DIG SOUTH – The South's Tech Hub

Asheville, Atlanta, Austin, Business Growth, Charleston, Charlotte, Culture, DIG NATION Member Posts, Digital Marketing, Emerging Tech, News, South Pod, Startups, The South, Venture Capital

Liger Partners on SOUTH POD, Register for DIG CAFÉ launch, BetterCloud Raises $75M, MemberHub^Featured

May 27, 2020

Hey, DIG NATION, The day has almost arrived. Bring a cup of your favorite morning brew and head on over to the DIG CAFÉ this Thursday at 11AM. Ease drop with intention as Jon Yarian and I meet with Thomas Rubenak, Senior…

by Stanfield Gray

Asheville, Atlanta, Austin, Business Growth, Charleston, Digital Marketing, Emerging Tech, Greenville, New Orleans, News, Raleigh - Durham, South Pod, Startups, The South, Venture Capital

Oracle for Startups on SOUTH POD, Get Spiffy Gets Creative + We’re back with Wild Pitch Wednesday at 11am featuring Ryan Heafy of 6AM City^Featured

May 18, 2020

Hey, DIG NATION, We’re back with Wild Pitch Wednesday TOMORROW at 11am featuring Ryan Heafy of 6AM City. 6AM is an audience development company in the local media space. As Ryan likes to say, “While our competitors are focused on…

by Stanfield Gray

Asheville, Business Growth, Emerging Tech, Press Releases, The South

Venture Asheville Raises $25,000 to Launch 5 Startups with Asheville Impact Micro Grant Fund^Featured

May 18, 2020

Venture Asheville, the entrepreneurship initiative of the Economic Development Coalition for Asheville-Buncombe County and Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce, announced that $25,000 has been raised in support of the Asheville Impact Micro Grant. Now in its second year, the Asheville…

by DIG SOUTH Editors

Business Growth, Charleston, Culture, DC, DIG NATION Member Posts, Digital Marketing, Emerging Tech, Greenville, Nashville, Newport News, News, Raleigh - Durham, Tampa Bay, The South

6AM City on Wild Pitch Wednesday, Strategic Sales Software, “The Biebs” & IP & Patent Attorney Duncan Byers on South Pod^Featured

May 14, 2020

Hey, DIG NATION, We’re back with Wild Pitch Wednesday next week at 11am featuring Ryan Heafy of 6AM City. 6AM is an audience development company in the local media space. As Ryan likes to say, “While our competitors are focused…

by Stanfield Gray

DIG NATION Member Posts, Startups, Venture Capital

5 Ways Startups Can Make it Through Periods of Uncertainty^Featured

May 14, 2020

By: Nik Adhia, Senior Director Global Operations, Oracle for Startups Founders and employees alike have been on edge given uncertain economic conditions, so let’s just get right into a few ways startups can think about running leaner. Distinguish between needs…

by DIG SOUTH Editors

Atlanta, Austin, Business Growth, Charlotte, Culture, DC, DIG NATION Member Posts, Digital Marketing, Emerging Tech, News, Raleigh - Durham, South Pod, Startups, The South

Telemedicine Thrives, Launch of DIG CAFÉ, Austin’s Swivel, Q.ai, Raleigh’s Red Hat, DC’s BurnAlong + “The Biebs” & IP & Patent Attorney Duncan Byers on South Pod^Featured

May 12, 2020

Hey, DIG NATION, Who says we can’t still gather and shoot the proverbial breeze? Get ready for DIG CAFÉ: Coffee Talk with Executives, Entrepreneurs & Experts. It’s new, fresh brewed, and casual just like your favorite neighborhood coffee shop. The…

by Stanfield Gray

Asheville, Atlanta, Austin, Business Growth, Culture, DC, DIG NATION Member Posts, Digital Marketing, Emerging Tech, News, Raleigh - Durham, South Pod, Startups, The South

GoTab’s Mobile Restaurant Transactions, Uber in ATX, Windlift in Morrisville, PRA Health Sciences in RAL, SingleOps in ATL + Jon Jones on SOUTH POD^Featured

