Tag: business
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3D ORGAN PRINTING STARTUP IN NC RAISES $15M, ATLANTA EDTECH TEAM TACKLES TEACHER BURNOUT + eMYRge HAPPY HOUR FEB 17, 5-7PM
ATLANTA EDTECH TEAM TACKLES TEACHER BURNOUT ATLANTA – Since then the teacher shortage has reached epidemic proportions itself. A recent survey suggests half of all teachers are thinking about quitting, and many of those were considering leaving the profession altogether. “This crisis is not going away and is going to get worse,” TARA founder Ian Cohen said,…
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LaunchBio ‘Invest in Cures’ event set for Feb 24, UGA Seeks to Lead in Electric Mobility Space + JRS Coding School & DIG SOUTH hiring
LAUNCHBIO’S ‘INVEST IN CURES’ EVENT SET FOR FEB 24 RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – North Carolina’s rising profile as a leading cell- and gene-therapy hub will be well recognized Feb. 24 at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center, as LaunchBio’s signature Invest in Cures forum again convenes leaders of major disease foundations and social venture funds. The…
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Charleston Tech Center Lands MS Software Developer, LoanWell has a Better FinTech Solution to Help Small Businesses Access Capital + SCRA Webinar: Implementing Proactive Cybersecurity
CHARLESTON TECH CENTER LANDS MISSISSIPPI SOFTWARE DEVELOPER CHARLESTON – A Mississippi-based software provider plans to hire engineers to staff an office it is opening in Charleston’s upper peninsula. Camgian said this week that its new space at the Charleston Tech Center on Morrison Drive will be its fourth location for the company, which has similar outposts in…
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Atlanta Startup Village Host Announced, UNC Researchers Develop App to Fight Tropical Disease, Wild Pitch Deadline Tomorrow + SCRA Webinar: Implementing Proactive Cybersecurity
???? Hey, Startups – Raising capital? And tired of being stuck in sterile Zoom pitches? Make your case in person in beautiful Charleston. But don’t delay, tomorrow, Feb. 2, may be your last chance to apply to dance on the Wild Pitch Stage at DIG SOUTH Tech Summit. 1200+ attendees, 250+ investors, 250+ startups. Limited slots…
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Founder OF Travelsist Gets Startup Off Ground from Inside Airport, Duke Bio-Med Engineers Report Advance in Fighting Kidney Disease + College of Charleston Establishes Electrical Engineering Major
FOUNDER OF TRAVELSIST GETS STARTUP OFF THE GROUND FROM INSIDE AIRPORT ATLANTA – Beyond moving 275,000 passengers a day, Hartfield-Jackson International Airport is home to a new set of TravelTech entrepreneurs. One such founder is Veronica Woodruff, who joined the startup world after working in the airline industry as a flight attendant. She saw first-hand the gap in…
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Atlanta-Based AURIGN’s Tech Gets Musicians Paid, Report Urges more Solar Power Installation on Big Box Stores + Not too late to apply for Wild Pitch
ATLANTA-BASED AURIGN HAS TECH SOLUTION TO GET MUSICIANS PAID ATLANTA – Georgia State grad Robert Hatcher recognized an inherent problem in the music industry while building his previous startup, Soundcollide. Musicians, agents, and labels have traditionally struggled to figure out the equity stakes associated with each published song. That process is further complicated by new streaming platforms…
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NOLA-Based WRSTBND Talks Innovation Inside the Festival Scene, Terradepth Hires New COO + DIG NATION Member Jim Roberts Featured on WRALTechWire
NEW ORLEANS-BASED WRSTBND TALKS INNOVATION INSIDE THE FESTIVAL SCENE NEW ORLEANS – EventTech was a natural fit for Conway Solomon. As a tech enthusiast, he started working at his brother’s New Orleans-based event production company back in high school and the space immediately pulled him in. As interest grew in their event management platform, the team decided…
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Blackbaud Inc. Buys Ed-Tech, EverFi, Daphne-based Phronesis AI completes $300,000 seed round for covid-19 drug + DIG SOUTH is Hiring a Sales Director!
