Author: Stanfield Gray
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SOUTH POD Returns with Amazon, Vivo Connects Seniors, Gates Foundation Invests in RTP’s AgBiome
South Pod Returns with Amazon Tech Leader Mark your calendars for next Thursday, Jan. 28 at 8PM on the DIG SOUTH Facebook page as we resume SOUTH POD featuring Amazon Director Brice Brewer. Brewer leads Amazon Nashville as one of the company’s Directors within Worldwide Operations Technology. An experienced leader with more than 20 years…
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Women-led Cleantech Powering Our Water, Bumble Goes Public, SOUTH POD Rewind with Social Flow
Women Owned Cleantech A women-led cleantech startup is getting ready to pilot its “game-changing” water purification technology after landing $700,000 in funding. NALA Systems, headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, says it has developed new reverse-osmosis membranes that could cut the cost of water desalination by up to 40%. This week, the startup announced plans to…
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Proterra Going Public, Roadie helps Roadies, Liger Partners Recognized Nationally
VentureSouth Portfolio Company Proterra To Go Public VentureSouth is pleased to announce that its portfolio company Proterra, a leading commercial electric vehicle technology company with manufacturing operations in South Carolina, will become publicly listed through a merger with special purpose acquisition company ArcLight Clean Transition Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTC). VentureSouth first invested in Proterra in 2011…
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RIoT Starts 2021 Off With Competitive Edge
RIoT is excited to provide a venue for experts to deeply engage on the intersection of 5G and Edge Computing. Competitive Edge: How Edge Computing Takes Business to the Next Level explores industry innovations that are unlocked by these new technologies. Speakers lay the groundwork for understanding this slice of the technological and business landscape.…
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Register for Amazon Nashville on DIG CAFÉ, Austin Mints a Unicorn, Using AI for ROI
DIG Café Resumes Tomorrow, Jan. 13 at 11am Featuring Amazon Director Brice Brewer Brewer leads Amazon Nashville as one of the company’s Directors within Worldwide Operations Technology. An experienced leader with more than 20 years of proven success leading engineering, technology and big data initiatives, Brewer counts an additional 7 years in the healthcare industry. ON…
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DIG CAFÉ is Back with Amazon Nashville, Atlanta Breeds a Unicorn, Decoding Legal Topics with Oracle for Startups
Get ready DIG NATION. Mark your calendars for next Wednesday, Jan. 13 at 11AM as we resume with the first DIG Café of the season featuring Amazon Director Brice Brewer. Brewer leads Amazon Nashville as a one of the company’s Directors within Worldwide Operations Technology. An experienced leader with more than 20 years of proven success…
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Peloton Makes an NC Acquisition, NCCHR Launches a Virtual Museum, FinTech Generations Set for June
ORACLE FOR STARTUPS OFFERS MEMBER CLOUD DEAL, MENTORING & MORE Join DIG NATION partner Oracle for Startups with promo code “DIG2021” to unlock up to $5,000 in additional free cloud credits and a 70% discount for 2 years, plus expert mentorship, migration support, technical resources and access to Oracle’s 430,000+ customers. (How to join with promo code) Oracle…
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Durham’s Spoonflower Blooms, Zoom & Google Meet Eliminate Time Restraints, IBM Acquisition, Venture Summit Connect West Discount + Fintech Generations
DURHAM’S SPOONFLOWER BLOOMS TO TRIPLE-DIGIT GROWTH DURING COVID Back in March, Spoonflower, an on-demand, digital printing company, reported 30% year-over-year growth in the first quarter. By most standards, it was poised for a “nice” year going forward, says its CEO Michael Jones. Then the pandemic hit. “We saw a little bit of a slow down for…
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NFL HOFer Champ Bailey Creates Smart Masks, Partnership for Inclusive Innovation Announces $250k Grant, Venture Summit Virtual Connect West Discount
Partnership for Inclusive Innovation Announces First $250,000 Grant for Pilot Program The Partnership for Inclusive Innovation, with the support of Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, has announced its first funded pilot program, theClubhou.se: Mesh Network. This organization aims to empower entrepreneurs and provide resources to create new businesses in traditionally under-resourced communities. The pilot was competitively selected…
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Turn Your Back on Revenue? – on SOUTH POD, Big Tech Hiring + NCIDEA fuels North Carolina
NEW Receives Ecosystem Grant To Start Entrepreneurship Program Network for Entrepreneurs in Wilmington has won a grant from NC IDEA to support a new program for local startups and entrepreneurs. NC IDEA announced the 17 organizations in the state chosen from 65 applicants that are recipients of the NC IDEA ECOSYSTEM grant. “There hasn’t been…
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HBCU Esports Tournament for a Good Cause, OfferUp Breeds Unicorns on SOUTH POD, Active Capital Raises $25M
MetArena, the newly rebranded esports startup, is co-hosting the first ever esports summit with a focus on historically Black colleges and universities. The St. Petersburg-based startup has teamed up with Johnson C. Smith University to bring the first ever esports conference with both a focus on competition and offering career opportunities for would-be gamers. It…
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Decode Legal Topics with Oracle for Startups, A New Way to Create Music for Your Wishlist + OfferUp Breeds Unicorns on SOUTH POD
Hey Startups, Need to Decode Legal Topics? Decoding Legal Topics for Startups at Series A and Beyondwith Oracle for Startups and Lowenstein Sandler LLPDecember 15 at 2 PM ESTREGISTER HERE Copyrights, patents, and trademarks. Dealing with legal questions for your startup? Rohit Jain from Oracle for Startups and Matt Savare from Lowenstein Sandler LLP have you…
