Category: Venture Capital
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Shyft into Wild Pitch March 17, Emotive Makes Money moved, SOUTH POD tonight with Iron Bridge Capital
WILD PITCH Wednesday with Shyft Auto Featuring Marcus AmanWednesday, March 17 @ 11 AM ETREGISTER NOW About ShyftShyft Auto helps reduce chaos at automotive repair shops while giving consumers an amazon-like experience for service. Shyft’s technology helps repair shops offer contactless solutions to their customers, while increasing retention, revenue, and satisfaction scores. The Shyft Auto…
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Charleston Tech Center on SOUTH POD, Atlanta Braves Connect with HBCUs
SOUTH POD RETURNS WITH THE DEVELOPERS OF CHARLESTON TECH CENTER Featuring: John Hand & Martin Willoughby Featuring DIG NATION members Iron Bridge CapitalThursday, February 25 @ 8 PM EST Tune in next week as we feature Iron Bridge Capital, the developers of Charleston Tech Center on SOUTH POD. Designed as a home for tech-centric companies,…
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Tomorrow! BatteryXchange Electrifies On Wild Pitch Wednesday, Gamestop Shockwaves in the South
BatteryXchange Electrifies Wild Pitch Wednesday Tomorrow Plug in to Watch Entrepreneur Desmond Wiggan Pitch on ZoomFebruary 17 – 11:00 AM EST Register Now About BatteryXchangeBatteryXchange(“BXE”) is an ecosystem of smart kiosks that seeks to increase connectivity between people, businesses, and communities. BXE uses its rental platform to provide on-demand portable batteries to connect people, businesses, & communities to…
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Michael Jordan Tops the Investor Charts, BatteryXchange Gets Electric On Wild Pitch Wednesday, Lenovo Hits the Speedway
BatteryXchange to Electrify Wild Pitch Wednesday Zoom in to Watch Desmond Wiggan Pitch on February 17 – 11:00 AM EST Register Now About BatteryXchangeBatteryXchange(“BXE”) is an ecosystem of smart kiosks that seeks to increase connectivity between people, businesses, and communities. BXE uses its rental platform to provide on-demand portable batteries to connect people, businesses, & communities…
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VentureSouth Invests over $9 Million in 26 Southeastern-Based Companies in 2020
Despite the myriad challenges brought on by a global pandemic, VentureSouth is proud to announce another strong year of investment activity for 2020, with a total of $9.2 million invested in 26 early stage companies in the Southeast. Over 60% of the funding went to support existing VentureSouth portfolio companies as they navigated substantial threats to…
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Charles Barkley Invests in Raleigh, Register Now for Charleston Tech Center on DIG CAFÉ, Celebrate Black History Month with AR
DIG CAFE RETURNS WITH THE DEVELOPERS OF CHARLESTON TECH CENTER Featuring DIG NATION members John Hand & Martin Willoughby of Iron Bridge CapitalWednesday, February 10 – 11:00 AM ESTREGISTER NOW Get ready for Iron Bridge Capital, the developers of Charleston Tech Center. Designed to be home to a full house of tech-centric companies, CTC will serve as…
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DIG CAFE features Charleston Tech Center Developers, SCRA Announces Investment in GoBeep, DIG NATION Membership Round Up
DIG CAFE with John Hand & Martin Willoughby Featuring DIG NATION members Iron Bridge CapitalWednesday, February 10 – 11:00 AM ESTREGISTER at DIGSOUTH.COM Next week we are featuring Iron Bridge Capital, the developers of Charleston Tech Center. Designed to be home to a full house of tech-centric companies, CTC will serve as a centerpiece of Charleston’s burgeoning tech…
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WILD PITCH Tomorrow with Nerve.fm, NASA Grant for Drone Delivery + Bringing New Life to Laundromats with 2ULaundry
Wild Pitch Wednesday Kicks off for our 2021 season! Featuring Nerve.fmWednesday, February 3 – 11:00 AM ESTSponsored by Oracle for StartupsREGISTER NOW Wild Pitch Wednesday is back and we are kicking off this season with the Co-Founders of Nerve.fm, a music streaming service promising to pay artists what they deserve. Join us for this exciting live…
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WILD PITCH is BACK with Nerve.fm, Amazon Gives the Scoop on Hiring on SOUTH POD, Whose Funding is On Fire?
