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Bill Nussey Joins Engage and Tech Square Ventures
08.26.2022
We couldn’t be more excited to announce that Bill Nussey has joined the Engage and Tech Square Ventures team as a Partner.
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Instant Financial Study Shows On-demand Pay is a Major Recruitment and Retention Factor with Younger Generations
08.08.2022
Instant Financial, the pioneer of fee-free on-demand pay solutions, partnered with the Center for Generational Kinetics, to study the effects and perceptions of wage frequency on the financial security and job requirements of the next wave of young professionals entering the labor market: Generation Z (Gen Z). With a desire to have more control over their personal finances, the study found that 87% of Gen Z would be more interested in applying for a job that pays them the same day they work. And with Gen-Zers set to hold up to 36% of the workforce by the end of this year, employers will need to take note of their demands in order to recruit and retain this generation.
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Wripple Acquires Keystroke Consulting Team
07.29.2022
With the close of its seed round, Wripple brings on board Atlanta-based dev shop Keystroke Consulting. Keystroke has been the sole partner building Wripple’s two-sided talent platform over the last two years. It’s been a match made in heaven and the newly combined team’s plan continues, on an expedited path, to build a talent platform like no other.
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Verusen Launches Trusted Network to Overcome Data Disparity and Reduce Risk Across the Supply Chain
07.28.2022
Verusen, a leader in materials intelligence today announced Trusted Network, the first Supply Chain and materials management-centric, AI-driven platform to provide MRO supply and material visibility for a wide range of Fortune 500 customers. The most difficult challenge for suppliers/manufacturers is identifying strategic sourcing opportunities across multiple facilities. Procurement and operations leaders need increased visibility into their data and to be able to trust their data is correct in real-time. They must have complete knowledge of supplier lead times and spending across a range of facilities to understand purchase behavior. They want to allocate their inventories better and reduce costs to remove the risk of undelivered goods.
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Stord Launches Stord One Commerce
07.28.2022
tord, the Cloud Supply Chain leader, expands its Cloud Supply Chain offering with Stord One Commerce, a vendor- and sales channel-agnostic software platform that helps brands connect, orchestrate, and optimize their entire supply chains. Most brands still struggle to piece together disparate logistics solutions and disconnected technology across providers, resulting in siloed data, costly software implementations, and complex integrations. Stord One Commerce connects to brands’ existing systems through a marketplace of 100+ standard integrations, from ERPs and online marketplaces to retail partners and warehouse management systems, providing an unmatched ability to analyze and optimize their processes from one platform.
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Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute Highlights Engage’s Ninth Cohort of High-growth Startups
07.27.2022
Engage, the Enterprise Innovation Institute program that connects high-growth startups with Fortune 500 decision-makers, recently celebrated its ninth cohort at the 2022 Spring Executive Reception.
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Verusen’s CEO Paul Noble Writes a Forbes Article: Energy, Oil, And Gas: The Network Visibility Imperative
07.27.2022
U.S. and global oil, gas, energy, and utility companies are looking at challenges in their markets, rarely seen in recent years. The complexity of delivering energy to previous high standards is staggering. Power grids are becoming increasingly unstable, and the costs associated with expanding capacity are overwhelming. Demand regularly surges for energy, yet the infrastructure and business cost of ramping up quickly to meet it has become increasingly prohibitive, causing prices to skyrocket. Uneven energy demand stemming from the pandemic, supply chain issues, and pricing pressures are affecting these firms in unpredictable ways.
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Inclusively Celebrates its 2nd Anniversary
07.26.2022
Today celebrates two years since Inclusively was co-founded by CEO Charlotte Dales and COO Sarah Bernard and the 32nd Anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). We thought we’d check in to see how they've experienced the landscape of disability inclusion evolving since they started the company. Below are excerpts from our interview.
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Qualytics is Highlighted by Data Magazine as One of 12 most Innovative Analytics Startups in Baltimore.
07.24.2022
These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Analytics industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
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Pryon is Named One of the Leading AI Companies in Intelligent Knowledge Management in 2022
07.08.2022
Pryon is an industry-disrupting AI platform that is bridging the gap between enterprise content and the people who need it—to boost organizational productivity and elevate customer and employee experience. Companies have invested fortunes in building up content and documentation about everything from employee HR policies and benefits to technical specifications and product guides—essential information for running IT and HR help desks and customer contact centers. Until now, that content has only lived in static form, locked within siloed content repositories and applications like SharePoint, Zendesk, and ServiceNow, requiring workers to spend thousands of hours per year hunting for the precise information they need to service employees and customers.
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Ledgible Closes $20M Series A Round with Key Institutional and Strategic Investors
07.07.2022
Ledgible Crypto Tax & Accounting raised a $20M Series A, led by EJF Capital LLC, joined by JAM FINTOP, Thomson Reuters, TTV Capital, Fenbushi Capital, Commerce Ventures, Nathan McCauley, and Perkins Coie LLP!
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Birdstop celebrated 18 months of testing with the BATS UAS program at Byron and Buchanan Airports with an Aviation Advisory Committee meeting.
06.30.2022
An Advanced Aviation Advisory Committee (AAAC) meeting was held at the William F. Bolger Center in Potomac, MD on June 30, 2022, from 10:00AM to 2:30 PM EST. This meeting was held in a hybrid format and live streamed across FAA social media for the general public. The full meeting is archived on the FAA’s YouTube channel.
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Itential’s Co-Founder and CTO was featured on IDG Connect’s CTO Sessions
06.29.2022
Chris Wade co-founded Itential in 2014 to simplify and accelerate the adoption of network automation and to transform network operations practices. Using a model-based approach, Wade leads the innovation and development of the company’s flagship software portfolio of dynamic network automation applications.
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Sounding Board’s Founder and CEO Christine Tao Interviewed by TechCrunch
06.28.2022
Sounding Board’s founder and CEO Christine Tao was interviewed by TechCrunch where she shared about coaching and navigating fundraising as a female founder. She talked to Darrell and Jordan about difficulties she and her co-founder faced while fundraising and why she believes so deeply in the power of a good executive coach.
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Vyv Antimicrobial Light Recognized Among Newsweek’s “Best Infection Prevention Products 2021”
06.24.2022
Newsweek just announced the ‘Best Infection Prevention Products 2021’ list to highlight companies whose products are “most promising for helping patients and the healthcare workforce avoid infection.” Vyv (formerly Vital Vio) is proud to have their antimicrobial LED light technology included on the list in the category of ‘Lighting Disinfectants’. The list was developed by a selection committee that evaluated each product using four criteria: effectiveness, safety (to both patients and healthcare workers), successful real-world implementation, and the stability of the company (to support future implementations). The committee used sources such as evaluations from the FDA or EPA, published research studies, case studies from hospitals and healthcare facilities, and other public sources.