May 5, 2020

Notes from the Gar-office Neuroplasticity: The brain’s ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections throughout life. Neuroplasticity allows the neurons (nerve cells) in the brain to compensate for injury and disease and to adjust their activities in response…

by Stanfield Gray

Atlanta, Business Growth, Charleston, Charlotte, Culture, DIG NATION Member Posts, Digital Marketing, Emerging Tech, Greenville, News, Raleigh - Durham, Tampa Bay, The South

Venture Carolina Lunch & Learn, Castellucci, Reveal Mobile, VUGO, AvidXchange, $8000 in Free Marketing Credits + Home Lending Pal on Wild Pitch Wednesday^Featured

May 1, 2020

In this moment an explosion of creativity is happening all around us. Call it nature’s pressure test. And it’s baked into the DNA of disruption, the source-code of evolution. What are you working on … a revolutionary, more sustainable fuel?…

by Stanfield Gray

Atlanta, Business Growth, Charleston, Columbia, Culture, DIG NATION Member Posts, Digital Marketing, Emerging Tech, News, Press Releases, Raleigh - Durham, Startups, Venture Capital, Wilmington

Investors Pour Money Into Next Glass, K4Connect, SC Dept of Unemployment Chat Bot, BestFit, CureMint, + Interloop on Wild Pitch Wednesday!^Featured

April 27, 2020

NOTES FROM THE GAROFFICE Ready for the rebound? Good. Then buckle up. This week we’re sharing more joyful news – Next Glass is more than half full as the Wilmington, NC-based company raised an undisclosed round from Providence Strategic Growth. We…

by Stanfield Gray

Business Growth, Charleston, Charlotte, Columbia, Culture, DC, DIG NATION Member Posts, Digital Marketing, Emerging Tech, Raleigh - Durham, Richmond, Tampa Bay, The South

Ready for the Rebound: Read About Blockchain and Immunization Passports, Climate Service, Cloosiv, Aledade, GuestBox and Interloop on Wild Pitch!^Featured

April 23, 2020

Garage … Office … Garoffice. There. I’ve coined it and that’s where I’m writing to you from, DIG NATION. So our world is upside down and we need to consider every angle on every possible solution to stop this descent into…

by DIG SOUTH Editors

Business Growth, DIG NATION Member Posts, News, Press Releases, The South

Of Note Releases Podcast Mini-Series: “Power of Vulnerability”^Featured

April 20, 2020

In a special mini-series from “Of Note”, appropriately dubbed “The Power of Vulnerability,” season one innovators are asked how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting their personal, professional, and business lives. Listeners will learn how these South Carolina leaders are staying…

by Tia Nelson

Charleston, News, Press Releases

ROK Technologies Announces COVID-19 Emergency Cloud Relief to Enable Remote GIS Workforces^Featured

April 20, 2020

ROK Technologies, the premier global provider of GIS Managed Cloud Services, announced their Emergency Cloud Relief Solution to help GIS organizations thrown into crisis mode in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. With this solution, organizations can quickly launch applications…

by DIG SOUTH Editors

Business Growth, Emerging Tech, Press Release

ZVerse Plans to Produce 20 Million Face Shields^Featured

April 20, 2020

A 20-person digital manufacturing company has overhauled its business model to become one of the largest producers of reusable face shields in the U.S. ZVerse is currently producing about 100,000 shields per day. ZVerse Founder and CEO John Carrington projects the…

by DIG SOUTH Editors

Atlanta, Business Growth, Charleston, Culture, DIG NATION Member Posts, Digital Marketing, Emerging Tech, Fayetteville, News, Raleigh - Durham, Startups, Tampa Bay, The South

Regulr Guests on Wild Pitch Wed, Airstream Startup Pivots to First Responders, Atlatl, LocatorX, Powerhome, AcreTrader, Oracle Webinar^Featured