Wild Pitch Wednesday Returns with New Music Streaming Service Nerve.fm Featuring Nerve.fmWednesday, February 3 – 11:00 AM ESTSponsored by Oracle for StartupsREGISTER NOW Wild Pitch Wednesday is back and we are kicking off this season with the Co-Founders of Nerve.fm, a music streaming service promising to pay artists what they deserve. Join us for this…
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Women-led Cleantech Powering Our Water, Bumble Goes Public, SOUTH POD Rewind with Social Flow
Women Owned Cleantech A women-led cleantech startup is getting ready to pilot its “game-changing” water purification technology after landing $700,000 in funding. NALA Systems, headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, says it has developed new reverse-osmosis membranes that could cut the cost of water desalination by up to 40%. This week, the startup announced plans to…
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Proterra Going Public, Roadie helps Roadies, Liger Partners Recognized Nationally
VentureSouth Portfolio Company Proterra To Go Public VentureSouth is pleased to announce that its portfolio company Proterra, a leading commercial electric vehicle technology company with manufacturing operations in South Carolina, will become publicly listed through a merger with special purpose acquisition company ArcLight Clean Transition Corporation (Nasdaq: ACTC). VentureSouth first invested in Proterra in 2011…
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Peloton Makes an NC Acquisition, NCCHR Launches a Virtual Museum, FinTech Generations Set for June
ORACLE FOR STARTUPS OFFERS MEMBER CLOUD DEAL, MENTORING & MORE Join DIG NATION partner Oracle for Startups with promo code “DIG2021” to unlock up to $5,000 in additional free cloud credits and a 70% discount for 2 years, plus expert mentorship, migration support, technical resources and access to Oracle’s 430,000+ customers. (How to join with promo code) Oracle…
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Durham’s Spoonflower Blooms, Zoom & Google Meet Eliminate Time Restraints, IBM Acquisition, Venture Summit Connect West Discount + Fintech Generations
DURHAM’S SPOONFLOWER BLOOMS TO TRIPLE-DIGIT GROWTH DURING COVID Back in March, Spoonflower, an on-demand, digital printing company, reported 30% year-over-year growth in the first quarter. By most standards, it was poised for a “nice” year going forward, says its CEO Michael Jones. Then the pandemic hit. “We saw a little bit of a slow down for…
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Turn Your Back on Revenue? – on SOUTH POD, Big Tech Hiring + NCIDEA fuels North Carolina
NEW Receives Ecosystem Grant To Start Entrepreneurship Program Network for Entrepreneurs in Wilmington has won a grant from NC IDEA to support a new program for local startups and entrepreneurs. NC IDEA announced the 17 organizations in the state chosen from 65 applicants that are recipients of the NC IDEA ECOSYSTEM grant. “There hasn’t been…
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Apply to Pitch at Venture Connect, 2021 Social Media Predictions w/Q3 on SOUTH POD + DIG Member News
APPLY NOW TO PITCH AT VENTURE CONNECT IN NC’s RTP Venture Connect Online is a digital experience that is designed to maximize the visibility of startups and help them build relationships with people (investors, peers, customers, and/or partners) who can help them scale. For 2021, Venture Connect has expanded their offerings to include live interviews…
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Apply Now to Blackbaud’s Social Good Startup Program, Nano Space Tech, Social Predictions for 2021 from Q3 on SOUTH POD
BLACKBAUD SOCIAL GOOD STARTUP PROGRAM SUPPORTS EMERGING COMPANIES TO DRIVE INNOVATION Blackbaud, the world’s leading cloud software company powering social good (and a DIG SOUTH partner), is accepting applications for the Blackbaud Social Good Startup Program, a unique, yearlong endeavor designed to drive innovation outside of the company’s walls that was announced at bbcon 2020. Through…
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Wild Pitch Wednesday TODAY, Real Time Animation in Fortnite & Warburg Pincus on SOUTH POD
Wild Pitch Wednesday on Zoom – TODAY! Featuring QuatroMoneyWednesday, November, 1811:00 AM ESTREGISTER 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 on their…
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QuatroMoney on Wild Pitch Next Week, Startups Feed Voters & FloWater on SOUTH POD
WILD PITCH WEDNESDAY ON ZOOMFeaturing QuatroMoneyWednesday, November, 1111:00 AM EST REGISTER NOW 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 on their…
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Social Media, Politics, and the Election on SOUTH POD + Keeping the Friday Night LightsOn & FloWater
Social Media, Politics, and the Election: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly In case you missed it, the fabulous first DIG NATION Fall Confab last Wednesday featured SocialFlow CEO Jim Anderson. Jim dug into some most peculiar data nuggets and dished a bit on what it tells us about the national election today. Check out the on-demand replay……
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490 BioTech wins Innov865 Alliance’s Startup Day; Dr. Peter Tsai is Recognized for Global Pandemic Support
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The startup 490 BioTech, which developed bioluminescent human cells to show changes in cellular health, won the Innov865 Judges’ Choice Award at Startup Day 2020 with a pitch that explained how its technology can improve development of pharmaceuticals. “Healthy happy cells are bright, sick cells go dim, and dead cells go dark,”…
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VentureSouth Recognized as a Top 10 Angel Group in North America
VentureSouth is proud to announce that it has been recognized as one of the top 10 angel investment groups in North America for the 3rd time. The ranking comes from the Angel Capital Association, which released its 2020 Angel Funders Report this week. VentureSouth was recognized in the study as a top 10 angel group…
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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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A Sportstech Event Unlike Any You’ve Seen Before
RIoT is a U.S. organization that helps entrepreneurial ecosystems flourish by coaching local businesses, startups and governments to embrace the modern data economy. RIoT hosts tech events around the US that provide hands-on learning and networking opportunities and runs startup accelerator programs in Raleigh and Wilson, NC. This November, RIoT turns the 2020 virtual event…
