Category: Venture Capital
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Harbor Entrepreneur Center Opens Accelerator Applications, Food Source App Tackles Food Insecurity + Patent Atty Duncan Byers featured on SOUTH POD
HARBOR ENTREPRENEUR CENTER OPENS ACCELERATOR APPLICATIONS CHARLESTON – The Harbor Entrepreneur Center accepts eight companies each year into the Harbor Accelerator program where they remain in residency at the Harbor Epic Center for 24 weeks. During residency, companies engage in a focused curriculum of 14 topics curated by the Harbor’s proven entrepreneurs, which includes training on subjects vital…
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Wilmington’s Vantaca Raises $5M, Extended Reality Stages Add to Georgia’s Production Infrastructure + Duncan Byers Featured on SOUTH POD
WILMINGTON’S VANTACA RAISES $5M WILMINGTON – Vantaca, a Wilmington-based provider of software for association management companies, disclosed it has raised $5 million in equity in an SEC filing. The filing notes that the funding period is indefinite, though it also indicated it does not anticipate the filing period to last longer than one year. So…
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NC’s Front Porch Launches Hybrid VC Fund, Oracle Offers Three $100,000 Grants to UK and US Researchers, Waymo on the Move + $500M Life Science Campus in Holly Springs Grows by 50%+
HYBRID FUND LOOKS TO INTRODUCE MORE PEOPLE TO VENTURE CAPITAL RESEARCH TRIANGLE – Greggory Bordes, Joe Mancini, and Nikin Shah, all graduates of The Fuqua School of Business at Duke, started North Carolina-based Front Porch Venture Partners after working across the country at various investing organizations, startups, and larger corporations. Bordes will appear on a panel…
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Create-X Lands Seed Funding to Keep Workers Safe, Durham AgTech Startup Pairwise Holds Genetic Key + Blackbaud Named to Forbes Best Employers List
CREATE-X STARTUP LANDS FUNDING FOR WEARABLE TECH ATLANTA – It started with a conversation between friends about reducing injuries and deaths in the firefighting community. But after scaling the concept through the Create-X Idea-2-Prototype class at Georgia Tech and launching their first product, the team behind SlateSafety realized their wearable technology had even more industrial use…
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Brothers Create RootNote, A SAAS Platform Helping Creators & Musicians, Charlotte Fintech Startup Quartix Secures $20M in funding + CCED’s Steve Dyke is Recognized in 50 Most Influential
BROTHERS CREATE ROOTNOTE, A SAAS PLATFORM HELPING CREATORS & MUSICIANS NASHVILLE – Between platforms like YouTube, Instagram, Twitch, and Patreon, creatives have a lot of ways to get their content out online. That creates a lot of data to sort through. Nashville-based brothers Jason and Jeremy Burchard wanted to help artists, content creators, and musicians better organize…
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F3TCH Sets Up Shop at N.C. Beach to Help Hotels Connect with Mobile-First Guests, Tampa Chosen to Test Boat-Plane + DIG NATION Welcomes Newest Members!