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Inclusively Welcomes Delta Air Lines, now hiring on their platform.
06.24.2022
Welcome Delta Air Lines to Inclusively! Delta is committed to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and working to close representation gaps, strengthen their inclusive culture, cultivate a sense of belonging and advance equitable opportunities for all employees to succeed. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Deep North Embarks on a partnership with Dell Technologies.
06.24.2022
Deep North is proud to work with Dell Technologies to offer its video analytics platform to help provide retailers with real-time insights to better understand human behavior and the customer journey in the retail environment. By understanding how shoppers are interacting in a store or shopping mall with products, aisles, shelves, and checkout, retailers and shopping centers can increase sales revenue and create better shopping experiences at a lower cost.
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Moth + Flame Partners with SHRM to create a library of Virtual Reality learning experiences.
06.23.2022
Moth+Flame, a developer of virtual reality (VR) and immersive training technology, has announced that it has created its first enterprise-grade immersive learning marketplace for corporate training, allowing companies to leverage essential training in an immersive and engaging format via an IPad or VR headset. The company’s immersive conversation learning technology incorporates real people in natural environments, allowing learners to experience true-to-life workplace scenarios, where they are encouraged to apply learning objectives to reach positive outcomes.
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Chick-fil-A is Testing New Express Drive-thru Lane for Mobile Orders
06.22.2022
Though still in its initial testing phase at select restaurants, the express lane is a partially or fully dedicated lane in the drive-thru where customers who order on the mobile app can bypass the traditional drive-thru line to pick up their meal.
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Intrinio CEO Rachel Carpenter Writes Forbes Article
06.22.2022
Intrinio’s CEO Rachel Carpenter published an article “The Secret to a 99% Retention Rate for SaaS Leaders” on Forbes. "It’s all too tempting to hunger for new deals and neglect onboarding and success post-close. This is a huge and often catastrophic mistake. It’s like sailing your ship before you’ve patched the holes or flying with blinders on. Executives who have experienced churn know that it’s impossible to feel good about strong sales if you also have high churn...."
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Cresta Honored as a Customer Contact Week Excellent Awards Finalist for Automation Solution of the Year
06.19.2022
The CCW Excellence Awards recognize the most innovative companies and top-performing executives for their extraordinary contributions to the customer contact profession.
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Chain.io Closes $11M Series A Financing to Deliver Better Data Integration and Visibility Across the Global Supply Chain
06.15.2022
Chain.io announced an $11 million series A funding round to continue achieving that goal. The round was led by Fontinalis Partners and High Alpha.
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Molecula’s CEO Higinio Maycotte is featured among the Top US-based Founders in the SaaS Space.
06.10.2022
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting. This list showcases the top United States based Founder operating in the SaaS space.
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Help Lightning Provides Merged Reality Technology for UAB Youth Safety Lab
06.10.2022
UAB Youth Safety Lab is using Merged Reality to help parents properly install car seats. Help Lightning is providing the technology.
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Kanarys Co-Founder, COO, and General Counsel, Star Carter, Included in Top 100 HR Tech Influencers
06.08.2022
Kanarys’ Co-Founder, COO, and General Counsel, Star Carter, was named one of the Top 100 HR Tech Influencers by Human Resource Executive Magazine.The members of HRE’s fourth annual list span a range of fields and expertise, from analytics, recruiting and AI experts to futurists, analysts, consultants, HR practitioners, product leaders and more. They share exceptional expertise, deep knowledge, bold ideas and broad influence in HR and especially within the HR technology industry.
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Fluree’s Co-CEO Brian Platz Writes Forbes Article
06.01.2022
Fluree’s Co-CEO and Forbes Councils Member Brian Platz published an insightful article in Forbes on "Why Web3 Is So Confusing"
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Chick-fil-A is Testing Autonomous Delivery Robots
05.31.2022
At a limited number of restaurants in California, Texas, and Florida, Chick-fil-A is testing delivery with the newest members of their fleet, autonomous delivery robots. At their full potential, these robots can enhance restaurant operations, cut delivery costs and provide great-tasting food with the consistency our guests expect.
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Fluree is Named Among the Top 10 Coolest Database Systems of the Big Data 100 by CRN
05.24.2022
CRN’s Big Data 100 includes a look at the vendors solution providers should know in the big data database system space.
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Wellstar Health System Partners with Moth+Flame to Test Virtual Reality Leadership Training
05.24.2022
Catalyst by Wellstar, the health system's global digital health and innovation center, along with Wellstar Leadership Development and Moth+Flame hosted the health system's first-ever VR-based leadership development training, focused on emotional intelligence.
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Sounding Board Achieves SOC 2 Type 2 Certification
05.20.2022
Sounding Board is the first Leader Development Platform designed to bridge the leadership gap and now in accordance with the widely-recognizing auditing standard developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, they've achieved SOC 2 Type 2 Certification.
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Supply Chain Innovator Verusen Scores Three Awards, Continues Accelerated Growth and Momentum
05.19.2022
Verusen was recognized as an Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Pacesetter, one of the city’s fastest-growing private companies. The company was ranked #16 overall and #2 in the Manufacturing / Supply Chain category.
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Civic Eagle Secures $10M in Series A Funding Led by S3 Ventures
05.11.2022
Civic Eagle, a technology company providing legislative data and intelligence products, raises a $10M Series A funding round. The funding will be used to expand the company's impact on public policy data innovation, aggressively expand sales and marketing efforts, and broaden product development. The funding round was led by S3 Ventures, and with participation from Menlo Ventures, Consonance Investment Managers, Debut Capital, and Colin Kaepernick. Returning investors include Backstage Capital, ffVC, M25, and Higher Ground Labs.
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Stord Reaches $1.3 Billion Valuation and Launches a New Podcast: “How to Unf*ck Your Supply Chain”.
05.11.2022
Logistics startup Stord Inc. has raised an additional $120 million, bringing its total funding to $325 million and valuing the company at $1.3 billion.
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Inclusively Named Finalist in the Workplace Category of Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards
05.04.2022
Inclusively was named to Fast Company's World Changing Ideas Awards 2022 as a finalist in the Workplace Category and added Delta Air Lines and Walmart as partner companies hiring on their platform.
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The Mom Project’s RISE Program Named Finalist in Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards.
05.03.2022
RISE, a scholarship program accelerating equity for mothers and women of color that provides upskill technology certifications and community support by The Mom Project, is selected by Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards which honors world-changing projects from companies with between 100 and 999 employees.
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Resilia CEO and Founder Sevetri Wilson Speaks at digitalundivided’s Final BREAKTHROUGH Event.
