Category: Nashville
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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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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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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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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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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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Register for the 2020 Greater Nashville IT Summit
The Greater Nashville Technology Council has announced that registration is open for the 2020 Greater Nashville IT Summit, which will take place virtually on November 17 from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The IT Summit is a one-day conference that provides high-quality, forward-looking content to IT practitioners at all levels, as well as opportunities for…
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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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Shandoka Electric Motorcycles Rides into Wild Pitch Wednesday, Black Founders Fund, Mental Wellness on South Pod, Charleston is #1
Join us next week on Wild Pitch Wednesday as we hear from the South’s premier electric motorcycle startup. Date: Wednesday, October 7Time: 11:00–11:30am ET Register Now ABOUT SHANDOKA:We are builders and riders, dedicated to offering electric motorcycles for every rider in the new mobility paradigm, fluctuating at the speed of imagination, becoming virtually transparent to…
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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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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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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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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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RioT Announces MISSION-R, LaunchTN in NASH, Plant Health Care in RAL, CData Software in Chapel Hill, Earth Renewable Technology in Brevard
RioT Announces MISSION-R: RIoT’s Moonshot Goal Response to COVID-19 Raleigh, NC-based non-profit accelerator, lab and startup ecosystem supporter RIoT is launching MISSION-R on April 2 at 1pm EST via webinar. RIoT will host experts in the medtech and economic development space to share how they’re fighting for both our health and our economy. According to RIoT’s website, “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…
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BeerAdvocate Purchased by Untappd, ATL’s Create-X, Visualize Health in NSV, Durham’s Sift Media, Self Financial of Austin, and Theorem on South Pod
Despite its explosion in popularity, craft beer is still a relatively small and tight-knit community. A generation ago when the number of breweries was a fraction of what it is today, the community was even smaller and more tight-knit. But even in those days, obsessive drinkers often fell into one of two camps: BeerAdvocate users and RateBeer…
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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…
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Policygenius Raises $100M to Ramp up Durham, Nola’s Advano, Lienwavers.io from NSV, Peerit of Tampa Bay and ATL’s WeWork Labs
“Join Durham’s fastest growing startup,” reads the billboard along 15-501 in big, bold red font. Ever since Policygenius, an insuretech startup based out of New York, announced plans late last year to expand into the Bull City – ultimately bringing 370 new jobs with an average starting salary of $72,000 — it’s been desperate to get…
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Scribble Toolkit for Innovation, K4Connect (RAL), Solomon + Google for Startups (ATL), Blueprint (NSV), Locale (ATX) + Brian Gillespie on South Pod
The S.C. Department of Commerce invites you to Toolkit Talk, a three-day series of events celebrating innovative leaders as featured on Scribble, South Carolina’s content toolkit for the pursuit of innovation. The events are free to the public, but space is limited. RSVP to the location near you. COLUMBIA: February 4, 5:30pm-7:30pm @ SOCO BullstreetGREENVILLE: February…
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MyWorkChoice Raises $3M, Vaynerchuk in Charlotte, Ceterus in CHS, Hytch in Nashville, OnPay in ATL
The future is flexible. At least as far as MyWorkChoice sees it. The North Carolina-based startup is working to redefine “flexible staffing” by offering a platform and app that essentially takes care of all the hassle with scheduling to create “seamless shift transitions.” And it’s gaining traction. The company announced that it closed on its first…
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Tech in the South: PlayOn! Sports (ATL) Raises $25M + Ecobot (ASV), Clutch (DUR), Givful (NSV), REIN (Chapel Hill)
???? ATLANTA – Student athletes. PlayOn! Sports, an Atlanta-based company that streams live and on-demand high school sporting events across the U.S., has announced that it has raised $25 million in a Series B funding round led by venture investment firm BIP Capital, with participation from Jeff Vinik, Teall Capital, and Crossover. The company plans to use the capital…
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Terminus Acquires Sigstr, Civic Dinners on South Pod + Tribecan (Wilmington), Cloud Guru (ATX), Record Job (CLT), Octerra (NVL), Microsoft (Morrisville)
Account-based marketing platform Terminus has acquired Sigstr, the email signature marketing platform that turns the billions of 1:1 employee emails sent every year into powerful brand engagements. The addition of Sigstr creates an end-to-end account-centric marketing platform with the most complete account intelligence (based on intent, engagement, and relationship data) available. The acquisition connects two…
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Tech in the South: Creative Bootcamp Kinetic Launches (Winston-Salem) + Alex Gonzalez on South Pod, Ecobot (Asheville), Brava (Austin), Makeswift (ATL)
Is it time to turn your creative idea into a business? Winston-Salem-based Center for Creative Economy announced the launch of Kinetic, a bootcamp designed for creatives and artists who are ready to launch a business. Creatives will learn how to: Validate your creative idea Develop a business model Identify who your customers are and start talking to them Build a…