F3TCH SETS UP SHOP AT NC BEACH TO HELP HOTELS CONNECT WITH MOBILE-FIRST GUESTS WILMINGTON – Jose Quiros didn’t know exactly what to expect when he packed up his life and started heading from Colorado Springs to Wilmington, North Carolina. Quiros built his career in the hotel space, particularly building out guest room technology experiences. He…
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Opportunities for Innovation Within Georgia’s AgTech Scene, 2022 Annual Outlook for Tech Conference + Pantheon Webinar TODAY at 1PM EST
OPPORTUNITIES FOR INNOVATION WITHIN GEORGIA’S AGTECH SCENE ATLANTA – Agriculture is Georgia’s oldest and largest industry, but it might not be the industry where “innovation” is top of mind. A growing number of entrepreneurs across the state and the Southeast region are working to change that narrative — and funding is starting to follow. Global VC…
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KYOCERA AVX Invests in Venture Capital Fund Good Growth Capital, Durham-based Induction Food Systems Wins Slot in Accelerator + Last Month to Apply to WILD PITCH
KYOCERA AVX INVESTS IN VENTURE CAPITAL FUND GOOD GROWTH CAPITAL FOUNTAIN INN, SC – KYOCERA AVX, a leading global manufacturer of advanced electronic components engineered to accelerate technological innovation and build a better future, has invested in Good Growth Capital (GGC), an early-stage venture capital firm heavily invested in complex science and deep-tech startups dedicated to…
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Last Month to Apply to WILD PITCH, Opus Genetics Works to Advance Cures for Blinding Retinal Diseases + Local Gifts from Essentially Charleston Gift Box Biz
APPLY NOW TO TAKE THE STAGE AT DIG SOUTH’S WILD PITCH! CHARLESTON – Call for Startups Open until Dec. 31. DIG SOUTH Wild Pitch is the South’s Capitol of Capital, the first and foremost event specifically welcoming startups from across the region to connect and raise capital. Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, Wild Pitch at DIG SOUTH Tech…
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MITRE Establishes Innovation Center in Huntsville, SMU Invests in AI with New Supercomputer + CCED Makes a Company Announcement
MITRE Establishes Innovation Center in Huntsville HUNTSVILLE – Innovation Hub. The MITRE Corp., a federally funded R&D company, has established a regional innovation hub in Huntsville called the iHub. The iHub, which is located at the Redstone Gateway Conference Center, aims to grow work for the U.S. government, expand involvement with local universities and schools and deepen…
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Venture Capitalists Support Veteran-Led Startups, New Set of Grants to Boost Black ParentPreneurs + ROK Technologies Receives Award at This Year’s Esri IMGIS Conference
TFX Capital Believes Supporting Veteran-led Startups Can Result in Durable Outcomes CHARLOTTE – Venture Veterans. One segment of companies that may be a good bet for venture capitalists, according to venture capital firm TFX Capital are veteran-led startups. Kevin Eckert is a partner at TFX Capital, a veteran-led and service-driven venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology…
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DIG SOUTH Tech Summit Announces Call for Startups
The South’s best early- to growth-stage companies invited to apply to present to top investors on May 11-13 at College of Charleston TD Arena DIG SOUTH Tech Summit has announced its call for startups to join Wild Pitch on May 11-13, 2022 at the College of Charleston TD Arena. Wild Pitch is the perfect opportunity…
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BrainCheck Raises $10M for Health Screening Platform, Local Startup Grows from McKinney with Deployment of Hospitality Tech + Catch Talent Celebrates 6 Years!
BrainCheck Raises $10M for Cognitive Health Screening Platform HOUSTON – Cognitive Care. Houston-based startup BrainCheck raised $10 million in Series B capital to develop its cognitive health screening technology. BrainCheck’s Series B funding round was led by Austin-based Next Coast Ventures and Austin-based S3 Ventures, the health technology firm announced Nov. 3. Additional investors in the Series…
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ATL Based Review Platform Helps Students Find Meaningful Internships, Rampart IC Signs European, Middle Eastern Distribution Agreements + Gordon Jones on SOUTH POD This Week!
ATL Based Review Platform Helps Students Find Meaningful Internships ATLANTA – Experience is Key. Stephen Ralph Jr. and Sims Pettway saw an opportunity to build a student-focused internship review platform for those looking to land a dream position at a coveted corporation like Delta, NASA, or Google. Like most Georgia Tech students, Pettway made his way…
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Venture Atlanta Showcases 91 Stellar Startups, NC Biotech Center Helps Fuel State’s Startup Ecosystem + 3D Systems Acquiring Volumetric
Venture Atlanta Showcases 91 Stellar Startups ATLANTA – Like the Braves’ Freddie Freeman Venture Atlanta knocked it out of the park this past October 20-21, producing a hybrid event that presented an array of top-shelf, scalable startups from seed to growth-stage, hosting hundreds of investors and other attendees, and welcoming Atlanta tech royalty to the stage including, Mailchimp…
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Freeform 3D Printing Startup Partners with NASA, Icon Tech Plans to Print 100-Home Community + 6AM City Rounds Up the 7 Best Fall Festivals in Lowcountry
Freeform 3D Printing Startup Partners with NASA CHATTANOOGA – Space Printing. Branch Technology is building for the moon. Alongside material scientists at Stanford University and global architecture firm Fosters + Partners (designers of Apple’s Cupertino HQ), Branch Technology is working with NASA on what it would take to design 3D printed structures on the moon. Branch Technology’s…
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DIG SOUTH Tech Summit’s 10-Year Anniversary, Call for Startups Open, Free Badge with Membership + Pantheon Named a Major Player in IDC’s Latest Market Report
DIG SOUTH Tech Summit Celebrates 10-Year Anniversary! Holy startup, Batman, it’s been a full decade of DIG SOUTH. Fire up the founder’s signal – we’re going big, Big, BIG … And we need to see YOU there next May 11-13! DIG SOUTH is proud to announce a partnership with College of Charleston to host our 10th-annual DIG SOUTH Tech Summit in TD Arena (the…
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Cisco to Add 700 Jobs in ATL Tech Square, Tech Orgs Collab through Alabama Collective + Call Experts Honored with Exclusive 2021 Award of Excellence for the 13th Consecutive Year.