05.03.2022
Bestselling Author and Founder/CEO of SaaS tech platform; Sevetri Wilson was guest speaker at the final BREAKTHROUGH event in NOLA.
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Paladin Raises $8 million to Help Lawyers Increase Pro bono Work
05.03.2022
Paladin raised $8 million in a Series A round led by Atlanta-based World Within. Paladin has now raised more than $12 million since it launched in 2015.
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Intrinio’s Co-Founder and CEO Rachel Carpenter Joins the Wall Street Horizon’s Panel of Data Industry Experts on Data Minds
05.03.2022
Intrinio’s co-founder and CEO Rachel Carpenter joins the Wall Street Horizon’s panel of data industry experts on Data Minds: Capitalizing on Global Event-Driven Data, an event in which data experts address volatility factors in the global marketplace, including risk arbitrage, regulatory changes, implied versus historical earnings moves, and the effect of supply chain issues.
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Wellstar Named One of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For
04.29.2022
Wellstar is named one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For for putting its people first amid a national health crisis.
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Itential Named Gartner’s 2022 Cool Vendor in Network Automation
04.27.2022
Gartner names Itential a 2022 Cool Vendor in Network Automation as a vendor offering new approaches to solve operational challenges that help infrastructure leaders and network teams to enable scale and drive efficiency, uptime, and agility.
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Inclusively Co-Founders Charlotte Dales and Sarah Bernard Named to The Care Guild List
04.25.2022
Inclusively co-founders Charlotte Dales and Sarah Bernard are named to the Care Guild List, a list honoring twenty-five innovators reimagining the United States care system, expanding economic opportunity for the historically marginalized.
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MetaCX Co-Founder and CEO Scott McCorkle Writes Article for VentureBeat
04.25.2022
MetaCX co-founder and CEO Scott McCorkle writes an article for VentureBeat detailing the evolution of software as a service and his view of the metaverse.
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WorkStep Co-Founder and CEO Dan Johnston Writes Forbes Article
04.24.2022
WorkStep co-founder and CEO Dan Johnston authors a Forbes article discussing WorkStep’s role in solving the supply chain crisis.
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UPS Celebrates Earth Day by Joining the Low Carbon Patent Pledge
04.22.2022
UPS, in its commitment to advancing environmental sustainability, joined the Low Carbon Patent Pledge to help bring greener solutions to its global communities.
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WorkStep Co-Founder and CEO Dan Johnston Featured in Inc. Magazine
04.20.2022
WorkStep co-founder and CEO Dan Johnston is featured in Inc. Magazine discussing businesses trying to understand the hourly employee.
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UPS CEO Carol Tomé Named the #1 Leader in Supply Chain Digital’s 2022 List of the Top 100 Women in Supply Chain
04.19.2022
UPS CEO Carol Tomé, who aims to deliver what matters for UPS's customers and communities, is named the #1 leader in Supply Chain Digital's 2022 list of the Top 100 Women in Supply Chain.
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Molecula FeatureBase Becomes Available on Amazon Web Services Marketplace
04.19.2022
Molecula FeatureBase, the world’s only feature-oriented database platform, becomes available to Amazon Web Services users through the Marketplace, allowing Amazon Web Services customers to purchase FeatureBase to power their real-time analytics and application workloads directly through their Amazon Web Services account.
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Itential Featured as Top Company in The Network Automation Software Market Research Report
04.19.2022
Itential is featured in The Network Automation Software Market Research Report, a professional asset that provides dynamic and statistical insights into regional and global markets.
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Stord Founder and CEO Sean Henry Writes Forbes Article
04.18.2022
Stord’s founder and CEO Sean Henry shared thoughts and perspectives from Stord on Forbes, on how brands can optimize inventory throughput to balance agility and resilience (and rising costs).
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Stord Co-Founder and CEO Sean Henry Writes Forbes Article
04.18.2022
Stord co-founder and CEO Sean Henry wrote a Forbes article on how to balance agility and resilience and how retailers can optimize inventory throughput.
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Molecula Featured in Chief Data Officer Magazine’s 25 Startups to Watch in 2022
04.18.2022
Molecula, the creator of FeatureBase, the real-time database for any scale, is named by Chief Data Officer Magazine as one of 25 Data Startups to Watch in 2022 in its annual write-up.
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Shine Releases New Podcast, “Friends With Mental Health Benefits”
04.14.2022
Shine releases a new podcast, “Friends With Mental Health Benefits,” addressing caring for mental health at work.
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Coginiti Raises $4M in Funding led by Circadian Ventures.
04.13.2022
Coginiti, an Atlanta, GA-based collaborative intelligence company, raised $4M in funding. The round was led by Circadian Ventures. The company intends to use the funds to provide tools that enable analytics teams to discover, create and share insights. Led by CEO Rick Hall, Coginiti provides integrated analytics management tools that empower data engineers, analysts and teams of analysts to generate insights quickly. The company’s practices and applications enable modern analytics teams to discover, create, share and reuse their most productive analytic assets.
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WorkStep Co-Founder and CEO Dan Johnston Writes Article for BenefitsPRO
04.12.2022
WorkStep co-founder and CEO Dan Johnston shares a commentary on the dangers of rising wages to improve retention on BenefitsPRO.
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Otto Emerges From Stealth Mode with a Breakthrough in Machine Learning for Malware Detection
04.12.2022
Otto emerged from Stealth Mode with a breakthrough in machine learning for malware detection in response to record-high cyberattacks and unprecedented global shortages in security staff.
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PICKUP Reveals Deliveries Will Be 100% Carbon Neutral Starting in April 2022
04.10.2022
Starting in April 2022, PICKUP deliveries are 100% carbon neutral, with vehicle emissions calculated and neutralized through certified carbon reduction.
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Deep North Co-Founder and CEO Rohan Sanil Shares How Data-Driven Technology Can Help Maximize Revenue for Shopping Centers in a Retail TouchPoints Article
04.06.2022
Deep North co-founder and CEO Rohan Sanil shared the primary ways in which shopping malls are using Deep North's intelligent, real-time video analytics platform to digitize and transform their properties in a Retail TouchPoints article.
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Coca-Cola Teams Up with Bill Nye to Demystify Recycling in Striking Animation
04.05.2022
The Coca-Cola Company teams up with Bill Nye to unveil an animated, stop-motion short film that illustrates the holistic recycling process, breaking down the ins-and-outs of plastic recycling for viewers to demystify the process, with the ultimate goal of inspiring action.
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GreenPrint Collaborates with PICKUP to Neutralize 100% of Its Carbon Emissions Across Its Network
04.05.2022
GreenPrint collaborates with PICKUP, a nationwide last-mile delivery company, to calculate and neutralize vehicle emissions for all its deliveries, a relationship enabling PICKUP and its retail and commercial partners to meet corporate sustainability targets while addressing the growing consumer demand for environmentally friendly delivery options.