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Apply to Pitch at Venture Connect, 2021 Social Media Predictions w/Q3 on SOUTH POD + DIG Member News
APPLY NOW TO PITCH AT VENTURE CONNECT IN NC’s RTP Venture Connect Online is a digital experience that is designed to maximize the visibility of startups and help them build relationships with people (investors, peers, customers, and/or partners) who can help them scale. For 2021, Venture Connect has expanded their offerings to include live interviews…
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Apply Now to Blackbaud’s Social Good Startup Program, Nano Space Tech, Social Predictions for 2021 from Q3 on SOUTH POD
BLACKBAUD SOCIAL GOOD STARTUP PROGRAM SUPPORTS EMERGING COMPANIES TO DRIVE INNOVATION Blackbaud, the world’s leading cloud software company powering social good (and a DIG SOUTH partner), is accepting applications for the Blackbaud Social Good Startup Program, a unique, yearlong endeavor designed to drive innovation outside of the company’s walls that was announced at bbcon 2020. Through…
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Venture135 Set to be the Largest Venture Conference in the Southeast
CHARLOTTE, NC – In its fourth year, Venture135 has shifted to a virtual platform, expanding one of the premier venture conferences to the largest of its kind in the Southeast. “This year we had 100s of applications come in from startups from around the world,” said Dan Roselli, the managing director of RevTech Labs, the…
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How does Darth Vader Like His Turkey? Here’s How to Give Back + Scaling Social Impact
IT’S TIME TO GIVE BACK! WHEREVER YOU ARE TODAY This Thanksgiving might feel or look a little different for you this year, but the DIG team has researched some ways we can all celebrate the spirit of the holiday. Whether you are staying home or ready to serve others, we can all participate. Here’s how. Also,…
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Wild Pitch Wednesday TODAY, Real Time Animation in Fortnite & Warburg Pincus on SOUTH POD
Wild Pitch Wednesday on Zoom – TODAY! Featuring QuatroMoneyWednesday, November, 1811:00 AM ESTREGISTER Unless you’re a soon-to-be freshman or parent of one, most people don’t spend every day thinking about college finance, but QuatroMoney does. Quatromoney is built to help students and families get college cost transparency and calculate the best financing options based on their…
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New DIG NATION Member Amazon is Hiring, QuatroMoney on Wild Pitch, Making Tech Accessible with Fledging & Warburg Pincus on SOUTH POD
How to Pay for College on Wild Pitch Wild Pitch Wednesday on Zoom: Featuring QuatroMoneyWednesday, November, 1811:00 AM ESTREGISTER Unless you’re a soon-to-be freshman or parent of one, most people don’t spend every day thinking about college finance, but QuatroMoney does. Quatromoney is built to help students and families get college cost transparency and calculate…
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New Member Amazon is Hiring, QuatroMoney on Wild Pitch, Gamers Get Plugged In with Shotcall & Oracle for Startups on SOUTH POD
College Finance Planning on Wild Pitch Featuring QuatroMoneyWednesday, November, 1811:00 AM EST | ZoomREGISTER Unless you’re a soon-to-be freshman or parent of one, most people don’t spend every day thinking about college finance, but QuatroMoney does. Quatromoney is built to help students and families get college cost transparency and calculate the best financing options based…
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QuatroMoney on Wild Pitch Next Week, Startups Feed Voters & FloWater on SOUTH POD
WILD PITCH WEDNESDAY ON ZOOMFeaturing QuatroMoneyWednesday, November, 1111:00 AM EST REGISTER NOW Unless you’re a soon-to-be freshman or parent of one, most people don’t spend every day thinking about college finance, but QuatroMoney does. Quatromoney is built to help students and families get college cost transparency and calculate the best financing options based on their…
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Social Media, Politics, and the Election on SOUTH POD + Keeping the Friday Night LightsOn & FloWater
Social Media, Politics, and the Election: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly In case you missed it, the fabulous first DIG NATION Fall Confab last Wednesday featured SocialFlow CEO Jim Anderson. Jim dug into some most peculiar data nuggets and dished a bit on what it tells us about the national election today. Check out the on-demand replay……
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Greater Nashville IT Summit, Fall Confab Rewind, General Chase on South Pod, KnowBe4 Expands to Middle East, VentureSouth Makes the Top 10
Who missed it? In case you were unable to attend the fabulous first DIG NATION Fall Confab last Wednesday featuring SocialFlow CEO Jim Anderson, here’s a rewind … TUNE IN ON FACEBOOK LIVENOVEMBER 02, 8 PM EDTWatch Here Monday Social Media, Politics, and the Election: The Good, the Bad, and the UglyFeaturing SocialFlow CEO Jim Anderson More than half of…
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DIG NATION Fall Confab Jim Anderson – Register Now, A New Way To Fundraise, Dragon Army Invades South Pod Tonight
DIG NATION Fall Confab Next WeekOCTOBER 28, 4 PMFeaturing SocialFlow CEO Jim Anderson Social Media, Politics, and the Election: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly More than half of adults in the U.S. receive news from social media, and that means that social networks play an outsized role in politics. By looking at how media…
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DIG NATION Fall Confab, Wild Pitch Wed with PureSkill.gg, Dragon Army Invades South Pod, Tech in the South News, Gotcha Ride to the Polls?
EXCLUSIVE DIG NATION MEMBER EVENT! DIG NATION FALL CONFABOCTOBER 28, 4 PMFeaturing SocialFlow CEO Jim AndersonREGISTER NOW Social Media, Politics, and the Election: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly More than half of adults in the U.S. receive news from social media, and that means that social networks play an outsized role in politics. By…