April 16, 2020

Healthcare practitioners are being encouraged, if they can, not to stay under the same roof as their families. Family medicine physician Eric Berryman is working shifts in Ocala emergency rooms and commuting back to the bay area. Two years ago,…

by Stanfield Gray

DIG NATION Member Posts, News, Venture Capital

What You Should Know Before Pitching VCs in Virtual Times^Featured

April 16, 2020

Author: JD Weinstein, Oracle for Startups – North America What do Airbnb, Uber, Slack, Pinterest, WhatsApp, Square, and Venmo have in common? These highly successful technology startups were all founded during the Great Recession in 2008-2010. Entrepreneurs and small businesses…

by DIG SOUTH Editors

Austin, Business Growth, Charleston, Culture, DIG NATION Member Posts, Emerging Tech, Nashville, News, Raleigh - Durham, Resources, Startups, The South, Venture Capital

Wild Pitch Wed, Blackbaud Announces COVID Support, Groups360 in NSV, Airbrake in ATX, Teamworks in DRH, EternaTear in RAL^Featured

April 13, 2020

Blackbaud Announces New Measures to Support Customers and Global Community in Response to Pandemic DIG SOUTH Tech Summit sponsor Blackbaud is seeing the needs and impact of COVID-19 manifest in many ways for its customers depending on the organization type….

by Stanfield Gray

Atlanta, Austin, Business Growth, Chapel Hill, Culture, DIG NATION Member Posts, Emerging Tech, News, Raleigh - Durham, South Pod, The South

AlertMedia Raises $15M, NextPlay in Durham, CallRail in ATL, Bandwidth in Raleigh, TrueBridge in Chapel Hill + Stage 2 Capital on SOUTH POD^Featured

April 8, 2020

To state the obvious, the world is much more complicated than it was a month ago. Austin-based emergency communications startup AlertMedia sees itself as a critical component to helping businesses keep their employees safe and informed. The company announced it has…

by Stanfield Gray

Atlanta, Business Growth, Charleston, Culture, DC, DIG NATION Member Posts, Emerging Tech, News, Raleigh - Durham, South Pod, The South

OurStreets Crowdsources Supplies, WeWork, Liger, Pendo, BioMedomis, Stage2Capital on SOUTH POD, King + Columbus Crisis Webinar^Featured

April 6, 2020

OurStreets, a D.C.-born app that crowdsources road safety and micromobility complaints, has launched a new feature aimed at curbing grocery store panic shopping amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis. OurStreets lets users report which grocery and convenience stores are stocked with…

by Stanfield Gray

Brevard, Business Growth, Chapel Hill, Culture, DIG NATION Member Posts, Digital Marketing, Emerging Tech, Nashville, News, Raleigh - Durham, South Pod, Startups, The South

RioT Announces MISSION-R, LaunchTN in NASH, Plant Health Care in RAL, CData Software in Chapel Hill, Earth Renewable Technology in Brevard^Featured

April 1, 2020

RioT Announces MISSION-R: RIoT’s Moonshot Goal Response to COVID-19 Raleigh, NC-based non-profit accelerator, lab and startup ecosystem supporter RIoT is launching MISSION-R on April 2 at 1pm EST via webinar. RIoT will host experts in the medtech and economic development space to share…

by Stanfield Gray

Business Growth, Culture, DC, DIG NATION Member Posts, Digital Marketing, Emerging Tech, News, Raleigh - Durham, The South, Winston-Salem

Overline Announces $17.5M, Aperiomics, Neighbor, Validic, TeleHealth, & Theorem on SOUTH POD^Featured

March 25, 2020

New Atlanta-Based VC Fund Overline Announces Closing $17.5M of $25M Fund, Wants To Propel Startups To Success With coronavirus news currently roiling financial markets, some might guess that recently launched venture capital funds would hold off on whatever they were planning…

by Stanfield Gray

Austin, Business Growth, Charlotte, Culture, DIG NATION Member Posts, Emerging Tech, News, Raleigh - Durham, South Pod, Startups

Everlywell’s Race to Launch Covid-19 Test, Calendly Offers Free Zoom and GoToMeeting, SkillPop, Vertical IQ, Gopher Go, & Crowdsourcing DIG NATION^Featured

