Category: South Pod
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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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Austin’s Digital Turbine Acquires Mobile Posse for $66M, Terminus (ATL), CompostNow (RAL), Enveil (DC), Durham’s Aerie, Fattmerchant on South Pod
Austin-based mobile apps and ads platform company Digital Turbine announced it has scooped up mobile ad platform Mobile Posse for near $66 million. “The strategic rationale for the acquisition is very strong,” Mobile Posse CEO Jon Jackson said in a statement. “We believe that Mobile Posse’s content discovery platform and Digital Turbine’s distribution and relationships combine to…
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Bala “Mr. B” Inamdar, CEO, Mercury Exchange on South Pod (Recorded at Venture135 in Charlotte)
Mercury Exchange delivers a safe, reliable and fully regulatory compliant digital assets exchange designed to meet the requirements of the institutional marketplace. Founded by some of the original architects of ICE/NYSE, Mercury Exchange has built a proven, sophisticated, and secure digital assets trading platform demanded by institutions, broker-dealers, hedge funds, family offices, banks and global…
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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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Comcast NBCU Launches Atlanta-Based SportsTech Accelerator, FlashParking, WhyHotel, Florida Funders, SouthPod featuring Comcast VP Horwitz
Comcast NBCU announced the launch of SportsTech, a three-month global accelerator for multi-stage sports technology startups that will be based in Atlanta. The accelerator features what Comcast NBCU calls an “unprecedented partnership” between three of the broadcast giant’s sports brands – NBC Sports, Sky Sports and Golf Channel, as well as NASCAR and a pair…
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Raleigh-based MobileSmith Lands App Partnership with AT&T + AvidXchange (CLT), Sense Photonics (DUR), TOTO/GR PRO (ATL), Blackbaud (CHS)
MobileSmith, a developer of apps aiming to improve healthcare, is getting a chance to grow nationally through a partnership with AT&T. The companies announced they would include MobileSmith’s health platform known as Peri as part of AT&T’s Edge-to-Edge Digital Hospital Solutions. MobileSmith (OTCBB: MOST) says its apps are designed to help better prepare patients for…
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VentureSouth’s Record-Breaking Year + TeleVet (Austin) + eNotaryLog (Tampa), Revibe Connect (RAL), OncoLens (ATL)
VentureSouth announced another year of record-setting investment activity. The South Carolina-based firm invested $12.7 million in 28 Southeastern early-stage companies in 2019, up from $7 million the previous year, representing an 82% increase in capital deployed. The firm also broke a record for new investments, with 10 companies added to the VentureSouth portfolio in 2019…
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S.C. Department of Commerce Office of Innovation to Launch Scribble Event Series
COLUMBIA, S.C. – The South Carolina Department of Commerce’s Office of Innovation announced the launch of the Toolkit Talk series celebrating innovators across S.C. The interactive three-day series, which is part of the Scribble online resource, provides opportunities for idea sharing and collaboration between innovators of all industry sectors and experience levels. The series will…
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Levelset Lands $30M, Arjun Devarajan on SOUTH POD + Tech Jobs (ATL), Sense Photonics (Durham), Shipwell (ATX), Arcadia (DC)
New Orleans Startup Levelset Lands $30M Series C Funding Round to Jumpstart Growth Levelset, a New Orleans-based SaaS platform that helps relieve cash flow issues for contractors by getting them paid more quickly, has announced a $30 million Series C round of funding led by Horizons Ventures. S3 Ventures, Altos Ventures, Operating Venture Capital, as…
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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: First Black Woman-founded Startup in TN to Raise $1M + New Story (ATL), LeanDNA (ATX), 2ULaundry (CLT) + Inc Mag rankings
Possip, the edtech platform giving schools the tools to maximize the power of their communities, announced that it has raised $1,020,000 in funding. Investors include the Launch TN Impact Fund and angel investors committed to high-impact companies. The platform uses text-based pulse checks to help families share praise, feedback and information with schools. With this round…
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Tech in the South: ATL’s Alex Gonzalez on South Pod + PrecisionHawk (RAL-DUR) + Good Growth (CHS), Passport (CLT), XSOLIS (NSV), Popspots (Austin)
PrecisionHawk, a Raleigh Trianlge-based drone technology company, has raised a $32 million investment from venture investors including Millennium Technology Value Partners, Third Point Ventures, Eastward Capital Partners, and others. The round brings PrecisionHawk’s financing so far to more than $100 million. PrecisionHawk CEO Michael Chasen said the company has had 100 percent year-over-year growth for…
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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…
