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FreightWaves Raises $16M to Support Product and Commercial Development of its Carbon Intelligence Platform
05.19.2021
FreightWaves, the leading provider of supply chain market information, announced a $16 million capital raise to fund product expansion and go-to-market activities for FreightWaves Carbon Intelligence (FCI), the company’s new sustainability platform built on FreightWaves SONAR.
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AchieveIt Named One of Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces for 2021
05.12.2021
AchieveIt, a leading provider of cloud-based enterprise software for planning and execution, is named to Inc. magazine’s annual list of the Best Workplaces for 2021. Hitting newsstands May 18 in the May/June 2021 issue and as part of a prominent Inc.com feature.
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GreenPrint Expands Offerings with Creation of Labs Division and New Leadership Members
05.05.2021
GreenPrint, a global environmental technology company, announces the expansion of its business offerings with the formation of GreenPrint Labs, which will deliver comprehensive Environmental, Social and Governance strategies.
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Verusen CEO Paul Noble Writes a Forbes Article Discussing how Businesses can Accelerate the Digital Transformation Journey with AI
04.29.2021
When a container ship named the Ever Given got stuck in the Suez Canal, it was a human-interest story, especially when normal-sized construction vehicles that looked like Tonka Trucks tried to dig it out.
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Goodr Featured in Google’s 2020 Economic Impact Report
04.25.2021
Goodr is honored to be featured among the fifty-seven businesses in Google’s 2020 Economic Impact Report.
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Cresta Makes CB Insights AI 100 List Once Again
04.25.2021
Cresta makes the prestigious list CB Insights annual AI 100 list, representing one hundred of the most promising AI companies in the world picked from a pool of over six thousand companies, once again.
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Stratifyd Appoints Two New Business and CX Leaders to Board of Directors and Advisory Board
04.20.2021
Stratifyd, the leading provider of experience analytics solutions powered by Smart AI, is proud to announce the addition of two new appointments to the company's Board of Directors and Advisory Board, Lu Zhang, Founder and Managing Partner of Fusion Fund, and Mark Treschl, Chief Customer Officer at Quantum Metric.
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Virsec Introduces Virsec Security Platform 2.0
04.15.2021
Virsec announces the latest release of its security platform, Virsec Security Platform 2.0, a powerful solution for container workload protection with runtime visibility and zero-dwell-time defense throughout running container images, including binaries, libraries, interpreted code and memory.
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Intercontinental Exchange Mortgage Technology Sets Records with Experience 2021
04.15.2021
Intercontinental Exchange Mortgage Technology, part of Intercontinental Exchange, a leading global provider of data, technology and market infrastructure, shares that its annual Experience conference, which was conducted virtually this year, concluded as the company’s most successful event to-date, drawing over seven thousand registrations.
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Eastern Tabletop and Vyv Introduce CleanOhr Antimicrobial Lighting Products and Solutions
04.15.2021
Buffet equipment provider Eastern Tabletop has partnered with Vyv to introduce CleanOhr, a new line of products designed for hands-free microbial cleaning of commercial kitchens, buffet stations, and conference rooms.
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ICON and M3 Design Win “Best of Best” for Product Design Collaboration on Vulcan Printer
04.12.2021
ICON’s Vulcan construction system and 3D printer for homes, designed in collaboration with product development firm M3 Design, wins the Red Dot “Best of the Best” award in the Product Design category.
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Cresta CEO Discusses How the Automotive Industry Will Accelerate Online in 2021
04.08.2021
Cresta CEO Zayd Enam discusses how the pandemic is forcing the automotive industry to adopt a digital-first approach to sales & customer care in his latest Forbes article.
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Resilia Founder and CEO Sevetri Wilson Explained how Scaling a Nonprofit’s Impact Starts with its People
04.07.2021
Sevetri Wilson is Founder and CEO of Resilia - revolutionizing how nonprofits are created and maintained, and how enterprises scale impact.
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Pryon Named to the 2021 CB Insights List of Most Innovative Artificial Intelligence Startups
04.07.2021
Pryon, a venture focused on enterprise knowledge, is named to CB Insights’ AI 100, a ranking of the most promising private AI companies in the world.
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ICON Houses Homeless Man as First Person to Live in a 3D House
03.24.2021
On the outskirts of Austin, Texas, seventy-year-old Tim Shea settles into his four-hundred-square-foot home constructed by 3D printing, situated in the Community First! Village site comprised of houses for the chronically homeless.