March 23, 2020

Calendly to Offer Free Zoom and GoToMeeting Integrations Through June to Help Remote Workers As the tech community continues to reel from the effects of social distancing due to the coronavirus pandemic, Atlanta-based meeting scheduling software company Calendly will offer…

by Stanfield Gray

Atlanta, Austin, Business Growth, Culture, DIG NATION Member Posts, Digital Marketing, Emerging Tech, Nashville, Raleigh - Durham, Startups, The South

DIG SOUTH in July, The Q, Case Status Raises $1.5M, Pendo, Bakkt, CloudOne, Favor^Featured

March 19, 2020

Birmingham-based LegalTech Startup Case Status Lands Second Round from BIP Capital Case Status, a client relationship management and marketing platform for law firms, announced it has received Series Seed II investment funding of $1.5 million from venture investment firm BIP Capital. The…

by Stanfield Gray

Atlanta, Business Growth, Charleston, Culture, DIG NATION Member Posts, Digital Marketing, Emerging Tech, Raleigh - Durham, The South

DIG SOUTH Rescheduled, Overhaul Hauls in $17.5M, RTP’s Get Spiffy, Raleigh’s Corevisit, Charleston’s Deal Alliance, ATL’s Endeavor^Featured

March 16, 2020

Overhaul Group Inc. nabbed a $17.5 million funding round led by New Jersey-based investment firm Edison Partners, the cargo-shipping software company announced. Existing investor Abbey International Finance Group in Dublin, Ireland, also participated. Broadly, the company plans to use the…

by Stanfield Gray

DIG NATION Member Posts, News

DIG SOUTH Rescheduled for July 22-24 Due to COVID-19^Featured

March 6, 2020

Due to the rapid spread of COVID-19 and recommendations by public health officials to increase social distancing now and in the immediate future, DIG SOUTH Tech Media is rescheduling DIG SOUTH Tech Summit for this summer, July 22-24, at the…

by Stanfield Gray

Atlanta, Austin, Business Growth, Charleston, Culture, DIG NATION Member Posts, Emerging Tech, Nashville, South Pod, Startups, Tampa Bay, Venture Capital

Blinktbi of Charleston Pinpoints Concussions, Tampa’s Molekule, ATL’s BoxLock, Blueprint Title in NSV, Austin’s Eventus Systems, Venture Atlanta on South Pod^Featured

March 2, 2020

A startup that grew out of research at the Medical University of South Carolina and The Citadel has hit the market and closed on a new round of funding. Blinktbi Inc.’s technology is now being sold to schools and athletic…

by Stanfield Gray

Atlanta, Austin, Business Growth, Culture, DIG NATION Member Posts, Digital Marketing, Emerging Tech, Nashville, Raleigh - Durham, South Pod, Startups, The South, Venture Capital, Wilmington

BeerAdvocate Purchased by Untappd, ATL’s Create-X, Visualize Health in NSV, Durham’s Sift Media, Self Financial of Austin, and Theorem on South Pod^Featured

February 27, 2020

Despite its explosion in popularity, craft beer is still a relatively small and tight-knit community. A generation ago when the number of breweries was a fraction of what it is today, the community was even smaller and more tight-knit. But even…

by Stanfield Gray

Atlanta, Austin, Business Growth, Charlotte, DC, DIG NATION Member Posts, Digital Marketing, Emerging Tech, News, Raleigh - Durham, Tampa Bay

ToucanAI Raises Capital, Launches on Shopify Platform, CLT’s Source Technologies, Austin’s Verify, COAST of Tampa Bay, Great Dwellings of DC^Featured

February 24, 2020

Atlanta-based Toucan AI – started by North Carolina natives and Duke grads Arjun Devarajan and Vishnu Menon – has raised an undisclosed sum from MTT Ventures, Silicon Road, Seraph Group and a syndicate of angel investors. Toucan AI said it will use the…

by Stanfield Gray

Atlanta, Business Growth, Culture, DC, DIG NATION Member Posts, Digital Marketing, Emerging Tech, News, Raleigh - Durham, South Pod, Startups, Summit Speaker, The South, Venture Capital

Austin’s Digital Turbine Acquires Mobile Posse for $66M, Terminus (ATL), CompostNow (RAL), Enveil (DC), Durham’s Aerie, Fattmerchant on South Pod^Featured

