Category: Charleston
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ROK Technologies Named to Esri’s Partner Advisory Council
Today ROK Technologies, LLC announced the nomination and acceptance of Alex Coleman to Esri’s Partner Advisory Council (PAC). Alex Coleman, CEO of ROK Technologies will serve as a representative for a 3 year term. The PAC, established in 2010, serves as a Board of Directors for Partnering at Esri. This is an esteemed community offered…
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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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WPW Features CEO Tom Rump of Mesur.io, a Startup “Giving the Earth a Voice,” Cultivating Diversity in Austin, Spiffy Gets Creative in RTP
Mesur.io‘s Earthstream Platform provides growers and enterprises with real-time environmental analytics. Combining hyper local data streams from the soil, the sky and the seasons, the Earthstream Platform predicts pest and disease emergence patterns, plant nutrition needs, and more. that provides solutions to improve environmental resource management. Tune in tomorrow at 11am Mesur.io CEO Tom Rump takes the virtual…
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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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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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6AM City on Wild Pitch Wednesday, Strategic Sales Software, “The Biebs” & IP & Patent Attorney Duncan Byers on South Pod
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 on becoming modern media (content) companies, 6AM is building a disruptive local publishing technology platform;…
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Venture Carolina Lunch & Learn, Castellucci, Reveal Mobile, VUGO, AvidXchange, $8000 in Free Marketing Credits + Home Lending Pal on Wild Pitch Wednesday
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? Unlocking the human genome? Self-reinvention? Whatever it is, reach out. Give us a shout. And…
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Investors Pour Money Into Next Glass, K4Connect, SC Dept of Unemployment Chat Bot, BestFit, CureMint, + Interloop on Wild Pitch Wednesday!
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 also have stories about K4Connect, an AI-powered bot you can chat up at the SC…
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Ready for the Rebound: Read About Blockchain and Immunization Passports, Climate Service, Cloosiv, Aledade, GuestBox and Interloop on Wild Pitch!
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 the maelstrom (yes, that’s an Edgar Allan Poe reference. He once lived large in our hometown…
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ROK Technologies Announces COVID-19 Emergency Cloud Relief to Enable Remote GIS Workforces
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 and data in the cloud thereby enabling a successful remote workforce. The Cloud Relief Effort…
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Regulr Guests on Wild Pitch Wed, Airstream Startup Pivots to First Responders, Atlatl, LocatorX, Powerhome, AcreTrader, Oracle Webinar
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, his mother-in-law found GuestWings, booked it during a family visit here and loved it. The…
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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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OurStreets Crowdsources Supplies, WeWork, Liger, Pendo, BioMedomis, Stage2Capital on SOUTH POD, King + Columbus Crisis Webinar
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 essential items. Users can also report whether they were able to practice social distancing at…
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Last Mile Holdings and Gotcha Mobility Officially Merge
Last Mile Holdings, formally OjO Electric, announced it has officially merged with Gotcha Mobility (a DIG SOUTH sponsor), making it one of the largest micro-mobility companies in the United States. Last Mile Holdings will acquire Gotcha’s portfolio of exclusive long-term contracts featuring 35 universities and 42 municipalities. Throughout 2020, the adjoined companies plan to launch…
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Gotcha Mobility Supporting Local Businesses During Covid-19 by Offering Electric Vehicles
Gotcha Mobility announced it will offer its electric vehicles to local restaurants and merchants in an effort to help meet the demand for delivered products such as takeout meals and light groceries. The company is pivoting its business model in the face of coronavirus to support local businesses and their employees and customers. Gotcha will maintain…
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Call Experts, CommAlert, and Punchcard Systems Announce “Covid Continuity,” a Partnership Committed to Providing Resources in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Charleston, SC – Call Experts, CommAlert, and Punchcard Systems announced a partnership among contact center leaders across the US and Canada to quickly make critical services and tools available to businesses of all sizes in response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. With close to four decades of experience supporting business operations during disasters and routine…
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DIG SOUTH Rescheduled, Overhaul Hauls in $17.5M, RTP’s Get Spiffy, Raleigh’s Corevisit, Charleston’s Deal Alliance, ATL’s Endeavor
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 capital infusion to expand its markets and products, according to the announcement. Overhaul plans to…
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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…
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Wild Pitch Deadline Feb 21, Charlotte-based Hylaine Sets Up Shop in Raleigh, Exponential AI (ATL), Carbon Relay (DC), Carolinas Fintech Ventures (CLT), Pattern Bioscience (ATX), Mr. B on South Pod
Another startup wants to call the Oak City home. Hylaine, a technology consulting firm headquartered in Charlotte, announced the opening of its new office in Raleigh. By the end of 2020, it said it expects the Raleigh office to have 15 to 20 employees. “Our motto at Hylaine is ‘solving technology, together.’ So we’re trying…
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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
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 phase of a project to achieve the best results and deliver Full Stack Innovation™. Meet the…