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Manifest Climate Announced the Completion of a CAD $30 million Series A Raise
04.02.2022
Manifest Climate is excited to announce the completion of a CAD $30 million Series A raise. The proceeds will strengthen our climate intelligence capabilities, support companies wherever they are on their climate journey, and bring transparency to capital markets. Special thanks to all our funders: BDC Capital (Canada), Climate Innovation Capital, OMERS Ventures, Golden Ventures, Garage Capital, Active Impact Investments, Klass Capital, Bryker & Co.
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Longevity Movement Brings Catalyst by Wellstar to Partner with Bee Downtown
04.02.2022
Wellstar embarks on a journey to change traditional health care through Catalyst by Wellstar and a partnership with Bee Downtown.
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Inclusively Wins HR.com’s First Annual Startup Tech Showcase
03.30.2022
Inclusively wins HR.com's first annual Startup Tech Showcase, an event featuring a series of presentations from startups with solutions across the whole range of Human Resources disciplines, with each startup receiving feedback and questioning from a panel of industry experts.
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Pryon Introduces the Knowledge Bot
03.28.2022
In a March session of Pryon’s webinar series, Pryon President Chris Mahl and Product Marketing Vice President David Tareen introduced the Knowledge Bot, Pryon’s AI-powered “booster engine” for chatbot and service agent performance.
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Kanarys CEO Mandy Price Discusses What the “She-Cession” Will Teach About Hiring
03.24.2022
On the second day of South by Southwest 2022, the "What the She-Cession Will Teach Us About Hiring" panel was led by Jessica Jensen, Chief Marketing Officer at Indeed, and included Mandy Price, CEO and co-founder of Kanarys, Janet Gipson, Vice President of Talent Acquisition for Global Medical Response, and Jennifer Tracy, the Vice President of Talent Acquisition at Spectrum.
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Inclusively Rethinks the Hiring Process
03.18.2022
Inclusively, which was co-founded by Charlotte Dales, is an employment platform connecting companies to candidates with disabilities that have traditionally been excluded from the hiring process altogether.
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Vyv’s Antimicrobial Lighting Installed Throughout the Team Spaces of Duke’s Newly-Renovated Jim Sabiston Field House
03.16.2022
With the renovations of the Jim Sabiston Field House, which will house a new locker room for Duke's Blue Devils, Vyv's anitmoicrobial lighting, a technology that works non-stop to kill bacteria and stop the growth of microbes on equipment and surfaces with proven results, will be installed throughout the team spaces, assuring the space is safe and clean at all times.
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Cresta Raises Series C
03.15.2022
Cresta raises an $80 million Series C at a $1.6 billion valuation led by Tiger Global Management and joined by industry leaders Genesys, Five9, J.P. Morgan, Zoom, and CarMax.
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Moth + Flame Featured by The Org
03.14.2022
Moth + Flame is featured in The Org’s article “How Virtual Reality is Revolutionizing DE&I Training” for its creation of immersive, one-on-one virtual reality experiences to provide diversity and inclusion training to businesses and organizations.
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Filtered Announces $10 Million in Financing and New CEO
03.14.2022
Technical interview platform Filtered reveals former Jobvite chief Dan Finnigan became the company’s CEO and announces $10 million in financing in a round led by AI Fund, Silicon Valley Data Capital, and TDF Ventures.
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The Mom Project Featured on Forbes 2022 America’s Best Startup Employers List
03.10.2022
The Mom Project, which is committed to creating a world where mothers don’t have to choose between their careers and families, is featured in Forbes 2022 America's Best Startup Employers list.
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ICON Unveils “House Zero” and Announces 2022 South by Southwest Activations
03.02.2022
ICON, the leader of advanced construction technologies pioneering in large-scale 3D printing, unveils its newest 3D-printed home, "House Zero," in Austin, Texas.
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The Mom Project’s RISE Program Exceeds Its Goal of Awarding Over Two Thousand Women Scholarships
03.01.2022
In just one year, The Mom Project's RISE program exceeds its goal of reaching one thousand women, awarding over two thousand women scholarships, achieving two hundred ten percent of the program's first-year goal and reaching participants from almost every state in the United States.
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Fluree Chosen to Provide Patient-Owned Verifiable, Cryptographically-Protected Digital Health Records
02.25.2022
Fluree, a provider of a Web3 data platform, revealed a collaboration in which patients can store, access, possess, and share their respective unique, provable and cryptographically protected digital health data, allowing patients to own their health records in a digital, trustworthy, and verifiable form built upon open, interoperable Web3 standards.
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Cresta Named Winner of CX Awards 2022 for Most Innovative Product
02.24.2022
Cresta is named a winner of the CX Awards 2022 for Most Innovative Product.
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ICON Raises $185 Million in Tiger-Led Round to Build More Homes with Its 3D-Printing Technology
02.18.2022
ICON, which creates homes using 3D printing, raises an additional $185 million in a round led by Tiger Global Management, an extension of ICON's $207 million Series B that was announced last August.
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Metro Atlanta Chamber Celebrates One Year of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Progress with Inaugural Assessment Results Created in Partnership with Kanarys
02.17.2022
One year after the launch of ATL Action for Racial Equity, the Metro Atlanta Chamber announces results of the inaugural Diversity, Equity and Inclusion assessment created in partnership with Kanarys.
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Cresta Becomes Finalist for CX Awards 2022
02.17.2022
Cresta is a Finalist for the CX Awards 2022 for Best Contact Center Platform, Most Innovative Product, and Best Use of Artificial Intelligence.
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Digital Fitness Platform FitOn Announces $40 Million in New Funding and the Acquisition of Peerfit
02.15.2022
FitOn, a top fitness app and digital fitness platform, raises $40M in new funding and expands its reach in healthcare and wellness through the acquisition of Peerfit, a corporate wellness leader, bringing together the best in both at-home and in-the-gym fitness to support the health and wellness needs of consumers as well as employees and Medicare recipients while removing barriers to being active.
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The Metro Atlanta Chamber Celebrates Goodr’s Fifth Anniversary in Making an Impact Across the United States in Reducing Food Waste and Fighting Hunger
02.11.2022
The Metro Atlanta Chamber celebrates Goodr's fifth anniversary of making an impact across the United States in reducing food waste and fighting hunger, accompanied by conversations with Metro Atlanta Chamber's Chief Innovation Officer Alex Gonzalez.
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Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens Celebrates Goodr’s Fifth Anniversary and Grand Opening of Its Brand New Headquarters
02.11.2022
Atlanta's mayor, Andre Dickens, celebrates Goodr's fifth anniversary and grand opening of its brand new headquarters.