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FreightWaves Announces Return of Its F3: Future of Freight Festival in 2021
03.24.2021
FreightWaves is excited to bring back in-person events bigger and better than ever before with its F3: Future of Freight Festival, which continues FreightWaves' tradition as the hottest FreightTech conference in the world, where industry leaders discuss the key factors impacting freight markets and review the latest trends pushing our industry forward.
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PICKUP Conducts PICKUP WARMUP Blanket Drive in Response to Winter Storm Uri
03.24.2021
The PICKUP Good Guys deliver one hundred five blankets and one hundred twenty-seven pairs of gloves and slipper socks to families and children who are experiencing power outages and no heat around Dallas, Fort Worth, Plano, Carrollton, Irving, and Arlington.
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Inclusively Partners with FIS
03.24.2021
Inclusively welcomes FIS, a Fortune 500 company and leading provider of technology solutions for merchants, banks, and capital markets firms globally, to its growing list of employers providing inclusive career opportunities.
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STORD CEO Sean Henry Recognized as Food Logistic’s 2021 Rock Star of Supply Chain
03.23.2021
STORD CEO and co-founder Sean Henry has been named a Rock Star of Supply Chain by Food Logistics, an award that recognizes the influential individuals whose achievements, hard work and vision have shaped the global cold food supply chain.
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Middleby Announces Partnership with Vyv to Offer Proprietary Antimicrobial Technology
03.18.2021
The Middleby Corporation announces its investment and license agreement with Vyv, for use of the company's proprietary antimicrobial LED technology within Middleby food processing, commercial, and residential products.
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Help Lightning Remote Assistance Software Now Available on Genesys AppFoundry
03.16.2021
Help Lightning, a provider of remote visual assistance software that enables a company’s experts to accelerate the transformation of their field service, announces its remote assistance software is now available on Genesys AppFoundry, allowing Genesys customers from all market segments to discover and rapidly deploy a broad range of solutions that make it easier to interact with consumers, engage employees, and optimize their workforce.
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Cresta Announces Cresta for Voice
03.16.2021
Cresta is excited to announce Cresta for Voice and bring Cresta’s real-time expertise AI to phone-based teams, allowing teams to benefit from real-time assistance and outcome-based expertise engine to drive productivity, improve customer experience, and ultimately deliver business outcomes.
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Inclusively Partners with Salesforce
03.15.2021
Inclusively welcomes Salesforce, which is making technology more accessible and helping create a future with greater opportunity and equality for all, to its growing list of employers providing inclusive career opportunities.
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Homee Ranked by Forbes as the #1 Startup Employer in the State of Florida
03.10.2021
Homee is ranked by Forbes as the #1 startup employer in the state of Florida, marking the second year in a row it receives the #1 honor in Florida.
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ICON Named to Fast Company’s Annual List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2021
03.09.2021
For the third year in a row, ICON is identified as one of the most innovative tech companies changing the urban planning and real estate market.
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Deep North Awarded a Contract from the Department of Homeland Security
03.02.2021
The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate Silicon Valley Innovation Program announces $196,880 in Phase 1 funding to Deep North to apply video analytics to airport screening processes to help minimize exposure and contact between Transportation Security Officers and passengers.
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Fluree Selected by Startup Grind Into Its 2021 Accelerate Cohort
02.21.2021
Fluree is excited to announce that it has been selected by the Startup Grind into its 2021 Accelerate Cohort for its Global Conference held between February 22 and 25.
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FreightWaves Hosts Global Supply Chain Week
02.21.2021
FreightWaves hosts an eight-day virtual Global Supply Chain Week covering different sectors of the supply chain universe and all of the important developments in trade relations.
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The Mom Project Featured in Startup Grind’s 2021 Global Conference
02.21.2021
Startup Grind’s Global Conference uses the power of online to bring education, access, opportunities, and inspiration to startups around the world, featuring The Mom Project in its virtual February global conference.
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Accenture Partners with The Mom Project to Carry Out Its Commitment to Hire One Hundred Fifty Mothers for Roles in Technology and Consulting
02.18.2021
Accenture is hiring one hundred fifty mothers for positions at its Midwest division as soon as possible, partnering with The Mom Project to screen applicants and put forward candidates for the roles and focusing on mothers who are unemployed and looking to make a career change.
