Category: DIG NATION Member Posts
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National PBS Show Featuring Local Startups Airs Tuesday, HR Startup Raises $15M Seed for Intelligent Interviewing Platform + Dolby Vision gaming launches first on Xbox Series X and S
National PBS Show Featuring Local Startups Airs Tuesday WILMINGTON – Startups Take Live TV. Local and national TV audiences will get to learn about Wilmington startups and entrepreneurs starting Tuesday through the airing of the first episode of START UP. The first episode will air on PBS (WUNC-DT4) at 4:30 p.m., as well as on World Channel.…
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Vertical Roots Featured on START UP, Wilmington Ranked in Top Emerging Ecosystems, Pantheon Hosts WebOps.21 Tomorrow!
START UP TV Features Charleston’s Vertical Roots Founders CHARLESTON – Revolutionizing Hydroponic Farming. START UP, a TV series airing on PBS and hosted by Gary Bredow, will feature companies from Charleston, Savannah and Wilmington throughout the current season. Episode 1, Season 9 will tell the story of two high school friends, Andrew Hare and Matt Daniels, who had a…
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DIG a Tech Exec: Mike Gianoni, CEO of Blackbaud
Mike Gianoni, CEO of Charleston, SC-based Blackbaud, is this week’s guest executive for DIG SOUTH’s “Five for the Tribe.” Gianoni dug into questions about his career, his take on tech companies doing business in the South, and much more. Describe your company and describe your clients/customers. What does “a day in the life” look like? …
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Palmetto Launches ‘Get Solar, Give Solar’, Google’s Black Founders Fund Selects 5 Startups, Blackbaud’s Mike Gianoni Answers “Five for the Tribe”
Palmetto Launches New ‘Get Solar, Give Solar’ Program CHARLESTON – Clean energy. Palmetto, a rapidly growing platform technology company accelerating the national adoption of clean energy, today – in conjunction with the start of Climate Week – is announcing its new ‘Get Solar, Give Solar’ program focused on providing underserved communities with access to solar energy systems. Palmetto…
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Nashville Startup Combines Sports Betting and Tech, NC State Identifies Neutron Beam, Abby Leibowitz Appears on SOUTH POD Today!
Nashville Startup is Bringing Sports Betting to the Online Age NASHVILLE – Digitizing casinos. Sports betting is currently only legal in 18 states and DC, with a handful of states actively debating the adoption of new legislation to allow for it. Tennessee legalized sports betting in 2019, which Daniel Kustelski, CEO of Chaulkine said has helped…
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Intuit to Buy Mailchimp, Startup Creating Water from Air Moves to Tampa, Abby Leibowitz Appears on SOUTH POD
Intuit to buy Mailchimp for $12 billion. ATLANTA – Bringing platforms together. Intuit, the parent company of TurboTax and QuickBooks, will acquire Mailchimp, a company best known as a provider of email marketing services, the companies announced on Monday. The cash-and-stock deal, which is subject to regulatory approvals, will value Mailchimp at about $12 billion. The deal…
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UPS to Buy Delivery Platform Roadie, Drones Come to Georgia, DIG SOUTH CEO/Founder to Appear on Game Changer Chat
UPS to Buy Delivery Platform Roadie ATLANTA – Same-day delivery. United Parcel Service Inc. is getting into same-day delivery with a deal to buy Roadie Inc., a platform that uses gig workers to deliver items from retailers and other shippers quickly. Roadie founder Marc Gorlin sat down for a fireside chat at DIG SOUTH Tech Summit 2019, sharing…
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Atlanta Tech Village Modernizing Construction Recruitment, Web App Saves Money at the Grocery, TriNet’s Dynamic Speaker Roster
Atlanta Tech Village startup NewCrew Modernizes Construction Recruitment ATLANTA – Modernizing construction. To find construction jobs, many workers just look for cranes in the sky, NewCrew founder Kaitlin Lutz said. Then, they walk up to the job site and hope the contractors need more hands. It’s an old-fashioned process in a digital age in which most…
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TABConf is Back, Austin Startup Printing Homes, Catch Talent Launches Tampa Market
Bitcoin Developer Community to Convene for TABCONF ATLANTA – TABConf is back! The conference kicks off November 4-6. Created in 2018, The Atlanta Bitcoin Conference (TABConf) was formed to help educate communities about decentralized and blockchain technologies. The grassroots event focuses on quality content, provides education, builds community, and challenges attendees to learn new things. The…
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Roadie Ranks No. 203 on 2021 Inc. 5000 List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies
Delivery-industry disruptor achieves three-year revenue growth of 2,157% Roadie, the nation’s first “on the way” crowdsourced delivery platform, was today revealed as No. 203 in the annual Inc. 5000, the most prestigious ranking of America’s fastest-growing private companies. Companies in the 2021 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2017 to…
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HiveTracks Get Pollinated with New Funding, Florida Southern eSports, Call for Startups
HiveTracks Get Pollinated with New Funding An emerging startup focused on improving health outcomes for honeybees, HiveTracks, has raised nearly $170,000 in 2021 thus far and plans to raise more ahead of a key product launch slotted for June. Founder James Wilkes is using computing to drive positive outcomes for honeybees and all the stakeholders…
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Call Experts Announces a Strategic Partnership with ADP Marketplace
Charleston, SC – Call Experts has entered into a strategic partnership with ADP Marketplace. The collaboration originated from a need to add automated attendance management via phone lines to ADP’s existing services. The partnership will help both parties offer seamless connectivity between Call Expert’s Attendance Bridge and ADP payroll systems. With close to four decades…
