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More Indie Games Are On The Horizon As Huntsville Startup Freedom Games Raises $10M Seed Round

More Indie Games Are On The Horizon As Huntsville Startup Freedom Games Raises $10M Seed Round

Just 18 months since its founding, Freedom Games has big plans for the indie video game market. The Alabama startup just raised its first round of outside capital, a $10 million seed round led by Singapore-based gaming VC firm Play Ventures. Nashville Capital Network and San Francisco-based GFR Fund also

Behind The Acquisition: Charlotte-based ThreatSwitch Sees Acquisition As Growth Opportunity

Behind The Acquisition: Charlotte-based ThreatSwitch Sees Acquisition As Growth Opportunity

Charlotte-based ThreatSwitch is taking the acquisition route as it looks to grow its Charlotte-based team. The security compliance startup announced this week it was acquired by Sign In Solutions, a visitor management and risk mitigation software. Sign In’s US headquarters is in St. Petersburg, and it is a portfolio

Learning With Lingo Plaza, An Atlanta-based Platform For Bilingual Kids

Learning With Lingo Plaza, An Atlanta-based Platform For Bilingual Kids

Born and raised in Colombia, Lily Hagen said she struggled trying to raise her kids in a bilingual household in the United States. “I thought it was going to be a breeze to teach my kids Spanish, but it was not. It was super, super hard,” she told Hypepotamus. “But

It's Go Time For Ecommerce Brands. Saltbox Is Expanding To Help More Small Businesses.

It's Go Time For Ecommerce Brands. Saltbox Is Expanding To Help More Small Businesses.

Brea Fullerton jokes that she’s been playing Monopoly within the walls of Saltbox. She originally moved her small business, a consumer brand company called Shinery, into a 120 square foot space inside of the hybrid warehouse and office environment first piloted in Atlanta’s Westside in 2021. But soon

Georgia Startups Have A New Type of HealthTech Partner

Georgia Startups Have A New Type of HealthTech Partner

HealthTech and MedTech startups have a new place to pitch following the launch of Northeast Georgia Health Ventures (NGHV). Born out of the four-hospital health system spread across the state of Georgia which houses over 1,2000 providers, NGHV looks to be a unique additional resource to entrepreneurs looking to

Nashville Startup Looks To Spin Up New Opportunities For Publishers

Nashville Startup Looks To Spin Up New Opportunities For Publishers

From its home in Music City, Spiny wants to give the publishing space a modern makeover. The startup’s founding team – Nana B. Nyantekyi, Shannon Terry, and Andrew Johnson – include titans in the digital publishing world, having been part of building up comicbook.com, the online college football network Rivals,

CerFlux Is Looking To Crush Cancer From Its HQ In Birmingham

CerFlux Is Looking To Crush Cancer From Its HQ In Birmingham

Karim Budhwani was so passionate about crushing cancer, he went back and got his PhD on the subject. At the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Budhwani focused on disease modeling and cancer therapeutic discovery, ultimately graduated with a PhD in Material Science and Engineering in 2018. Instead of turning