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ICON Co-Founder and CEO Named to “TIME 100 Next”
02.17.2021
TIME Magazine announces Jason Ballard, co-founder and CEO of ICON, as one of the one hundred emerging leaders that are shaping the future of business, entertainment, sports, politics, health, science, activism, and more in the 2021 TIME 100 Next list.
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Goodr Sponsors Wellstar Mobile Market
02.16.2021
Goodr sponsors Wellstar on Wheels, a mobile market program that has expanded to feed more than seven hundred Metro Atlanta at-risk families every month across six Georgia counties.
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Goldman Sachs Issues $800 Million Sustainability Bond
02.12.2021
Goldman Sachs announces that it has settled an $800 million Sustainability Bond to accelerate climate transition and advance inclusive growth across nine core thematic areas: clean energy, sustainable transport, sustainable food and agriculture, waste and materials, ecosystem services, accessible and innovative healthcare, accessible and affordable education, financial inclusion, and communities.
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UnBlockEd, Led by University of Arizona Along with the Georgia Institute of Technology, Fluree, and the Gardner Institute, Selected as One of Four Blockchain Innovation Challenge Winners by American Council of Education to Expand Economic Opportunity to Underserved Learners
02.11.2021
The American Council of Education announces four winners for the first phase of the Blockchain Innovation Challenge, a $900,000 competition funded by the United States Department of Education to identify ways that blockchain technology can help disadvantaged learners gain more control over their educational records and more equitably access economic opportunity, selecting UnBlockEd, which will create an open transfer exchange that will empower college students by streamlining transfer credit recognition, leading to a more efficient and equitable transfer articulation process, as one of its four winners.
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Delta’s Vaccine Watch Tower Ensures Smooth COVID-19 Vaccine Shipments
02.08.2021
Delta's Vaccine Watch Tower, open twenty-four hours a day, enables end-to-end visibility for all shipments with centralized monitoring and customer reporting.
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Homee and Safeco Insurance Partner to Offer an Exclusive Benefit to Customers
02.03.2021
Homee announces a partnership with Safeco Insurance to offer an exclusive benefit to Safeco customers in Arizona whether involving an insurance claim or not.
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Inspire Brands Invests in Engage to Further Fuel Innovation in Atlanta
02.02.2021
Inspire Brands announces that it will be joining Engage and that in addition to its investment, Inspire Brands CEO Paul Brown is joining Engage's Board of Directors, while the company's Chief Growth Officer, Christian Charnaux, is joining Engage’s Advisory Board.
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STORD Introduces the Cloud Supply Chain, an End-to-End Logistics Services Seamlessly Accessed and Operated Through a Cloud-Based Platform
01.29.2021
STORD introduces its Cloud Supply Chain, offering world-class end-to-end supply chain services vertically integrated through a singular pay-as-you-go software, which enables shippers and supply chain partners across third-party logistics companies, manufacturers, and transportation carriers to seamlessly manage the flow of goods across all sales and fulfillment channels, with minimal impact to existing technology and processes.
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Porsche Ventures Invests in Leading AI Company Cresta, Planning Rollout on Digital Platforms
01.29.2021
Alongside Porsche Ventures' investment in Cresta, Cresta's software is rolled out across Porsche Cars North America and Porsche Financial Services online platforms to create a company-wide network that will enhance the customer support experience.
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2ULaundry Announces LaundroLab
01.29.2021
2ULaundry announces a new spin on franchising, Laundrolab, completely innovating the laundromat experience.
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Intrinio Releases Case Studies Collection
01.29.2021
Intrinio releases its brand-new case study collection showcasing how clients have used Intrinio’s data to power game-changing platforms.
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Pryon Introduces NLP Platform for Enterprise AI
01.29.2021
Pryon introduces a new, fully automated NLP platform for Enterprise AI that enables companies to add powerful AI capabilities to key initiatives without coding, special skills, or professional services.
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Verusen Secures $8 Million Series A to Fuel Intelligent, Connected Supply Chains
01.28.2021
Verusen announces an $8 million Series A co-led by Forte Ventures and Flyover Capital, with the round including new investments from BMW i Ventures and continued participation from Glasswing Ventures, Zetta Venture Partners, and Kubera VC.
