Category: Austin
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Learn to be Your Own Publicist on DIG CAFÉ, Theorem on SOUTH POD + a first for the Atlanta Film Festival
FALL SEASON OF DIG CAFÉ KICKS OFF WEDNESDAY – ON ZOOM!SPECIAL GUEST | PR PRO ANNIE PACE SCRANTONWED, SEPT 16, 11:00-11:30 amRegister Here What’s BYOP? 5 Steps to Being Your Brand’s Own Publicist Whether your startup has been around for six months, a year, even five years, there’s one thing that every entrepreneur will enviably…
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Learn to be Your Own Publicist on DIG CAFÉ, Data Driven with Interloop on SOUTH POD + Resident Artist WANTED in Charlotte
FALL SEASON OF DIG CAFÉ KICKS OFF NEXT WEDNESDAY – ON ZOOM!SPECIAL GUEST | PR PRO ANNIE PACE SCRANTONWED, SEPT 16, 11:00-11:30 amRegister Here What’s BYOP? 5 Steps to Being Your Brand’s Own Publicist Whether your startup has been around for six months, a year, even five years, there’s one thing that every entrepreneur will…
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Kentucky Derby: Authentic Predictions From A Horse Racing Expert + Atlanta United’s Catie Griggs Sets Goals + Wild Pitch Wednesday with GoBeep
????????Louisville, KY. – Jody Demling, SportsLine’s resident horse racing guru, has nailed nine Derby-Oaks doubles at Churchill Downs in the last 11 years. Now, Demling has analyzed the entire 2020 Kentucky Derby lineup and released where he believes every horse will finish. You can only see them here. So which horse wins the 2020 Kentucky Derby? Where…
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Game of Thrones Actress Turns to Tech, MIME Disrupts Music Biz + Atlanta United’s Catie Griggs Sets Goals + Wild Pitch Wednesday with GoBeep
Molekule has added celebrity funds to its long line of investors. Maisie Williams, an actor most known for her role on the HBO hit series “Game of Thrones,” has invested an undisclosed amount into Molekule. After the Emmy-award winning show came to an end in May 2019, Williams turned her attention to the startup world.…
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ATTN Startups: Ready to Grow and Scale? + Center for Creative Economy, Change Enthusiast Cassandra Worthy on SOUTH POD
The Center for Creative Economy in Winston-Salem, NC has selected 10 entrepreneurs to participate in the organization’s fifth creative accelerator. Velocity is an intensive high impact program that helps creative startups discover their target customers, develop business models, and develop a go-to-market strategy. Top startups in this 9-week program will split a pool of $50,000…
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Change Agent Cassandra Worthy on SOUTH POD, Learn a New Language Through Music + Catch Talent Lands on the Inc 5000 List
Did you miss us?! SOUTH POD is back and we couldn’t think of a better way to kick off the start off this season than with Cassandra Worthy’s fireside chat from the 2020 DIG SOUTH Virtual Tech Summit: Using Change as a Catalyst for Growth. Cassandra discusses how leaders and employees can use change as a catalyst to transform…
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Level Up & Optimize with Abby Leibowitz and Jonathan Williams
Did you catch our deep dive at the Virtual Summit with Call Experts CEO Abby Leibowitz and Theorem VP Jonathan Williams – both DIG NATION members? Titled, “You Are the Keynote: How to Level Up & Optimize as You Emerge,” the session made our members and attendees the star of the show. Questions we explored: 1. What are your companies…
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How Atlanta United’s Catie Griggs Creates a Culture of Innovation
At last month’s DIG SOUTH Virtual Summit, Catie Griggs, VP of Operations at Atlanta United, delivered an incredible behind the scenes look into the creation of one of the most renowned sports teams in the South – and the nation. DIG NATION members received practical tips from Griggs on how she and the Atlanta United team create a culture where…
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DIG SOUTH Virtual Summit Speaker Tease, BlockSpaces Makes Changes to Support Growth, Canva Comes to Austin + Member News
DIG SOUTH VIRTUAL TECH SUMMIT SPEAKER PREVIEW BlockSpaces Makes Changes to Support Growth While many businesses are struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic, blockchain technology development studio BlockSpaces is moving forward with a new operating model, a new management team and a seed round of capital. “Blockchain is poised for explosive growth,” said Gregory Pierce, BlockSpaces’…
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Blackbaud Inks Deal to Buy its HQ, Advancing Diversity with Funding, Tech in the South + Member News
One of the Charleston region’s biggest technology employers and a frequent sponsor of DIG SOUTH Tech Summit is set to take ownership of a sizable commercial real estate deal. Blackbaud Inc. disclosed to shareholders that it signed a binding agreement this week to buy the corporate headquarters it moved into about two years ago from…
