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North Carolina has landed a new international VC. SixThirty, a St. Louis-based firm with roots in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Amsterdam, announced it is opening up operations in the Research Triangle area and is tapping a local investor to do just that. Joe Darcy, who received his MBA from UNC,
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Natalie Waggett’s entrepreneurial story is one of passion and joy and grief. And it is ultimately the story of what good can come when you sit down and enjoy a good beer with someone. Waggett spent her professional career in banking and consulting before finding her passion for bringing
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After earning an Apparel Merchandising degree from Louisiana State University, Anastasia Simon said she envisioned her career path might play out something like The Devil Wears Prada. But she hit an entrepreneurial streak and started designing her own path within the tech ecosystem. Simon graduated during the last recession and
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Tampa’s startup community caught the attention of long-time investor Scott Kelly, so much so that he’s decided to relocate his VC firm and business development accelerator Black Dog Venture Partners from Arizona to the city. Black Dog provides venture capital consulting, corporate finance, and business development services for
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What constitutes a pre-seed company these days? By definition, these companies have shown identified a market opportunity and are seeking outside investment to build and gain customers. You’d expect they might go to an early-stage VC, an angel network, or even a specialized accelerator to pitch their vision. But
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We met up with Tamara Lucas, co-founder of My Panda, to learn about the community-based personal assistant app helping women get through their to-do lists with less stress. Lucas came up with the platform based on her own experience and time management struggles at home. From tasks as simple as
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Since cryptocurrency emerged on the scene in 2008, veteran investors and miners have navigated their fair share of ups and downs in the market. But the latest downturn feels a bit different, mostly because crypto has become more mainstream. Many casual investors were introduced to the space through NFTs (non-fungible
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Steph Tulley sees her age as a strength as she takes on the InsurTech space. She went from a receptionist at a small insurance company to owning her own insurance brokerage firm in just eight years. As her career developed throughout her early twenties, Tulley saw that the insurance space
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Early in the pandemic, Paul Owusu was one of many people who leaned into at-home cocktail making. But he turned that passion into a full-blown business…and it is making quite the splash in the canned cocktail world. Owusu recently moved to Atlanta to be closer to his co-founders and
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From creating an immersive cinema in a New York living room to raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to film a unique, self-designed project rejected by agencies, Emily Best has built an impressive film career in her own right. But like many filmmakers, she ran into problems raising the necessary
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When a city’s mayor shows up at a work conference, you know there is something special going on. Mayor Andre Dickens — along with an impressive “who’s who” list of Atlantans in tech, music, arts, and business — took part in the Render(ATL) conference this year. This has quickly
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ATDC has felt like home to Alex Rhodeen for some time now. After moving to Atlanta in 2013, he found his way to the startup incubator in Midtown as he helped build up the last-mile logistics startup Kanga as its chief operating officer. Now in 2022, Rhodeen is returning to