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AchieveIt Awarded United States Air Force Advanced Battle Management System IDIQ Contract
01.28.2021
AchieveIt is awarded a $950,000,000 ceiling indefinite delivery and indefinite-quantity contract for the maturation, demonstration, and proliferation of capability across platforms and domains, leveraging open systems design, modern software, and algorithm development in order to enable Joint All Domain Command and Control.
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AchieveIt Reaches Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program “In Process” Designation
01.12.2021
AchieveIt Online announces that it has received the “In Process” designation from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its integrated plan management and execution software.
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Goodr Joins the Atlanta Hawks and StateFarm to Host its Popup Grocery Store for Five Hundred Families
01.12.2021
Goodr is excited to host its Popup Grocery Store, featuring free produce, shelf-stable items, meat, seafood, snacks, beverages, and more.
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Voxie Raises $6.7 Million Through Local Investors as Demand Grows
01.11.2021
Voxie raises a $6.7 million Series A round from a team of Atlanta investors, which will help the company keep up with exploding demand.
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PICKUP Founder Brenda Stoner Featured in Dallas Innovates’s Annual Magazine, “The Resilience Issue”
12.22.2020
Pickup founder Brenda Stoner is featured in Dallas Innovates’s Annual Magazine, “The Resilience Issue,” where she is profiled with female entrepreneurs who are shaking up the future of startup investment in Dallas-Fort Worth.
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The Mom Project, a Job Site for Moms Returning to Work, Nabs $8 Million from Initialized and More
12.17.2020
Chicago-based startup The Mom Project, a platform specifically built to help female knowledge workers find jobs after pausing to raise kids, picks up a Series A of $8 million that it plans to use to bring its job marketplace to more cities and to expand the kinds of services it offers to make the challenge of juggling work and parenthood easier.
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Chick-fil-A Recognizes Thirty-Four Nonprofit Organizations as 2021 True Inspiration Winners
12.15.2020
Chick-fil-A is honored to announce the nonprofit recipients of the 2021 True Inspiration Awards, who served their communities in the areas of education, hunger, and homelessness.
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Delta Installs Vyv’s High-Tech Antimicrobial Lighting to Better Protect Airplane Lavatories
10.29.2020
Beginning in mid-November with the Delta 757-200 fleet, customers notice more aircraft outfitted with Vyv, since after installation on this initial fleet, Delta plans to conduct further tests in 2021 with the hope of expanding installation in the future.
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Papa John’s Raises More Than $3 Million with the Shaq-a-Roni Pizza, Which Will Help Fund Goodr
10.08.2020
Goodr, which provides direct support to families, seniors and nonprofits, receives funding from Shaq-a-Roni sales to continue support of efforts to reach food insecure communities, especially challenged during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Verady’s Ledgible Receives Award for Blockchain Innovation
10.08.2020
Verady is pleased to announce that the Ledgible platform is the 2020 recipient of the Gold Future of Digital Award for Blockchain in Banking Innovation from Juniper Research.
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ICON Launches Project Olympus
10.01.2020
ICON receives funding from NASA and launches "Project Olympus" to reach for the stars with an off-world construction system for the Moon.
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Verusen Works with Georgia-Pacific to Get Paper Towels Back in Stores
09.29.2020
Local logistics startup Verusen fortuitously begins work with Georgia-Pacific right before the pandemic to give a more precise picture of its materials supply chain and help stores restock paper towels.
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The Mom Project Will Offer Tech Scholarships to Ten Thousand Women of Color
09.24.2020
The Mom Project announces another initiative aimed at helping working mothers weather the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Resilia Featured in Forbes’ Cloud 100 Rising Stars of 2020
09.16.2020
The Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Stars recognizes twenty startups on the cutting edge of the industry, all with the potential to be among tomorrow’s top private cloud companies, featuring women-led startup Resilia.
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A Tiny Austin Company, ICON, Wants to Disrupt the Trillion-Dollar Construction Industry with Its 3D-Printed Homes
09.11.2020
Vulcan II, Jason Ballard's giant printer, which his startup, ICON, devised as a radical new way to construct homes, squirts out continuous beads of concrete that stack up to create walls, in whichever configuration a builder may want and can spit out the walls of an entire small house in just twenty-four hours.
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How Atlanta-Based Logistics Startup STORD is Building a Global Distribution Network
09.11.2020
On this show, the Atlanta Small Business Network sits down with Sean Henry, founder and CEO of the cutting-edge logistics company, STORD.
