Category: News
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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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Call for Startups Open, Emmy Award-Nominated Television Docuseries START UP Returns for Its Ninth Season
Who’s revved up and ready to pitch in person?! The DIG SOUTH Tech SummitCall for Startups is now open. Apply here or refer your favorite startups to join our Wild Pitch event on July 30 in Charleston at the beautiful Sottile Theatre at College of Charleston. Connect with investors, hire top talent and get deals done. Selected teams will also…
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New Raleigh Startup Padeo Cuts Website Load Times Using Predictive Model
Businesses in the U.S. lose millions of dollars each year from having a slow website. For a company like Amazon, that can mean a loss of up to $1.6 billion per year. Padeo, a new startup out of the Triangle, has announced that they’re offering a new way to decrease website load times in a…
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DIG the Q&A: Featuring Doxy.me Founder & DIG NATION Member Brandon Welch
Describe your company and tell us a little about your clients/customers. What does “a day in the life” look like? Doxy.me’s mission is to provide telemedicine capabilities to all, so the company has been set up to create and distribute easy-to-use telemedicine software for everyone. Our customers are healthcare providers. We do not provide healthcare…
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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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6AM CITY: The Fastest Growing Newsletter-First Local Media Company In The United States To Double In Size
6AM City, the fastest growing newsletter-first local media company is on pace to more than double the size of the business in 2021. This July, Louisville, KY (LOUtoday) and Kansas City, MO (KCtoday) will join 6AM’s nine existing markets and over 425,000 subscribers. As society begins to return to a new post-COVID normal, cities across…
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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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Tom Brady’s Tech Touch (yes, that Tom Brady) + NC Angels Up for a Vote
TOM BRADY TOP OF HIS CLASS Seven-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady is using his tech touch to help students stay connected. Brady, alongside Madonna and U2 manager Guy Oseary and Salesforce Ventures, has participated in a $12.2 million funding round for a Washington D.C. education startup. “As most parents experienced firsthand, the pandemic highlighted…
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Alto Changes Crypto, Element 451 invests $3M into Student Enrollment, Greenville Tech Company Visited by President Biden
TECH IN THE SOUTH NASHVILLE – Crypto new ways. When Alto closed its $2.8 million seed round in early 2019, the team was on a mission to make alternative investment opportunities accessible to more people. Now, the Nashville-based team raised a $17 million Series A funding round this week, led by Menlo Park-based Unusual Ventures. Read more. RALEIGH…
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Blackbaud’s Social Good Startup Program Now Recruiting for the July 2021 Cohort
Does your startup need some support? Do you want to make a bigger difference? Blackbaud has launched its Social Good Startup Program to help lift early-stage startups. Blackbaud’s Social Good Startup Program is a unique year-long accelerator designed to support early-stage startups with the potential to impact the Ecosystem of Good®. Participants receive curated access to…
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Apply To the Blackbaud Social Good Startup Program, SCRA CEO Bob Quinn envisions SC Tech Economy, Other Pandemic Pivots
Need some support? Blackbaud has launched its Social Good Startup Program to help lift early-stage startups. Blackbaud’s Social Good Startup Program is a unique year-long accelerator designed to support early-stage startups with the potential to impact the Ecosystem of Good®. Participants receive curated access to Blackbaud resources, marketing opportunities, and nondilutive grant funding. The social…
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SCRA CEO Bob Quinn talks SC startups, Itential Lands $20M, Find out more about your customers at the next SCRA Webinar
Flying Cars, the Future for 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…
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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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Gang-Run Craft Brewery in Wilmington Gets Molson Coors Investment, DIG SOUTH Tech Summit in Charleston, eBlu Kentucky Startup Raises $11.4M
YOUR SUMMER DESTINATION – DIG SOUTH TECH SUMMIT! It’s alive! It’s alive! DIG SOUTH Tech Summit is coming July 28-30 in-person and streaming. Mark your calendars…seriously…right now. Very few in-person tech conferences will happen this year and you do not want to miss the best one in the South – in Charleston! Join us to refresh your…
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Pryon Cracks Top 100 ‘Most Promising’ AI Startups List, Member Roundup
SAVE-THE-DATE IN-PERSON + STREAMINGJULY 28-30, 2021 – CHARLESTON DIG SOUTH TECH SUMMITROARS BACK! JOIN DIG NATION – INCLUDES FREE BADGE – ONLY 250 LEFT! Artificial Intelligence startup Pryon, led by veteran tech entrepreneur Igor Jablokov, is gaining more traction. It’s a member of private equity and venture capital firm CB Insights’ AI 100, a ranking of…
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Nuclein Raises $14 M, DIG NATION member Roundup
Without a Product For Sale, Nuclein Raises $14M Austin startup Nuclein might become known as the company that made an at-home Covid-19 test that’s so easy you just spit in a can, press a button and wait about an hour for results. But this isn’t the story of a startup built out of the current pandemic. Nuclein was founded back…
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BoomTown Acquires Brokermint, Special Offer from Serenity
BoomTown Acquires Brokermint to Help Leverage Closings Real estate sales and marketing company BoomTown has acquired a company that automates back-office management and transactions, the company said in a news release. BrokerMint is the third acquisition for the company since 2018. BoomTown, which moved to the Pacific Box & Crate development in North Charleston, began…
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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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DIG SOUTH Featured company GoPuff Raises 1.2 B, Paul Sparrow on SOUTH POD Tonight
Former DIG SOUTH Tech Summit Featured Company GoPuff Raises $1.2B; Valuation of $8.9B Delivery startup goPuff announced Tuesday that it raised $1.2 billion in funding at a valuation of $8.9 billion. That’s $5 billion more than its previous valuation in October 2020. GoPuff VP of Strategy and Chief of Staff Dan Folkman kicked off DIG…
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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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Chief Outsiders on SOUTH POD Next Week, Spiffy Announces Seven New Locations
PAUL SPARROW OF CHIEF OUTSIDERS ON SOUTH POD NEXT WEEK Learn New Growth Tools from CMO Paul Sparrow Thursday, March 25 at 8 PM ETDIG SOUTH Facebook Page 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…