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MetaCX Partners with Catalyst by Wellstar
02.11.2022
Catalyst by Wellstar, Wellstar's global digital health and innovation center, partners with MetaCX to better understand the value of collaborations in important and complex areas such as sustainability and team member wellness.
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MetaCX Unveils the Business Value Network, Shaping the Future of Business in the Metaverse
02.11.2022
MetaCX unveils the Business Value Network, a platform that enables businesses to establish persistent digital connections with other businesses in their ecosystem—customers, vendors, and stakeholders, to manage the expected value from these relationships.
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Atlanta Startup Voxie Featured on Atlanta Inno for Helping Understaffed Businesses and Raising $25 Million to Expand
02.10.2022
Voxie CEO Bogdan Constantin is capitalizing on a trend that he thinks could transform the marketing industry, and now his Atlanta-based startup Voxie has $25 million to expand his vision.
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Virsec Launches Application Security Platform
02.04.2022
Security company Virsec launches a new security platform, its Deterministic Protection Platform, aimed at preventing attacks on server infrastructure and the software supply chain.
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Fluree Co-Founder and co-CEO Brian Platz Write About NFT Innovations for The New Stack
01.31.2022
Fluree’s co-founder and co-CEO Brian Platz writes a thought leadership piece on NFT innovations for The New Stack within the context of metadata management.
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Kanarys Partners with Neiman Marcus Group
01.28.2022
Kanarys partners with the Neiman Marcus Group to improve the company's diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives through data and transparency.
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Supply Chain Innovator Verusen Gets $25 Million to Expand Into Direct Materials
01.25.2022
Verusen, an Atlanta-based supply chain intelligence innovator, raises $25 million in Series B funding to grow its footprint and build out its Artificial Intelligence-driven technology platform.
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Invesco Leads $700 Million Funding Round for Bengaluru-Based Food Delivery Startup Swiggy
01.25.2022
Bengaluru-based Swiggy's latest capital infusion from a $700-million round led by United States asset manager Invesco nearly doubles Swiggy's valuation to over ten billion dollars, making it a decacorn.
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The Mom Project Creates Economic Opportunities Worth $300 Million in Last Three Years for Moms
01.15.2022
The Mom Project creates three hundred million dollars in the last three years for moms, through job placements and pay increases following upskilling.
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Goodr Founder and CEO Included in Atlanta Magazine’s Atlanta 500
01.14.2022
Atlanta Magazine includes Goodr founder and CEO Jasmine Crowe in the Altanta 500, highlighting Atlanta's most powerful leaders.
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The Mom Project Unlocks $50 Million in Economic Opportunity for Moms by the End of Its First Quarter in 2022
01.12.2022
The Mom Project partners with progressive and passionate companies, including Amazon, Best Buy, Etsy, Zendesk, and many more to unlock $50 million in economic opportunity for moms by the end of its first quarter in 2022.
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A Robot Named “Wingy” Comes to Inspire Brands’ Buffalo Wild Wings
01.08.2022
Inspire Brands reveals plans to implement a robot named Wingy, capable of frying wings, lifting wings, and placing wings in a heated holding area, in Buffalo Wild Wings, in partnership with Miso Robotics.
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Cloverly Unveils One-Stop Carbon Dashboard
01.05.2022
Cloverly releases a new one-stop carbon dashboard, allowing customers to view their total carbon emissions, offsets, and trends and build stakeholder reports, while also offsetting company hotel reservations, freight bookings, and card transactions in real-time.
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Inclusively CEO and Co-Founder Charlotte Dales Featured on LivingHR’s List of 24 Influencers Humanizing the Future of Work
12.15.2021
Inclusively CEO and co-founder Charlotte Dales was featured on livingHR's list of 24 Influencers Humanizing the Future of Work, a list of people leading the charge to put people at the center of work.
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The Mom Project Becomes Honoree of Inc. Magazine’s Best in Business Awards
12.10.2021
The Mom Project is an honoree of Inc. Magazine's Best in Business Awards for its ability to connect to an untapped source of talent.
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Vyv Presented with Cruise Ship Interiors Award at the Cruise Ship Interiors Expo, Winning Collaboration Award
12.08.2021
Vyv is presented with a Cruise Ship Interiors Award presented at the Cruise Ship Interiors Expo in Europe, winning The Collaboration Award for its work adapting antimicrobial lighting for the marine industry.
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Workera’s CEO Kian Katanforoosh was named an Education All-Star Alumni in the Forbes 30 under 30
12.01.2021
From Online Education To College Prep, Forbes’ 30 Under 30 In Education Are Innovating Through The Pandemic
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Quasar on Front of Amazon Web Services Time Series Solutions
11.29.2021
Quasar is showcased on the front of the Amazon Web Services time series solutions for financial services page.
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Fluree and Co-CEO and Co-Founder Brian Platz Writes for Forbes Technology Council
11.24.2021
Fluree co-CEO and co-founder Brian Platz writes a Forbes article, discussing how semantic metadata sidechains are transforming non-fungible token interoperability and application.
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Pryon Positions for Leadership in Artificial-Intelligence-Enchanced Knowledge Management with Management Funding and Talent Momentum
11.24.2021
Pryon brings in new leadership and funding, including introducing Chris Mahl as President and CRO, an expanded board with the addition of Kirsten Wolberg, and investors participating in Pryon’s recent extension round, that will bring the next generation of interactive knowledge management to the everyday work experience.
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QuasarDB Becomes Quasar
11.22.2021
QuasarDB becomes Quasar, to reflect its mission statement: enable AI to create wealth.
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Molecula Featured in CRN’s 10 Hottest Big Data Startups of 2021
11.18.2021
Molecula is featured in CRN’s 10 Hottest Big Data Startups of 2021, a list featuring companies developing leading-edge technologies that help solution providers and customers meet their big data challenges.
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Help Lightning Named to Fast Company’s First-Ever List of the Next Big Things in Technology
11.18.2021
Help Lightning, the leading provider of remote visual assistance software, announces that it has been named to Fast Company’s inaugural Next Big Things in Tech list, honoring the technology breakthroughs that promise to shape the future of their industries, from healthcare to agriculture to artificial intelligence and more.
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Techstars Company Birdstop Demonstrates Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Capabilities for Alabama Power
11.18.2021
Birdstop demonstrates its unmanned aerial vehicle capabilities for Alabama Power through the Techstars program and other Alabama-based resources and financial support, enhancing employee safety and resulting in cost savings for Alabama Power and its one and a half million customers.
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ICON’s Vulcan Technology Featured by TIME’s 100 Best Inventions of 2021
11.17.2021
ICON's Vulcan technology is featured on TIME's 100 Best Inventions of 2021 for its efforts to create homes on Mars.