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Pryon Featured in 2021 Best Tech Startups in Raleigh
09.08.2020
The Tech Tribune compiles the very best tech startups in Raleigh, North Carolina, featuring AI company Pryon.
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FLEETCOR and GreenPrint Introduce First United States Fleet Card with 100% Tailpipe Emissions Offset
09.01.2020
FLEETCOR, a global leader in business payments, and GreenPrint announce the launch of the Fuelman Clean Advantage Fleet Card, the first United States card that automatically offsets 100% of tailpipe emissions from every gallon of fuel purchased.
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GreenPrint Corp Named to the 2019 Inc. 5000 List, Ranking Seventy-First
08.14.2020
For the first time in the company's history, GreenPrint Corp earns a spot on the Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the nation's fastest-growing privately held companies, ranking seventy-first on the venerable list and second in the Energy category.
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On-Demand Warehouse Startup STORD Acquires Cove Logistics as Supply Chains Bounce Back from Pandemic Disruption
07.02.2020
Atlanta-based STORD, a cloud-based warehousing platform, spends months finalizing plans to buy transportation provider Cove Logistics to build out its freight capabilities.
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Fluree Blockchain Startup Reveals New Partnerships and Integrations
06.24.2020
Fluree, a blockchain-based startup from North Carolina, reveals multiple partnerships and blockchain-related “integrations,” using this growth to increase its product development and solidify its place in the market.
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Goodr’s Delivery of Meals to Quarantined Families in Atlanta, Starting with Ten Deliveries a Night and Now Delivering Over Two Thousand Five Hundred a Week, Shows Need for a National Solution
06.08.2020
Jasmine Crowe, founder and CEO of Goodr, an Atlanta-based company that fights food waste and food insecurity by picking up surplus foods from local restaurants and stores and delivering them to hungry families, knows that millions more across the United States are still going hungry and is calling on government leaders for national reform to fix our food-waste problem.
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The Mom Project Launches $500,000 Fund to Keep Moms Employed During COVID-19 Pandemic
04.29.2020
Chicago startup The Mom Project wants to support "family-friendly" businesses with a new $500,000 fund that aims to boost employment and support companies during the coronavirus crisis.
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Serena Williams Joins Forces with The Mom Project to Help Mothers Access Better Career Opportunities
02.17.2020
Serena Williams announces that she is becoming a strategic adviser for Chicago-based startup, The Mom Project, which is a platform that aims to eliminate the bias that currently exists around hiring mothers by connecting mothers with quality career opportunities.
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Serena Williams Wants More Companies to Hire Mothers and Joins The Mom Project to Make It Happen
02.13.2020
Serena Williams announces that she will serve as a strategic advisor for the Mom Project, a platform that connects mothers with employment opportunities.
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World’s First 3D Printed Neighborhood Being Built In Mexico by New Story and ICON
02.06.2020
Nonprofit New Story teams up with tech company ICON to build the world’s first 3D printed neighborhood as part of their project working to combat global homelessness.
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Troy Startup Vyv Inks Deal with Delta to Bring Bacteria-Fighting Lights to Planes
01.24.2020
Vyv, the Troy-based company that designs lights meant to continuously kill bacteria, works with Delta Air Lines to bring its antimicrobial LED lights to airplanes.
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Startup 2ULaundry Delivers Clean Washing Right to Your Doorstep
12.10.2019
A startup out of Charlotte, 2ULaundry, that will do laundry for you gets ready to launch in the Triangle soon.
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DEVCON Puts Down Roots with New Memphis Headquarters as It Pivots Its Cybersecurity Product
11.04.2019
This October, cybersecurity startup DEVCON announces that it will be returning to Memphis to build its headquarters there while keeping offices in Atlanta and London.
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Robots Are Coming but They Will Not Look Like How We Imagine According to Raleigh AI Expert and CEO of Pryon
10.04.2019
In as little as five years, says one Raleigh expert and CEO of Pryon, AI assistants will be working side-by-side with you, giving you “superhuman” powers by performing support tasks and processing the ever-multiplying reams of data that threatens productivity.
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Moms Organize to Distribute “Baby on Board” Buttons to Pregnant Subway Passengers with Support from The Mom Project After City Inaction
09.05.2019
Moms in Chicago take matters into their own hands after waiting months for promised action from the Chicago Transit Authority to distribute “baby on board” buttons to pregnant passengers on the city’s subway trains to encourage fellow riders to give up their seat, planning to start handing out their own “baby on board” buttons to pregnant passengers next week, with The Mom Project funding and organizing the initiative.