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Southern Coastal Cities Need to Attract More Resources For Entrepreneurs and Tech Talent Will Follow
Friends in the southern entrepreneur ecosystem and economic development got into a discussion on a Spring pandemic day about a recent headline where a coastal city in the South was offering $2,000 to incentivize people with tech talent to move to the city. Is $2,000 going to attract the kind of talent that good tech…
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Forbes names Headspring a 2020 Small Giant
Headspring, a software strategy and development company, has been chosen as a 2020 Forbes Small Giant. This recognition acknowledges the top 25 purpose-driven companies in the United States. Every year, Forbes teams up with the Small Giants Community to identify and recognize organizations that choose greatness over growth and invest in their people and their…
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Wild Pitch Wednesday Tomorrow at 11am, Autonomous Scooters Rolled in, Regulr on SOUTH POD, MemberHub
Hey, DIG NATION, Wild Pitch Wednesday is back tomorrow with ServeHub, the Learning Management Platform teams use to stay on track with on-boarding, training and continuous development. Tune in as CEO & Co-founder Brandon Hall pitches to our panel of DIG NATION experts. REGISTER HERE! Get ready for the rebound, Stanfield Residents of Peachtree Corners,…
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Liger Partners on SOUTH POD, Register for DIG CAFÉ launch, BetterCloud Raises $75M, MemberHub
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 Principal at Accenture Ventures, and JD Weinstein of Oracle for Startups to discuss Navigating the VC…
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Oracle for Startups on SOUTH POD, Everlywell Secures FDA Approval + tech news across the South
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 on the conversation next Thursday at 11AM, ask a question, and tell us what’s in…
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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
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 becoming modern media (content) companies, 6AM is building a disruptive local publishing technology platform; curating,…
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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
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 idea is simple: Jon Yarian (my co-hosting partner in crime) meet up for coffee with…
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GoTab’s Mobile Restaurant Transactions, Uber in ATX, Windlift in Morrisville, PRA Health Sciences in RAL, SingleOps in ATL + Jon Jones on SOUTH POD
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 to new situations or to changes in their environment. So there is hope: we will…
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Wild Pitch Wed, Blackbaud Announces COVID Support, Groups360 in NSV, Airbrake in ATX, Teamworks in DRH, EternaTear in RAL
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. Many private K–12 schools across the U.S. are using Blackbaud’s cloud solutions to swiftly move classes…
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AlertMedia Raises $15M, NextPlay in Durham, CallRail in ATL, Bandwidth in Raleigh, TrueBridge in Chapel Hill + Stage 2 Capital on SOUTH POD
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 raised $15 million in new Series C funding to hire about 20 new employees to…
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Everlywell’s Race to Launch Covid-19 Test, Calendly Offers Free Zoom and GoToMeeting, SkillPop, Vertical IQ, Gopher Go, & Crowdsourcing DIG NATION
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 integrations with Zoom and GoToMeeting free of charge through June 30th. The company made the…
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DIG SOUTH in July, The Q, Case Status Raises $1.5M, Pendo, Bakkt, CloudOne, Favor
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 funds will be used to support the company’s continued rapid growth, including the addition of…
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NVL’s axialHealthcare, ATX’s Acadeum, CHS’s Benefitfocus, ATL’s Package Solutions, Venture Atlanta on South Pod
????NASHVILLE – Recovery ecosystem. axialHealthcare, a Nashville-based healthcare optimization company dedicated to navigating substance abuse issues for patients and healthcare providers, has announced the closing of a $15 million Series C equity financing round. The company will use the funding to jumpstart its expansion into the substance use disorder (SUD) treatment and recovery spaces. Learn more.…
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Blinktbi of Charleston Pinpoints Concussions, Tampa’s Molekule, ATL’s BoxLock, Blueprint Title in NSV, Austin’s Eventus Systems, Venture Atlanta on South Pod
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 programs to help them diagnose concussions, a condition that has been hard to measure in…