February 19, 2020

Austin-based mobile apps and ads platform company Digital Turbine announced it has scooped up mobile ad platform Mobile Posse for near $66 million. “The strategic rationale for the acquisition is very strong,” Mobile Posse CEO Jon Jackson said in a statement. “We…

by Stanfield Gray

Atlanta, Business Growth, Culture, DIG NATION Member Posts, Emerging Tech, Morehead, Raleigh - Durham, Startups, The South, Venture Capital

Palmetto Clean Pulls in New Financing, AppHarvest of Kentucky, Durham’s Restor3D, ATL’s ARPR, RTP’s TransEnterix, plus Fattmerchant on South Pod^Featured

February 17, 2020

One of Charleston’s most mature startup companies closed another round of funding in early 2020 and marked its 10-year anniversary. Palmetto Clean Technology Inc. is one of the biggest tenants at the upper peninsula’s Pacific Box & Crate development. Last…

by Stanfield Gray

Atlanta, Business Growth, Culture, DIG NATION Member Posts, Houston, News, Summit Speaker, The South

DIG NATION | New Member Spotlight: FK Funderburke, VP, Theorem^Featured

February 11, 2020

From whiteboarding new concepts to long-term support, Theorem works with startups and large multi-national enterprises to develop new applications, software, services and platforms. Visit theorem.com to catch a glimpse into how they build, including their processes, team capabilities and what they do in each…

by Stanfield Gray

Atlanta, Austin, Business Growth, Charleston, Culture, DIG NATION Member Posts, Digital Marketing, Emerging Tech, Houston, Nashville, News, Raleigh - Durham, Startups, Summit Speaker, The South

DIG NATION Member Theorem Q&A, ATL’s The Beans, Venture X in Raleigh, NSV’s Capital Confirmations, Austin’s Upland Software + new South Pod^Featured

February 11, 2020

From whiteboarding new concepts to long-term support, Theorem works with startups and large multi-national enterprises to develop new applications, software, services and platforms. Visit theorem.com to catch a glimpse into how they build, including their processes, team capabilities and what they do in each…

by Stanfield Gray

Atlanta, Business Growth, DIG NATION Member Posts, Digital Marketing, Emerging Tech, Nashville, New Orleans, News, Raleigh - Durham, Tampa Bay

Policygenius Raises $100M to Ramp up Durham, Nola’s Advano, Lienwavers.io from NSV, Peerit of Tampa Bay and ATL’s WeWork Labs^Featured

February 3, 2020

“Join Durham’s fastest growing startup,” reads the billboard along 15-501 in big, bold red font. Ever since Policygenius, an insuretech startup based out of New York, announced plans late last year to expand into the Bull City – ultimately bringing 370…

by Stanfield Gray

News

Startup Atlanta Celebrates Winners at Annual Startup Awards^Featured

January 30, 2020

Startup Atlanta, the premier advocate for Atlanta’s vibrant startup ecosystem, recognized the city’s most successful startup entrepreneurs and leaders Thursday night at its third annual Atlanta Startup Awards. The event took place on the historic campus of Clark Atlanta University…

by Stanfield Gray

Atlanta, Austin, Business Growth, Charleston, Columbia, Culture, DIG NATION Member Posts, Digital Marketing, Emerging Tech, Greenville, Nashville, News, Raleigh - Durham, South Pod

Scribble Toolkit for Innovation, K4Connect (RAL), Solomon + Google for Startups (ATL), Blueprint (NSV), Locale (ATX) + Brian Gillespie on South Pod^Featured

January 29, 2020

The S.C. Department of Commerce invites you to Toolkit Talk, a three-day series of events celebrating innovative leaders as featured on Scribble, South Carolina’s content toolkit for the pursuit of innovation. The events are free to the public, but space…

by Stanfield Gray

Atlanta, Austin, Business Growth, Charleston, Culture, DIG NATION Member Posts, Emerging Tech, News, Press Release, Raleigh - Durham, Startups, Wilmington