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Pryon CEO Wants to Build Something Better After Helping Create Amazon’s Alexa
08.05.2019
Pryon CEO Igor Jablokov works on building a reliable and trustworthy voice recognition platform that business leaders can use to become more efficient with their time and in making decisions.
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The AI Entrepreneur Who Helped Build Alexa, CEO of Pryon, Begins His Next Venture in Raleigh
08.02.2019
AI innovator Igor Jablokov, whose first startup Yap was bought by Amazon to build Alexa, now has a new Raleigh-based startup named Pryon with a focus on utilizing AI in the workplace, which has raised $24.5 million so far.
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Fast Radius CEO Lou Rassey Named to Crain’s Chicago Tech 50 List
07.17.2019
Fast Radius co-founder and chief executive officer Lou Rassey is named to Crain's Chicago Tech 50 list, which honors pioneers and leaders in Chicago's technology community.
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Chattanooga’s FreightWaves Grows Reach with Acquisition of Global Shipping Publication
07.03.2019
In its second acquisition in as many months, FreightWaves buys a longtime publication focusing on global shipping as the Chattanooga company continues to extend its reach.
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Verady Announces Ledgible is the First Certified Xero App Partner to Offer Seamless Integration of Cryptocurrency Transactions to Xero
06.19.2019
Verady, the leading cryptocurrency accounting and audit company, announces at Xerocon 2019 that it has become a certified app partner with Xero, the global small business platform.
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Bee Downtown’s CEO Turns Passion for Bees Into Company Nearing $1 Million in Revenue
05.08.2019
At twenty-two, fresh out of North Carolina State University, Leigh-Kathryn Bonner launches her urban beekeeping startup, Bee Downtown, to help make a small difference in the dangerous global decline of bees.
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TCPoly’s Unique Plastic Filament is a Gamechanger for 3D Printing Manufacturing
04.29.2019
TCPoly CTO of materials and 3D printing services Thomas Bougher and CEO Matt Smith think they can start to change traditional manufacturing with a unique material they developed specifically with 3D printing in mind.
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Intrinio Secures $5 Million in Series A Financing Round Led by Nyca Partners
04.25.2019
Intrinio announces that it has raised $5 million in a Series A financing round led by Nyca Partners, with participation from existing investors, including Bascom Ventures and VilCap Investments.
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Ivaldi Group Now ISO 9001:2015 Certified
04.17.2019
In less than 10 months, California-based startup, Ivaldi Group, becomes ISO 9001:2015 certified, an internationally recognized standard that allows for better process integration, customer satisfaction, and continuous improvement by certifying a company’s quality management system.
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STORD Raises $12.3 Million to Digitize Warehousing and Distribution
04.17.2019
STORD, an Atlanta, Georgia-based provider of freight and warehousing services, announces that it has raised $12.3 million in Series A funding led by Kleiner Perkins, which comes on the heels of a seed round totaling $2.4 million and brings its total raised to $15 million.
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UPS Leads $48 Million Funding Round for 3D Printing Startup Fast Radius
04.16.2019
UPS leads a $48 million Series B funding round for 3D printing startup Fast Radius after working with the startup since early 2016.
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ENGAGE Talent Joins Engage Venture Fund’s Cohort of Investment Companies
04.11.2019
ENGAGE Talent, an AI company that combines market intelligence, passive candidate engagement, and talent retention into a single talent recruitment and engagement engine, announces that it has been selected by Engage as a member of its cohort of investment companies.
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Verusen Selected for Dubai Future Accelerators Program in the United Arab Emirates
04.10.2019
Verusen, selected as one of seven startups out of two hundred forty-five global applications, collaborates with Dubai Future Accelerators and works with Emirates Airlines to build the data foundation for world-class global supply chains.
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Georgia Tech Logistics Startup STORD Raises $12.4 Million
04.06.2019
STORD, an Atlanta-based warehousing and distribution startup spun out of Georgia Tech, raises $12.4 million following a $2.6 million funding round one year ago.