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Clutch CEO Dan Park Featured in BNN Bloomberg
11.17.2021
Dan Park, CEO of Clutch, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss how his fully integrated online car retailer is providing customers with a new and convenient way to access this high-demand market.
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Coros Raises $6.1 Million Seed Round of Venture Capital Funding
11.17.2021
Coros raises a $6.1 million seed round of venture capital funding led by Dynamo Ventures to bring computer vision to e-commerce parcel fulfillment.
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The Mom Project Founder and CEO Allison Robinson Named to the Staffing Industry Analysts’ Seventh Annual Global Power 150 – Women in Staffing List
11.16.2021
The Mom Project founder and CEO Allison Robinson is recognized by Staffing Industry Analysts as one of the most influential females in the staffing industry in its seventh annual Global Power 150 - Women in Staffing list.
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Clutch Featured in TechCrunch
11.16.2021
Clutch's mission to build an incredible car-buying experience for all Canadians and service ninety percent of Canadians by the end of 2023 is shared by TechCrunch.
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Clutch Announces Series B Funding Round
11.16.2021
Clutch closes a Series B round, raising $100 million in equity financing, which will further its mission to provide Canadians with an unparalleled, online car-buying experiencing while making a positive impact on the communities it serves.
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UPS Healthcare Continues Expansion of Capabilities Throughout Global Supply Chain
11.16.2021
UPS Healthcare expands its purpose-built cold chain facilities with a new set of facilities and more global expansion, bringing sophisticated healthcare logistics capabilities to customers around the world.
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Cox Enterprises Named to Forbes 2021 Best Employers for Veterans List
11.12.2021
Cox Enterprises is ranked by Forbes among its 2021 Best Employers for Veterans, reinforcing its culture as an employer who cares about the veteran community.
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The Home Depot Foundations Surpasses $400 Million in Support of Veterans
11.11.2021
The Home Depot Foundation surpasses four hundred million dollars invested in support of United States military veterans since 2011, when it first announced its formal commitment to veteran causes, a pledge that has since grown to five hundred million by the year 2025, primarily focusing on veteran housing initiatives.
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Cloverly at United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) for the Sustainable Innovation Forum
11.10.2021
Cloverly CEO Jason Rubottom spoke at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) at the Sustainable Innovation Forum.
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Chick-fil-A Shares Latest Holiday Short Film
11.09.2021
Chick-fil-A released its third annual holiday film, encouraging people to turn the unexpected into something wonderful.
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Inspire Brands Launches Alliance Kitchen, the First-of-Its-Kind Kitchen for Delivery and Take-Out Orders in Atlanta
11.09.2021
Inspire Brands opens the first ghost kitchen launched, owned, and operated by a multi-brand restaurant company, offering favorite menu items from Arby’s, Buffalo Wild Wings, Jimmy John’s, SONIC Drive-In, and for the first time in the Atlanta-area, Rusty Taco.
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Help Lightning Acquires Fieldbit
11.09.2021
Help Lightning, the leading provider of remote visual assistance software, announces the acquisition of Fieldbit, an augmented reality-enabled platform known for its innovative knowledge sharing, remote collaboration, and workflow automation capabilities supporting both expert led and self-help solutioning.
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Delta Air Lines Joins First Movers Coalition
11.04.2021
Delta Air Lines joined the First Movers Coalition, a public-private partnership and platform designed to accelerate and scale the development of breakthrough technologies and fuels, helping hard-to-abate sectors, like aviation, reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Honeywell’s Sine Software Helps Employers Manage And Track COVID-19 Vaccination Status
11.03.2021
Honeywell’s Sine software, a workplace Software-as-a-Service solution, can help employers manage and track COVID-19 vaccination status through the Customizable Vaccination Tracker.
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Verusen Available on System Applications and Products in Data Processing (SAP) Store
11.02.2021
Atlanta-based artificial intelligence supply chain innovator Verusen announces that its industry-proven Verusen Materials Management solution is now available on SAP Store, the online marketplace for SAP and partner offerings.
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Coca-Cola Acquires Full Ownership of BODYARMOR
11.01.2021
The Coca-Cola Company announces its acquisition of full ownership of BODYARMOR, a line of sports performance and hydration beverages that is incremental to the Coca-Cola beverage portfolio and has significant potential for long-term growth.
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Coros CEO Martin Hitch Writes for Forbes Technology Council
10.29.2021
Coros is featured in the first of a series of posts from CEO Martin Hitch discussing the importance of getting the first mile right in order to deliver on time, every time.
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ICON’s East ATX Retreat is First 3D-Printed Home Available on Airbnb
10.29.2021
Located in the heart of the East Austin Community, the East ATX Retreat, a unique two-bedroom home built leveraging ICON's proprietary 3D printing construction technology and advanced material designed to last longer than traditional building materials, is the first 3D-printed home to be available on Airbnb.
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STORD Makes the FreightWaves FreightTech 100 List of Companies Disrupting the Freight Industry
10.29.2021
STORD makes the FreightWaves FreightTech 100 list of companies for 2022, which honors innovation and disruption within the freight industry.
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Skyryse Brings in $200 Million to Make Flying an Aircraft as Simple as Swiping a Touchscreen
10.27.2021
Five-year-old startup Skyryse raises a $200 million Series B to develop FlightOS, a flight automation technology stack that the company says will help experienced pilots operate new types of aircraft and allow complete novices to quickly learn the ropes of flying.
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Spatial Partners with HealthTunes and Catalyst by Wellstar to Leverage the Healing Power of Sound to Help Frontline Healthcare Workers Reduce Stress and Anxiety in the Workplace
10.26.2021
Wellstar Health System’s Catalyst partners with Spatial to pilot immersive sound technology to help reduce stress for Wellstar’s frontline team members, a partnership focusing on designing immersive sound environments that provide a respite for frontline healthcare workers in the hospital setting.
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The Mom Project Named to Fortune Magazine’s Impact 20 List
10.26.2021
The Mom Project, a platform designed to help businesses locate and retain talented working moms, is named to the 2021 Fortune Magazine Impact 20 list, a list recognizing companies making measurable progress addressing social and environmental issues as part of their core business strategy.
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Skyryse’s FlightOS Featured in The New York Times
10.25.2021
Skyryse was featured in The New York Times for its development of the FlightOS tech, providing a glimpse into the future of flight, which will allow people to fly like the best pilots in the world.
