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Get To Know The CEO of Georgia-based Camping Tools

Get To Know The CEO of Georgia-based Camping Tools

Robert McMillan had been sitting on the domain camping.tools for years. Around 2015 .tools became publicly available and McMillan, an IT consultant, entrepreneur, and Georgia resident, bought the camping one without much thought about what it might be used for. After decades building his consulting career and several businesses,

Trade Mission At Venture Atlanta Highlights Opportunities Between Atlanta & UK's Tech Ecosystems

Trade Mission At Venture Atlanta Highlights Opportunities Between Atlanta & UK's Tech Ecosystems

A global Robotics company headquartered in Newcastle Upon Tyne. A hardware manufacturing shop out of Liverpool. A software startup based in Manchester. That might not sound like the traditional list of startups you’d meet while attending Atlanta’s largest venture capital conference. But last week those companies, and other

Following acquisition, This Tampa Founder Is Ready to Help Restaurants Combat Rising Food Costs With New Startup

Following acquisition, This Tampa Founder Is Ready to Help Restaurants Combat Rising Food Costs With New Startup

Building any type of business is hard. But keeping a restaurant afloat can be particularly grueling. 20 percent of restaurants close within a year and 60 percent shutter within five years, according to the U Bureau of Labor Statistics. On top of that, the average full-service restaurant carried $51,863

Atlanta-based Salesloft names new chief financial officer to lead AI-driven company

Atlanta-based Salesloft names new chief financial officer to lead AI-driven company

One of Atlanta’s most successful SaaS ventures has named a new CFO. Salesloft, the sales automation platform founded in 2011 by David Cummings, Kyle Porter, Rob Forman, and Tim Dorr, recently announced that Christopher Nagy is joining the team as its chief financial officer. Nagy brings over twenty-five years

Students are still dealing with the long-term impacts of COVID. Atlanta startup QuestRead wants to help.

Students are still dealing with the long-term impacts of COVID. Atlanta startup QuestRead wants to help.

Janessa Ferrell, Co-founder and CEO of QuestRead, left her career as a school teacher in 2019 to solve the reading proficiency gap. While she was working on solving this problem, the world halted. The pandemic had a large impact on education and new research from Education Recovery Scorecard found that

Forget Remote-First. This SaaS Startup Defines Its Hiring Strategy as Metro Atlanta-First

Forget Remote-First. This SaaS Startup Defines Its Hiring Strategy as Metro Atlanta-First

In general, the SaaS world has struggled over the last year and a half. 2023 was another down year for venture capital going into enterprise software, with the value of those transactions slipping 33% last year, according to data collected by PitchBook. And the outlook hasn’t been much better

Atlanta-based growth equity firm Vocap Partners names new General Partner

Atlanta-based growth equity firm Vocap Partners names new General Partner

Atlanta-based venture capital firm Vocap Partners has appointed a new General Partner. Emery Waddell, who has been with Vocap since 2015, was promoted to General Partner this week after serving as the firm’s Principal. Vocap is an early growth equity firm that works with post-product market fit companies in