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Community Foundation Launches Atlanta's First Impact Investment Fund With Initial $10M

The Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta, an organization which connects philanthropists and foundations with non-profits, has launched an impact investment fund focused on Atlanta. The GoATL fund has been initially capitalized with $10 million from the Community Foundation’s unrestricted assets, with the intent to open it up to hundreds

SaaS Application Management Platform BetterCloud Busts Through Challenging Period to Land $60M Round

SaaS Application Management Platform BetterCloud Busts Through Challenging Period to Land $60M Round

SaaS operations management platform BetterCloud has closed a $60 million Series E funding round led by new investor Bain Capital Ventures. The capital will be leveraged to scale sales and marketing and accelerate product innovation within the platform. "We’ve come a long way in the past year, but

Georgia Dairy Farm First in the U.S. to Adopt Google-Powered Machine Learning Wearable for Cows

Georgia Dairy Farm First in the U.S. to Adopt Google-Powered Machine Learning Wearable for Cows

Cows residing at Hart Agriculture's Seven Oaks Dairy farm in Waynesboro, Georgia are ready for the spotlight as they're currently sporting the latest artificial intelligence technology. Through a partnership between Amsterdam-based startup Connecterra and Google's open-source technology Tensorflow, the Seven Oaks cows are the

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New City of Atlanta Program Will Pay Interns to Work At Startups

The tech talent gap is wide, with a projected one million open computer science-related jobs by 2020. That’s exacerbated in Atlanta by the southern brain drain — many of the most talented graduates still leave to pursue their dreams in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. To counteract the perspective that you

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Remote Workspace Solution FSLogix Raises $7.5M Series C to Fuel Marketing and Further International Expansion

Virtual workspace solutions company FSLogix has closed a $7.5 million Series C funding round led by Atlanta-based Noro-Moseley Partners and Washington, DC-based TDF Ventures. FSLogix saw an over 300 percent increase in revenue in 2017 — their customer base has grown more than five-fold since 2015. The Series C funds

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SalesLoft Raises $50M Series C to Double Workforce; Prepares to Launch New AI Product

Atlanta-headquartered SalesLoft, the sales engagement platform, has closed a $50 million Series C funding round led by Insight Venture Partners, with participation from LinkedIn and existing investor Emergence Capital. This brings the company, which last year was ranked the seventh fastest-growing technology company in North America by Deloitte, up to

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Goldman Sachs Stakes A Claim In Atlanta's Startup Scene With $1.5M In Engage Fund

Global financial firm Goldman Sachs has joined as the newest partner in Atlanta’s Engage, the venture capital fund that serves as the largest group of corporate investors in one fund. This makes 11 companies, along with state-funded institutional investor Invest Georgia, that have contributed a total of $18 million