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Goodr CEO and Founder Jasmine Crowe Featured as Speaker at the Drawdown Georgia Business Compact
10.21.2021
Goodr CEO and founder Jasmine Crowe was a featured speaker at the Drawdown Georgia Business Compact, a unique state-centered collaborative initiative focused on galvanizing climate action in Georgia, hosted by Georgia Tech’s Scheller College of Business,
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Deep North Raises $16.7 Million Series A-1 to Scale and Expand Its AI Computer Vision Software
10.21.2021
Deep North, the AI company transforming video assets into robust, custom-tailored analytics, raises $16.7M in Series A-1 funding co-led by Celesta Capital and Yobi Partners, with participation from Conviction Investment Partners, which Deep North plans to utilize to make key hires and expand services at scale.
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STORD Opens Warehouse in Las Vegas, Adding Supply Chain Capacity Ahead of a Busy Holiday Season
10.20.2021
STORD, the cloud supply chain leader, opens a new fulfillment center in Las Vegas, a facility that will serve STORD customers in the Southwest and across Northern California and is set to bring hundreds of jobs to Nevada over the coming years.
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Kanarys Co-Founder and CEO Speaks at the Inc. 5000 Vision Conference on How to Measure the True Impact of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
10.19.2021
Kanarys co-founder and CEO Mandy Price joins Dr. Candace Warner, founder and CEO of people3, to discuss how to measure the true impact of diversity, equity, and inclusion, go over what business leaders need to consider in making meaningful, lasting changes within the area of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and how to set and implement actionable goals to improve an organization, its people, and ultimately, its bottom line.
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Atlanta Startups Smash Fundraising Records, Raising Almost $3 Billion in 2021
10.14.2021
Georgia startups raise almost $3 billion in 2021, according to the PitchBook-National Venture Capital Association Venture Monitor report for the third quarter, a fundraising amount that smashes the previous record with the months left in the year.
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Moth + Flame Partners with Risk & Return
10.10.2021
Moth + Flame partners with Risk & Return to reimagine how the workforce of the future (to include the United States military) will train through immersive and experiential virtual reality techniques that are vastly more effective.
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Cresta Wins Outstanding Enterprise Achievement in Enterprise Adoption of AI in CogX Awards
10.09.2021
Cresta wins the Outstanding Enterprise Achievement in Enterprise Adoption of AI in this year’s CogX Awards.
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Moth + Flame Partners with National Urban League
10.08.2021
Virtual reality firm Moth + Flame partners with the National Urban League to develop a virtual diversity, equity, and inclusion workforce trainer, developing a training solution to combine human resources with human rights.
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Tribute raised $1.5 million over a two-part seed round, allowing the mentoring app to hire former Amazon AWS architect Ian Ma as its chief technical officer.
10.07.2021
Tribute, which integrates with Slack and Microsoft Teams, is trying to solve the fear-of-commitment hurdle that prevents mentor-mentee relationships from ever getting off the ground. The app limits a mentoring interactions to a month, with the option of both parties agreeing to renew for additional 30-day stretches.
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Stratifyd Selected as Finalist for Charlotte Business Journal’s 2021 Best Places to Work
10.07.2021
Stratifyd is a finalist for Charlotte Business Journal’s 2021 Best Places to Work, a program highlighting companies that have the perks, practices, and policies to attract and keep top talent, earning a spot among the top twenty-eight large companies in Charlotte.
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Technology Investment in Georgia and the Southeast Off to a Fast Start in 2021
10.07.2021
Investors pump more than $2 billion into startup companies in Georgia in the first half of 2021, more than all of 2020′s $1.9 billion, according to the 2021 State of the Startups in the Southeast report by Atlanta-based venture capital firm Panoramic Ventures.
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The Home Depot Teams Up with Walmart to Expand Same-Day and Next-Day Delivery
10.06.2021
The Home Depot is the first retail client of Walmart GoLocal, which uses Walmart’s expansive network to deliver products for businesses of all sizes, which will allow Home Depot customers to receive same-day or next-day delivery on a variety of home improvement products through this innovative partnership.
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Homee Announces Strategic Integration Through CoreLogic Digital Hub Alliance
10.04.2021
Homee, the leading tech-enabled Guaranteed Repair Network to the insurance industry, joins the CoreLogic Digital Hub Alliance, a strategic integration enabling a streamlined workflow and seamless customer experience that allows carriers to control the entire claims process, from first notice of loss to completed repair.
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STORD Listed as One of The Tech Tribune’s 2022 Best Technology Startups in Atlanta
09.27.2021
STORD, founded in 2015, is listed as one of The Tech Tribune's best technology startups in Atlanta for 2022.
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Vyv’s Antimicrobial Light Technology Tests Positive for Inactivation and Killing of COVID-19 and Other Enveloped Viruses
09.27.2021
Vyv, pioneer and leader in one hundred percent Ultraviolet-free antimicrobial visible light technology, reveals recent independent test results validating the efficacy of its light technology for inactivating and killing enveloped viruses, the class of viruses that can cause COVID-19 and other illnesses, which rounds out third-party lab studies, first announced in May 2021, confirming Vyv's effectiveness against both non-enveloped and enveloped viruses.
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STORD Makes The Wall Street Journal’s Logistics Report
09.27.2021
Supply-chain technology integration provider STORD is featured in The Wall Street Journal's logistics report for raising $90 million in a Series D funding round at a post-money valuation of over $1 billion.
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Kanarys Selected to Be Presenting Company at the 2021 Venture Atlanta Conference
09.27.2021
Kanarys is selected to be a presenting company at the 2021 Venture Atlanta conference, an honor naming it to be one of the Southeast’s most promising technology companies.
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Kanarys Co-Founder and CEO Mandy Price Featured in The Wall Street Journal
09.25.2021
Kanarys co-founder and CEO Mandy Price is featured in a Wall Street Journal piece about whether companies can keep employee experiences equitable in a hybrid workplace environment.
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Delta Takes Center Stage During Global Citizen Live Events in New York and Paris
09.23.2021
Delta takes the stage during Global Citizen Live to share its carbon-neutral message and describe its science-based efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in partnership with the Science Based Target Initiative.
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Coca-Cola Partners with Global Citizen Live to Defend the Planet and Defeat Poverty
09.22.2021
Longstanding partners Coca-Cola and Global Citizen are teaming up to highlight progress on key sustainability priorities such as women's empowerment, water replenishment, sustainable packaging, and climate action.
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ICON’s Community of 3D-Printed Homes Wins Fast Company’s General Excellence Award
09.21.2021
ICON’s community of 3D-printed homes for people who have experienced chronic homelessness in Austin, Texas, wins Fast Company's General Excellence award.
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NameCoach Survey Discovers: 74% Struggle with Name Mispronunciation
09.16.2021
“You wanna go where everybody knows your name,” according to the famous theme song from the television sitcom Cheers. But according to a new study from NameCoach, work is not as inclusive as Cheers when it comes to pronouncing names correctly. The new study reveals that 44% of respondents had their names mispronounced in an interview, and 41% had their names mispronounced in a customer meeting. The survey of U.S. workers shows that Hispanics were among the most impacted, with 59% having their name mispronounced in an interview.