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Call for Startups to Join DIG SOUTH Wild Pitch Open + Pensa (Austin), Motivo (ATL), Allstacks (RAL), CloudFactory (DUR)
Hitting the fundraising trail in 2020? Your best opportunity may be at the South’s Capitol of Capital on April 24. The call for startups to join Wild Pitch at DIG SOUTH Tech Summit in Charleston is now open! Connect with more than 200 top-shelf investors, 2200+ attendees and get deals done. Selected teams will receive 2 all-access badges (plus…
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Tech in the South: Meetup w/ Former Head of Uber Biz Dev, Nashville Startup Predicts Personalities + Climate Service (AVL), CloudFactory (Durham), Popmenu (ATL), Base (GVL)
Jonathan DiOrio is a big deal. And we’re hosting him this Thursday at Blue Ion in Charleston. It’s our last DIG NATION Executive Member event of 2019 – you should be there too. Learn to scale a company like mad, join a live taping of South Pod and enjoy tasty bites and adult beverages. This is just one of the…
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Tech in the South: Rise of the Rest (DC) Closes $150M Fund + Ribbon (Charlotte), Backed by ATL, Silbo (Raleigh), Digital Echo (CHS)
Revolution announced Monday that its Rise of the Rest Seed Fund has raised another $150 million in financing to back startups in emerging U.S. markets. Rise of the Rest counts some of the country’s most well-known executives and entrepreneurs among its investors. The list includes Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Dan Gilbert of Quicken Loans, the…
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Live from DIG SOUTH 2019: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less for Technology Leaders with Greg McKeown
This is the work of life: Figure out your essential mission and live it. Greg McKeown, New York Times Best-Selling Author of Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less and DIG SOUTH 2019 Headliner joins SOUTH POD host Jon Yarian to explain the steps to reaching essentialism and why even technology entrepreneurs and business leaders need to perfect…
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Perfecting Your Personal Pitch with Annie Scranton of Pace PR
Annie Scranton knows the power of a solid pitch. After nearly a decade working as a producer with leading networks like CNN, Fox News, CNBC, MSNBC and ABC (where she booked guest appearances for shows like Good Morning America), she founded Pace PR, a full-service media relations agency based in New York City. Leveraging her…
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DIG SOUTH Tech Summit Announces Call for Startups Join Wild Pitch in Charleston
The South’s best early- to growth-stage companies invited to apply to present to top investors on April 26 at Charleston Gaillard Center Heed the call, founders! DIG SOUTH Tech Summit has announced its call for startups to join Wild Pitch on April 26, 2019 at the Charleston Gaillard Center. Held on the third day of…
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Skip the Craigslist Posts: How Nashville’s Project Admission is Reinventing Live Music Ticketing
We’ve all been there: You get an email announcing that one of your favorite bands is coming to town in a few months. Excited but in no rush, you delete the message and figure you’ll remember to buy tickets when you get home from work. But you forget. Your dinner plans, lingering to-dos, and Netflix…
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Live from DIG on the 1/2 Shell: How StoragePug is Disrupting the Undisrupted
Matt Huddleston, Tommy Nguyen and Richard Jeffords of StoragePug join host Joel Sadler at DIG on the 1/2 Shell to share how they’re bringing tech to the self storage market. Each team member explains their role (and how each piece fits together to form the perfect whole that keeps things running!), attending trade shows to…
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Live from DIG on the 1/2 Shell: Double Growth in Half the Time for Tech Teams with Carrie Jaquith of Lazard
From the Main Stage at DIG on the 1/2 Shell, Carrie Jaquith, VP, Digital Product Manager, Emerging Technology, Data & Analytics for Lazard shares how entrepreneurs and tech teams can double their growth in half the time by asking more questions and understanding your internal ecosystem. Catch a new episode of SOUTH POD every Tuesday night at…
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What’s Your Story: Q&A with John Buzzell, President of YOU ARE HERE
Imagine walking into a cell phone store and, just as the tester ringtones begin to wear on your patience, transporting yourself to a virtual Caribbean cruise. Picture ditching online FAQs and learning how to use a new product with the help of a holographic mentor or a 3D mobile app instead. Or what if you…
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Live from DIG on the 1/2 Shell: The Future of Outsourcing with Andy Hilliard of Accelerance
From the main stage at DIG on the 1/2 Shell, Accelerance President Andy Hilliard shares how to vet and manage offshore tech talent. Interviewed by new South Pod co-host Joel Sadler, Andy relays inspired tales from his world travels and testifies that building an outsourced team doesn’t have to be bad, scary or overwhelming. Catch…