Atlanta’s Fanaticus XR Uses VR and Projection Mapping, Vapor IO in ATX, Sysdig in RAL, Shawn Jenkins in Charleston, CloudWyze in Wilmington, Gillespie on South Pod^Featured

January 27, 2020

Atlanta-based VR company Fanaticus XR is built upon fandom, not just technology. Fanaticus XR’s first experience is the Flying Broom VR Simulator, which co-founder Ernesto Escobar says can transport users “anywhere” at a high degree of immersion. “You can give…

by Stanfield Gray

Asheville, Atlanta, Austin, Business Growth, Charlotte, Culture, DC, DIG NATION Member Posts, Digital Marketing, Emerging Tech, Greenville, News, South Pod, Startups, The South, Venture Capital

Comcast NBCU Launches Atlanta-Based SportsTech Accelerator, FlashParking, WhyHotel, Florida Funders, SouthPod featuring Comcast VP Horwitz^Featured

January 20, 2020

Comcast NBCU announced the launch of SportsTech, a three-month global accelerator for multi-stage sports technology startups that will be based in Atlanta. The accelerator features what Comcast NBCU calls an “unprecedented partnership” between three of the broadcast giant’s sports brands…

by Stanfield Gray

Atlanta, Business Growth, Charleston, Charlotte, Culture, DIG NATION Member Posts, Digital Marketing, Emerging Tech, News, Raleigh - Durham, South Pod, The South

Raleigh-based MobileSmith Lands App Partnership with AT&T + AvidXchange (CLT), Sense Photonics (DUR), TOTO/GR PRO (ATL), Blackbaud (CHS)^Featured

January 13, 2020

MobileSmith, a developer of apps aiming to improve healthcare, is getting a chance to grow nationally through a partnership with AT&T. The companies announced they would include MobileSmith’s health platform known as Peri as part of AT&T’s Edge-to-Edge Digital Hospital…

by Stanfield Gray

Charleston, Columbia, Greenville, News, Press Releases, Resources, South Pod, Startups, The South, Venture Capital

S.C. Department of Commerce Office of Innovation to Launch Scribble Event Series^Featured

January 8, 2020

COLUMBIA, S.C. – The South Carolina Department of Commerce’s Office of Innovation announced the launch of the Toolkit Talk series celebrating innovators across S.C. The interactive three-day series, which is part of the Scribble online resource, provides opportunities for idea…

by Stanfield Gray

Atlanta, Austin, Business Growth, Culture, DC, DIG NATION Member Posts, Digital Marketing, Emerging Tech, News, Raleigh - Durham, South Pod, Startups, The South, Venture Capital

Levelset Lands $30M, Arjun Devarajan on SOUTH POD + Tech Jobs (ATL), Sense Photonics (Durham), Shipwell (ATX), Arcadia (DC)^Featured

January 6, 2020

New Orleans Startup Levelset Lands $30M Series C Funding Round to Jumpstart Growth Levelset, a New Orleans-based SaaS platform that helps relieve cash flow issues for contractors by getting them paid more quickly, has announced a $30 million Series C…

by Stanfield Gray

Atlanta, Austin, Business Growth, Charlotte, Culture, DIG NATION Member Posts, Nashville, News, Raleigh - Durham, South Pod, The South

Terminus Acquires Sigstr, Civic Dinners on South Pod + Tribecan (Wilmington), Cloud Guru (ATX), Record Job (CLT), Octerra (NVL), Microsoft (Morrisville)^Featured

December 19, 2019

Account-based marketing platform Terminus has acquired Sigstr, the email signature marketing platform that turns the billions of 1:1 employee emails sent every year into powerful brand engagements. The addition of Sigstr creates an end-to-end account-centric marketing platform with the most…

by Stanfield Gray

News, South Pod

Tech in the South: ATL’s Alex Gonzalez on South Pod + PrecisionHawk (RAL-DUR) + Good Growth (CHS), Passport (CLT), XSOLIS (NSV), Popspots (Austin)^Featured