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Fast Radius Raises $48 Million to Expand Platform for Production-Grade Additive Manufacturing with Funding from UPS
04.02.2019
Fast Radius, a leading manufacturing technology company, announces that it has raised $48 million in a Series B funding round led by UPS, with strong insider participation from Drive Capital.
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Peerfit Snags $18 Million in Latest Funding Round
03.19.2019
Peerfit, the Tampa-based digital health startup, secures another multimillion-dollar funding round from a Silicon Valley investor.
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There Will Soon be a Whole Community of Ultra-Low-Cost 3D-Printed Homes with Help from ICON
03.11.2019
Over the past year, in a lab in Austin, a team of engineers and materials scientists from New Story and ICON tweak and test the design of the “Vulcan II,” a massive, thirty-three-by-eleven-foot machine that can 3D print the frame of a small house in less than a day, which will later this year begin printing a neighborhood of more than fifty homes.
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FreightWaves Secures $20 Million in Series B Funding from Corporate and Strategic Investors
02.27.2019
FreightWaves, a Chattanooga, Tennesee-based provider of data and news for global freight markets, raises $20 million in a Series B financing round.
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FreightWaves Raises More Equity and Attracts Top Investors as It Reaches to Become Billion-Dollar Company in Chattanooga
02.25.2019
FreightWaves announces that it has raised another $21 million in equity capital with investments from Hearst Ventures, the venture capital arm of the newspaper and media company, Prologis Ventures, the venture capital arm of one of the top global logistics real estate companies, and Rise of the Rest, the venture arm of Internet venture capitalist and AOL founder Steve Case.
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How FreightWaves’ City of Origin Under 200,000 People Is Outperforming Most Startup Hubs
02.11.2019
Analytics company FreightWaves in Chattanooga, a small city generating close to $2 billion in startup exits in the last five years, uses trucking data to inform Wall Street and large businesses on how to make decisions.
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The Mom Project Partners with UrbanSitter to Provide Moms Free Childcare to Attend Job Interviews
02.04.2019
The Mom Project, the leading career destination for moms, announces a new partnership with UrbanSitter, an online and mobile service that connects parents and babysitters through people they know, which will give moms access to free babysitting when they are interviewing for jobs.
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ThingTech Raises $4 Million Series A to Continue Cornering The IoT Asset Tracking Marketplace
01.24.2019
Atlanta-based IoT startup ThingTech raises a $4 million Series A round led by BIP Capital, with funding boosting its sales, marketing, and customer success functions.
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Join the Next Manufacturing Revolution with Impacts from UPS and Fast Radius
01.10.2019
The findings of the World Economic Forum and McKinsey & Company underscore that the digital revolution has arrived, with UPS and Fast Radius, a provider of comprehensive additive manufacturing solutions in Chicago, building a greenfield site to support new business models, reducing time-to-market by 89% and increasing first-pass yield by 95%.
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The Enterprise Future for Voice-Activated AI with Pryon CEO Igor Jablokov
12.26.2018
Pryon CEO Igor Jablokov discusses the future of artificial intelligence and natural language processing with Bloomberg's Brad Stone on "Bloomberg Technology."
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Devon Raises $4.5 Million to Beef Up Adtech Security
12.19.2018
Adtech cybersecurity company Devcon announces that it has raised $4.5 million in seed funding.
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Former FBI Cyber Squad Supervisor Michael F. D. Anaya Joins DEVCON to Attack $19 Billion Cyber Ad Threat
12.19.2018
DEVCON, a cybersecurity software company dedicated to defeating ad fraud and preserving independent journalism, announces that one of the nation’s foremost authorities on cyber crime, Michael F.D. Anaya, has joined its team as the Head of Global Cyber Investigations and Government Relations.
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DEVCON Raises $4.5M to Fight Growing Epidemic of Cyber Fraud and Ad Theft
12.19.2018
DEVCON, a cybersecurity software company dedicated to defeating ad fraud and preserving independent journalism, announces that it has closed a seed round of funding led by Las Olas VC with participation from individual investors including Paul Judge, cofounder of TechSquare Labs and executive chairman of Pindrop, and Adam Ghetti, founder of Ionic Security.
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The Mom Project Raises Another $8 Million
12.17.2018
The Mom Project, a two-year-old startup aimed at helping employers better utilize the often underemployed pool of talent that leaves the workforce after having kids, raises another $8 million.