BLACKBAUD INC. BUYS ED-TECHCOMPANY, EVERFI WASHINGTON D.C. – Ed-Tech Aquired. D.C. ed-tech company EverFi Inc. has been sold for $750 million, less than six months after dispatching its higher-education business for $100 million. Blackbaud Inc., a Charleston, South Carolina, cloud software company, announced Monday it bought EverFi in a cash-and-stock deal “subject to certain customary adjustments.”…
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Charlotte Startup Ekos Raises a Glass with $21 Million Series B Round, Techstars Relocating to Birmingham & Secures Deal with Alabama Power + Final Days to Apply for Wild Pitch
CHARLOTTE STARTUP EKOS RAISES A GLASS WITH $21 MILLION SERIES B ROUND CHARLOTTE –Crafty Software Solutions. The Ekos team has transformed drastically since the Charlotte-based, beverage industry-focused SaaS startup raised a $8 million Series A round in 2019 from Atlanta-based Noro-Moseley Partners. The team grew from 30 employees to 80 with significant growth on the product…
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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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Startup IRONSCALES Contributes to Atlanta’s Cybersecurity Hub Growth, Investors to Convert ‘Big Box’ Store in Garner to Life Science Space + 665 JD Hosts Holiday Party 2021!
STARTUP IRONSCALES CONTRIBUTES TO ATLANTA’S CYBERSECURITY HUB GROWTH ATLANTA – The FBI can thank an Atlanta-based startup for helping it stay safe earlier this year. When hackers successfully got into the FBI servers and sent malicious emails that looked like they came from employees in November, it was cybersecurity company IRONSCALES that detected the attack and…
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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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SC to be US Launch Site for Google’s New Undersea Cable, National Supply Chain Stress Creates Opportunity for Local Innovation + Catch Talent CEO Featured on CODE/+/TRUST Podcast
SC to be US Launch Site for Google’s New Undersea Cable MYRTLE BEACH, SC – Wired Wines. Google has picked the Grand Strand as the East Coast launch site for an underwater cable that will run thousands of miles along the Atlantic seafloor, from South Carolina to South America. The internet search and advertising giant said Nov.…
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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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U.S. Space Force Recognizes Georgia Tech as New Strategic Partner, Ekos Launches All-In-One Platform that Connects Brewers Directly with Customers + TriNet Featured on HR Service Market Research Report and Forecast to 2028
U.S. Space Force Recognizes Georgia Tech as New Strategic Partner ATLANTA – Student Space Force. Georgia Tech and the U.S. Space Force launched a strategic partnership to develop a high-caliber aerospace workforce and collaborate on advanced aerospace research. As part of a comprehensive agreement, the two parties signed a memorandum of understanding, making Georgia Tech the…
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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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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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GeneCapture Secures Government Contracts and Private Funding, Fleurix Returns to Charlotte After COVID-19 Hiatus + Abby Leibowitz Featured on SOUTH POD
GeneCapture Secures Government Contracts and Private Funding HUNTSVILLE, AL – Government Genealogy. GeneCapture is looking to make headway after receiving two investments from private and government sources. In August, the company won contracts from two Department of Defense agencies totaling $2.1 million to prepare its portable rapid pathogen detection technology for independent and in-field testing. This…
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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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Intuit to Buy Mailchimp, Startup Creating Water from Air Moves to Tampa, Abby Leibowitz Appears on SOUTH POD
Intuit to buy Mailchimp for $12 billion. ATLANTA – Bringing platforms together. Intuit, the parent company of TurboTax and QuickBooks, will acquire Mailchimp, a company best known as a provider of email marketing services, the companies announced on Monday. The cash-and-stock deal, which is subject to regulatory approvals, will value Mailchimp at about $12 billion. The deal…
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Charleston Digital Corridor Announces Six New Companies At The Flagships
The Charleston Digital Corridor announced that six tech companies have commenced operations at the Flagship tech-focused business incubator facilities located in downtown Charleston over the past three months. Of the six companies, five have expanded to Charleston from across the United States. These companies join twenty-five other companies currently in residence at the Flagships and include: Workiva (Ames,…
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Blackbaud and Microsoft to Strengthen Strategic Partnership to Digitally Transform the Nonprofit Sector
Baltimore, MD (October 18, 2017) — As part of bbcon 2017, Blackbaud (Nasdaq: BLKB), the world’s leading cloud software company powering social good, and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT), plan to expand their partnership in support of their mutual goals to digitally transform the nonprofit sector. The nonprofit sector represents the third largest workforce behind retail and manufacturing…