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Benefitfocus Appoints New CEO, Karen Houghton Steps Away From Atlanta Tech Village, Lithium Extraction Tech Mines $20M for EnergyX
Benefitfocus Appoints Matthew Levin CEO Charleston-based Benefitfocus, an industry-leading benefits technology platform that simplifies benefits administration for employers, health plans, and brokers, announced that Matthew Levin has been appointed president and chief executive officer and to the Benefitfocus board of directors, effective May 10, 2021. Benefitfocus is a longtime supporter of DIG SOUTH. “On behalf…
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Shyft Shifts Into New Gear, Cisco Acquires Sedona Systems, Boomtown Accelerators Hiring in ATL
Shyft Auto Gains Traction Shyft Auto founders (and recent Wild Pitch Wednesday guests) say they didn’t have a pandemic in mind when they originally developed a tech platform to help car dealerships go “contactless.” Then COVID-19 hit, just as they were launching, and it became even more relevant. “When repair shops closed their waiting areas,…
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Cleaning Robot Captures Hearts, Safer Reusables from QUVI, ROK Tech Wins Gold, Raleigh’s AURA AI Tech Lands $50M Contract
Tampa Startup With High-Tech Cleaning Robots Is Getting National Attention Christine Gallo has spent the last 18 months pivoting from simply trying to save lives to now trying to protect businesses. “Before it was pandemonium, and now it’s strategic,” said Gallo, owner and founder of IP Program Infection Prevention. “We were trying to save lives…
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Flying Cars, the Future of SC Startups and Elon Musk: Q&A with SCRA CEO Bob Quinn
DIG SOUTH recently caught up with SCRA CEO Bob Quinn to get his take on the tech world and bring us up-to-speed on the current state of SCRA (South Carolina Research Authority). SCRA was founded in 1983 with the mission to propel South Carolina’s innovation economy by providing resources and services that accelerate the growth…
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6AM City Launches RICtoday, Quantgene and CureMatch Join Forces, Special Offer from Serenity
DIG SOUTH Wild Pitch 2019 Runner Up 6AM City AnnouncesLaunch of RICtoday 6AM City, the runner up in DIG SOUTH Wild Pitch 2019, has announced it is doubling the size of the business in 2021 and continuing its expansion with the launch of RICtoday (Richmond, VA) in May, to join eight existing southeastern markets and over 400,000 subscribers. 6AM has…
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Raleigh Gets Smart, Chief Outsiders on SOUTH POD, DIG NATION Welcomes New Members Parker Poe Adams and Bernstein + Quantgene
TECH IN THE SOUTH BIRMINGHAM – Women in the workforce. Delphine Carter saw the need to connect companies with diverse, non-traditional talent and help women jump back into their careers. What was born was Boulo Solutions, a career and staffing platform designed for women in the workforce. Tech it out. RALEIGH – Smart cities. Raleigh-based EDJX Inc.,…
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CMO & Growth Expert Paul Sparrow on DIG Café, Shyft into Wild Pitch Wednesday, Terminus Sets the Pace, The Coasts Join Forces
Learn New Growth Tools from DIG NATION Member & CMO Paul Sparrow on DIG CAFÉ Wednesday, March 10 at 11 AM ETREGISTER NOW Check Your Engine Oil Before Driving: Capitalizing on the Unique Economic State of Your Business Chief Marketing Officer, speaker, and business growth expert Paul Sparrow shares a simple methodology for determining the economic health…
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Shyft into Wild Pitch March 17, Emotive Makes Money moved, SOUTH POD tonight with Iron Bridge Capital
WILD PITCH Wednesday with Shyft Auto Featuring Marcus AmanWednesday, March 17 @ 11 AM ETREGISTER NOW About ShyftShyft Auto helps reduce chaos at automotive repair shops while giving consumers an amazon-like experience for service. Shyft’s technology helps repair shops offer contactless solutions to their customers, while increasing retention, revenue, and satisfaction scores. The Shyft Auto…
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Charleston Tech Center on SOUTH POD, Atlanta Braves Connect with HBCUs
SOUTH POD RETURNS WITH THE DEVELOPERS OF CHARLESTON TECH CENTER Featuring: John Hand & Martin Willoughby Featuring DIG NATION members Iron Bridge CapitalThursday, February 25 @ 8 PM EST Tune in next week as we feature Iron Bridge Capital, the developers of Charleston Tech Center on SOUTH POD. Designed as a home for tech-centric companies,…
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Tomorrow! BatteryXchange Electrifies On Wild Pitch Wednesday, Gamestop Shockwaves in the South
BatteryXchange Electrifies Wild Pitch Wednesday Tomorrow Plug in to Watch Entrepreneur Desmond Wiggan Pitch on ZoomFebruary 17 – 11:00 AM EST Register Now About BatteryXchangeBatteryXchange(“BXE”) is an ecosystem of smart kiosks that seeks to increase connectivity between people, businesses, and communities. BXE uses its rental platform to provide on-demand portable batteries to connect people, businesses, & communities to…
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Michael Jordan Tops the Investor Charts, BatteryXchange Gets Electric On Wild Pitch Wednesday, Lenovo Hits the Speedway
BatteryXchange to Electrify Wild Pitch Wednesday Zoom in to Watch Desmond Wiggan Pitch on February 17 – 11:00 AM EST Register Now About BatteryXchangeBatteryXchange(“BXE”) is an ecosystem of smart kiosks that seeks to increase connectivity between people, businesses, and communities. BXE uses its rental platform to provide on-demand portable batteries to connect people, businesses, & communities…
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VentureSouth Invests over $9 Million in 26 Southeastern-Based Companies in 2020
Despite the myriad challenges brought on by a global pandemic, VentureSouth is proud to announce another strong year of investment activity for 2020, with a total of $9.2 million invested in 26 early stage companies in the Southeast. Over 60% of the funding went to support existing VentureSouth portfolio companies as they navigated substantial threats to…