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Warehousing Tech Startup STORD Moves to Double Headcount, Hiring Over Twenty, Following Its Seed Round and with the Addition of Strategic Investment from Tom Noonan
12.17.2018
STORD, the networked warehousing and distribution partner on a mission to help modern shippers distribute products brilliantly, announces plans to hire over twenty following its April 2018 seed funding with the addition of a strategic follow on investment from Tom Noonan, finalized in June 2018.
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Accenture Opens Innovation Hub in Atlanta’s Technology Square, Leveraging Its Relationship with Engage Ventures
12.12.2018
Accenture opens a new innovation hub in Atlanta as a destination where clients can co-innovate with their Accenture teams to ideate, rapidly prototype, and then scale innovative products and services for the digital economy.
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Dr. David Nahamoo Joins Pryon as Chief Technology Officer to Accelerate Delivery of Company’s Augmented Intelligence Platform
12.04.2018
Pryon, an enterprise AI and ML company, announces that Dr. David Nahamoo has joined the company as Chief Technology Officer and Head of Research and Development.
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FreightWaves Chattanooga Trucking Museum to Open Downtown
12.02.2018
FreightWaves plans a museum and library dedicated to entrepreneurs and companies.
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AchieveIt Completes Exclusive Atlanta Venture Fund Program
11.27.2018
AchieveIt Online, a leading provider of cloud-based enterprise software for planning and execution, announces that it has completed the Engage Ventures 2018 go-to-market growth program.
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3D Printing an End to Homelessness with ICON
11.15.2018
ICON works with New Story, a housing nonprofit focused on Latin America and the Caribbean, to bring Vulcan to regions in need of cheap, durable housing solutions.
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Last-Mile Furniture Delivery Company PICKUP Raises $5 Million in Latest Funding Round
11.15.2018
PICKUP, a last-mile delivery service for furniture, completes a $5 million round of venture capital funding that will speed up expansion of its operations into new markets.
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Dallas Tech Company PICKUP Helping Retailers Fight Amazon Set to Double Employee Base
11.14.2018
Pickup, which handles large-item deliveries, aims to grow after announcing a $5 million investment.
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Pryon, an Enterprise AI and NLP Startup, Emerges from Stealth Mode and Announces $4.5 Million in Seed Funding
11.13.2018
Pryon, an enterprise AI and NLP startup, announces it is coming out of stealth mode and has a vision for AI in the enterprise that all humans should be excited about.
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Pryon Raises $4.5 Million for Enterprise-Focused Augmented Intelligence Platform
11.13.2018
Pryon announces a $4.5 million first funding round led by Greycroft Partners, with participation from Two Sigma Ventures and Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund.
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The Entrepreneur Behind Alexa’s Tech, the CEO of Pryon, Is Back with an AI Assistant for Companies
11.13.2018
With a new startup, Pryon, Igor Jablokov aims to create a voice-based AI cloud platform for employees at large companies.
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PICKUP Raises $5 Million to Meet Demand for Instant Delivery of Big and Heavy Retail Items
11.13.2018
PICKUP closes a $5 million funding round led by TDF Ventures and Noro-Moseley Partners, with funds used to accelerate market expansion, grow the product platform, and add staffing in key areas.
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Amari Ruff Builds His Trucking Company, Sudu, Into a Multimillion-Dollar Business
10.31.2018
Amari Ruff starts Sudu, a trucking company based out of Atlanta, Georgia, in 2015, making the decision to leave his job in the telecom industry with aspirations of building a company with growth-potential in the trucking and tech industry.
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Engage Ventures Featured in Atlanta Groundbreaker Awards
10.29.2018
Engage Ventures is a hybrid venture-capital fund and business accelerator founded last year to bring together growth-stage startups with the money, experience, resources, and leadership of eleven Fortune 500 businesses.
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Thiago Olson Has the Financial Fuel for Change
10.25.2018
It may seem counterintuitive to include a decidedly for-profit company among philanthropic leaders, but Engage Ventures Managing Director Thiago Olson makes a strong case, stating that the better and faster startups can grow, the stronger opportunity they'll have for giving back in their own communities and beyond.
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DEVCON, Local Media Association, and AdHack.org Combine to Launch Largest Study of Ad Fraud Targeting Local Media Companies
10.22.2018
DEVCON, Local Media Association (LMA), and AdHack.org announce plans to collaborate with local media publishers to create the largest ever study of ad fraud in the publishing industry.
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