Cisco to Add 700 Jobs in Midtown’s Tech Square ATLANTA – Growth in Talent and Collaboration. Global technology firm Cisco Systems Inc. is planning a 700-job expansion in Atlanta, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced Wednesday. The Fortune 100 company will open a talent and collaboration center in the Coda building in Midtown, the heart of Atlanta’s burgeoning technology ecosystem. That center…
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Vantaca bringing 100+ jobs to Wilmington, 20 women-led startups join Atlanta Techstars Pre-accelerator, SXSW Pitch Apps Open
Vantaca Bringing 100+ Jobs Paying $80k to Wilmington RALEIGH – Fast Growing Tech Hub. Software firm Vantaca is bringing more than 100 new jobs paying $80,000 to Wilmington and will receive some $1.7 million in state and local tax incentives under an agreement with the State of North Carolina. New jobs include programmers, technicians and…
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Education Tech Startup UpGrad Chose Midtown for it’s U.S. Expansion, SAS plans for New Facility in Alabama, + Join Code+Trust for Happy Hour TONIGHT (10/5) in Charleston, SC!
EdTech Startup UpGrad Chose Midtown for it’s U.S. Expansion ATLANTA – India-based education technology startup UpGrad is looking to build on the legacy of Mailchimp and other successful Midtown startups with its new Ponce City Market office.The startup is investing much of the $185 million it raised earlier this year into an expansion into the United States.…
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National PBS Show Featuring Local Startups Airs Tuesday, HR Startup Raises $15M Seed for Intelligent Interviewing Platform + Dolby Vision gaming launches first on Xbox Series X and S
National PBS Show Featuring Local Startups Airs Tuesday WILMINGTON – Startups Take Live TV. Local and national TV audiences will get to learn about Wilmington startups and entrepreneurs starting Tuesday through the airing of the first episode of START UP. The first episode will air on PBS (WUNC-DT4) at 4:30 p.m., as well as on World Channel.…
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Vertical Roots Featured on START UP, Wilmington Ranked in Top Emerging Ecosystems, Pantheon Hosts WebOps.21 Tomorrow!
START UP TV Features Charleston’s Vertical Roots Founders CHARLESTON – Revolutionizing Hydroponic Farming. START UP, a TV series airing on PBS and hosted by Gary Bredow, will feature companies from Charleston, Savannah and Wilmington throughout the current season. Episode 1, Season 9 will tell the story of two high school friends, Andrew Hare and Matt Daniels, who had a…
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Palmetto Launches ‘Get Solar, Give Solar’, Google’s Black Founders Fund Selects 5 Startups, Blackbaud’s Mike Gianoni Answers “Five for the Tribe”
Palmetto Launches New ‘Get Solar, Give Solar’ Program CHARLESTON – Clean energy. Palmetto, a rapidly growing platform technology company accelerating the national adoption of clean energy, today – in conjunction with the start of Climate Week – is announcing its new ‘Get Solar, Give Solar’ program focused on providing underserved communities with access to solar energy systems. Palmetto…
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Nashville Startup Combines Sports Betting and Tech, NC State Identifies Neutron Beam, Abby Leibowitz Appears on SOUTH POD Today!
Nashville Startup is Bringing Sports Betting to the Online Age NASHVILLE – Digitizing casinos. Sports betting is currently only legal in 18 states and DC, with a handful of states actively debating the adoption of new legislation to allow for it. Tennessee legalized sports betting in 2019, which Daniel Kustelski, CEO of Chaulkine said has helped…