December 12, 2019

PrecisionHawk, a Raleigh Trianlge-based drone technology company, has raised a $32 million investment from venture investors including Millennium Technology Value Partners, Third Point Ventures, Eastward Capital Partners, and others. The round brings PrecisionHawk’s financing so far to more than $100…

by Stanfield Gray

Atlanta, Austin, Business Growth, Charleston, DIG NATION Member Posts, Digital Marketing, Emerging Tech, News, Raleigh - Durham, South Pod, The South

Call for Startups to Join DIG SOUTH Wild Pitch Open + Pensa (Austin), Motivo (ATL), Allstacks (RAL), CloudFactory (DUR)^Featured

December 4, 2019

Hitting the fundraising trail in 2020? Your best opportunity may be at the South’s Capitol of Capital on April 24. The call for startups to join Wild Pitch at DIG SOUTH Tech Summit in Charleston is now open! Connect with more than 200…

by Stanfield Gray

Asheville, Atlanta, Business Growth, Charleston, DIG NATION Member Posts, Digital Marketing, Emerging Tech, Greenville, Nashville, News, Raleigh - Durham, South Pod

Tech in the South: Meetup w/ Former Head of Uber Biz Dev, Nashville Startup Predicts Personalities + Climate Service (AVL), CloudFactory (Durham), Popmenu (ATL), Base (GVL)^Featured

December 2, 2019

Jonathan DiOrio is a big deal. And we’re hosting him this Thursday at Blue Ion in Charleston. It’s our last DIG NATION Executive Member event of 2019 – you should be there too. Learn to scale a company like mad, join a live taping…

by Stanfield Gray

Business Growth, Culture, DIG NATION Member Posts, Emerging Tech, News, Press Release, The South

Tech in the South: Gotcha (CHS) Acquired by OjO (CA) + Champ Bailey, Spreedly (Durham), Givful (Nashville), Popmenu (ATL), BrewBike (Austin)^Featured

November 25, 2019

Charleston firm Gotcha, who has staked its ground on partnering with colleges and cities to rent electric bikes and scooters, says it is being acquired by Oxnard, Calif.-based ride-sharing company OjO Electric in a deal valued at $12 million, including stock….

by Stanfield Gray

Atlanta, Business Growth, Charleston, Culture, DIG NATION Member Posts, Digital Marketing, Emerging Tech, Memphis, News, Raleigh - Durham, The South

Tech in the South: eSports Giant Epic Games (Durham) Acquires Quixel to Increase 3D Realism + Benefitfocus (CHS), Spiffy (RAL-DUR), Transitiv (ATL), DEVCON (Memphis)^Featured

November 14, 2019

North Carolina-based eSports behemoth Epic Games, best known for its wildly popular game Fortnite as well as the global game development platform Unreal Engine, has announced its acquisition of the Swedish startup Quixel. The move is designed to improve the three-dimensional photorealism of…

by Stanfield Gray

Business Growth, DC, News, Press Releases

Accelerate R2 Network Challenge^Featured

October 31, 2019

(WASHINGTON, DC) Three U.S. Department of Commerce agencies have launched a first-of-its-kind interagency challenge focused on accelerating innovations for disaster response and resilience technology. The Economic Development Administration (EDA), in collaboration with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the First Responder Network…

by Stanfield Gray

Atlanta, Austin, Business Growth, Charleston, Culture, DIG NATION Member Posts, Digital Marketing, Emerging Tech, Greenville, News, Raleigh - Durham, Tampa Bay, The South, Winston-Salem

Oracle for Startups on SOUTH POD, Everlywell Secures FDA Approval + tech news across the South

May 21, 2020

Hey, DIG NATION, Miss your old neighborhood coffee shop? And wish you could meet that executive, entrepreneur or expert there who could share a little advice? Well, we do too! And DIG CAFÉ is the next best thing. Drop in…

by Stanfield Gray

Asheville, Atlanta, DIG NATION Member Posts, Press Release, Press Releases

Brian Alwine Joins Redwood Valuation

May 1, 2020

Brian M. Alwine, CPA, ASA joined Redwood Valuation as a Director in early 2020. Alwine brings 20 years of business valuation experience to Redwood, having worked with hundreds of clients across the USA. His projects have ranged from valuing entrepreneurial…

by DIG SOUTH Editors