on Twitter has heard about the "supergiant" funding rounds of today's venture capital landscape — SoftBank and other mega-funds betting hundreds of millions, even billions, on relatively new companies. It stands that this phenomenon has altered startup funding across

Networking Startup Mixtroz Raises $1 Million Seed Round Following Rise of the Rest Win

Networking Startup Mixtroz Raises $1 Million Seed Round Following Rise of the Rest Win

Mixtroz, a platform that facilitates better networking at events, has raised a $1 million seed round. This follows the mother-daughter founder duo's win of a $100K investment at Revolution's Rise of the Rest pitch competition in Birmingham, Alabama this past May. "I think in our

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Governments Are Now Using BitPay to Collect Taxes By Bitcoin

There’s been lots of questions around how the government should deal with taxing cryptocurrency income and assets — are they a commodity? A security? Can you be unknowingly convicted of tax evasion? But as of this week, one U.S. state has begun using cryptocurre ncy to help facilitate tax

Microsoft Acquires Atlanta's FSLogix to Enhance Virtual Workforce Solutions

Microsoft Acquires Atlanta's FSLogix to Enhance Virtual Workforce Solutions

Atlanta-based virtual workspace solutions company FSLogix has been acquired by Microsoft for an undisclosed amount. The software giant will enhance their recently-launched Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop solution by integrating the five-year-old startup's technology. "From the beginning, in working closely with several teams at Microsoft, we recognized that

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Cove.Tool Closes Seed Round to Automate Sustainable Building

Atlanta-based Cove.Tool, an energy efficiency automation platform for the building industry, has closed a $750K seed round to ramp up their marketing, sales and development. The team is confident that they have built a platform that can automate up to 50 percent of the mundane tasks that a sustainability

IBM's Atlanta Team Designs Mobile Cybersecurity Training Simulator In An 18-Wheeler

IBM's Atlanta Team Designs Mobile Cybersecurity Training Simulator In An 18-Wheeler

"You can bring in a group of corporate executives or security team and basically run them through what their worst day at work is going to feel like." That's how Caleb Barlow, Vice President of Threat Intelligence at IBM Security, describes IBM's X-Force Command

The Fifth Atlanta Startup Battle Adds Two Winners to the TechSquare Labs Family

The Fifth Atlanta Startup Battle Adds Two Winners to the TechSquare Labs Family

Atlanta's startup and business community descended on Midtown's TechSquare Labs on Tuesday night for the fifth Atlanta Startup Battle, a quarterly pitch competition where the winner walks away with a $100,000 investment from the Labs' early-stage fund. After five pitches, in a surprise announcement,