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Goldman Sachs Acquires GreenSky
09.15.2021
Goldman Sachs enters a definitive agreement pursuant to which Goldman Sachs will acquire GreenSky, the largest fintech platform for home improvement consumer loan originations, in an all-stock transaction valued at over $2 billion.
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STORD Raises a $90 Million Series D at a $1.1 Billion Valuation and Acquires Fulfillment Works to Bring World-Class Logistics to Every Company
09.14.2021
STORD expands its first-party warehouse capacity with new facilities in Connecticut and Nevada, in addition to its recently-opened Atlanta warehouse, and its new funding values the company at $1.1 billion and comes just six months after its $65 million Series C, with total funding increasing to $205 million.
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STORD Raises $90 Million, Becomes a Unicorn, and Acquires a Company
09.14.2021
STORD raises $90 million in a Series D round of funding at a post-money evaluation of over $1 billion, more than double the $510 million that the company was valued at when raising $65 million in a Series C financing just six months ago, and acquires Connecticut-based Fulfillment Works, a twenty-two-year-old company with direct-to-consumer experience and warehouses in Nevada and in its home state.
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Wellstar Recognized as One of 2021 PEOPLE Companies that Care and Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 2021 Healthiest Employers
09.13.2021
Wellstar Health System receives two prestigious awards that exemplify excellence, Great Place to Work and PEOPLE magazine’s 2021 PEOPLE Companies that Care and Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 2021 Healthiest Employers.
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The Mom Project Featured in Ardent Partners Future of Work Exchange List of Twenty-One Providers Shaping the Future of Work in 2021
09.08.2021
The Mom Project was featured in the Ardent Parterns Future of Work Exchange list of twenty-one key providers shaping the future of work in 2021 as one of the most progressive and innovative workforce and talent solutions in today’s evolving technology landscape.
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Kanarys CEO Mandy Price Featured in Texas CEO Magazine
09.07.2021
Kanarys co-founder and CEO Mandy Price is featured in the Texas CEO Magazine alongside COO and General Counsel Star Carter and Chief Product Officer Bennie King for her data-driven approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Goodr and Porsche Host Pop-Up Grocery Stores to Aid Families Struggling During the Pandemic
09.07.2021
Porsche Cars North America collaborates with Goodr, an Atlanta-based group working to end hunger and reduce food waste, to sponsor pop-up grocery stores in Atlanta and Los Angeles, with the goal of providing meals for one thousand families who have been financially impacted by the pandemic.
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Kanarys CEO and Co-Founder Mandy Price Featured on the Cover of D Magazine
08.27.2021
D Magazine honored Mandy Price, CEO and co-founder of Kanarys, on the cover of its September issue as one of seventy-eight women changing the face of Dallas.
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Honeywell Joins Atlanta-based Engage to Help City Grow as a Leading Innovation Hub
08.26.2021
Honeywell announced today that it has joined Atlanta-based Engage, a collaborative innovation and corporate venture platform that is dedicated to promoting the city as a technology hub.
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ICON Lands $207 Million Series B After Seeing 400% Year-Over-Year Revenue Growth
08.24.2021
ICON adds a massive $207 million Series B, which will go towards more construction of 3D-printed homes, rapid scaling, research and development, further space-based technological advancements, and creating a lasting societal impact on housing issues, to its list of accomplishments.
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The Wellstar Health System Unites with the Metro Atlanta Hospital Community to Share Current COVID-19-Related Data and Frontline (Patient-Protected) Stories from Each Hospital
08.19.2021
The Metro Atlanta Health Systems Press Conference shared Wellstar's united, joint message to share current COVID-19-related data and encourage the community to get vaccinated.
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Inclusively Featured on Inc. Magazine as a Startup Helping Businesses Reach an Untapped Talent Pool of 61 Million
08.18.2021
Inc. Magazine featured Inclusively CEO Charlotte Dales as the founder of a platform that helps people with a variety of disabilities, from mobility impairments and chronic illnesses to autism and PTSD, find accessible jobs at nearly 30 large employers, including Microsoft, Salesforce, and Comcast.
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Instant Financial Releases Report Finding Companies That Offer Daily Wages Reduce Employee Turnover by 27%
08.17.2021
A new data report from Instant proves that companies can boost recruitment, retention, and profitability through earned-wage access programs.
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Cloud-Based Logistics Company STORD Can Revolutionize the Global Supply Chain
08.17.2021
STORD's warehousing platform starts as a student project before proving itself as a much-needed marketplace for space.
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GreenPrint Makes the Inc. 5000 for the Third Consecutive Year, Ranking in the Top Half of the Nation’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies
08.17.2021
GreenPrint, a global environmental technology company, announces that it has earned a place on the 2021 Inc. 5000 list, a list representing a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy's most dynamic segment, its independent small businesses, for the third year in a row.
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Engage Portfolio Companies STORD, Peerfit, and AchieveIt Make Inc. Fastest-Growing Private Companies Roundup
08.17.2021
STORD was ranked forty-second on the Inc. Fastest-Growing Private Companies roundup, while Peerfit and and AchieveIt also put points on the board for Engage companies that made this prestigious list.
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Cox Enterprises Acquires BrightFarms
08.17.2021
Cox Enterprises announces the acquisition of BrightFarms, an indoor farming company and provider of locally-grown packaged salads, positively impacting the world through profitable, mission-driven businesses.
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Southern Company Completes Successful Spinout of Carbon Offset Startup Cloverly
08.12.2021
Southern Company, through its technology incubator, has closed a deal to spinout Cloverly.
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Coca-Cola Latest Corporate Partner to Join Engage
08.06.2021
Coca-Cola helps fuels Atlanta startup ecosystem with investment in Engage, collaborative innovation and corporate venture platform.
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ICON 3D Prints the First Simulated Mars Surface Habitat for NASA
08.06.2021
ICON announces that it has been awarded a subcontract through Jacobs supporting NASA's The Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog to deliver a 3D-printed habitat designed by renowned architecture firm BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group.
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STORD Opens State-of-the-Art Fulfillment Center and Innovation Hub in Atlanta to Democratize Supply Chains for Growing Businesses
08.04.2021
STORD, the pioneer of the Cloud Supply Chain and a leader in end-to-end logistics services and technology, announced the launch of a new warehouse and innovation center in Atlanta, which will integrate state-of-the-art robotics and automation technology, provide additional capacity for warehousing and fulfillment services in a top five market, and bring hundreds of new jobs to the Atlanta area over the next two years.
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Fort Benning Expands Work with Honeywell to Improve Energy Resilience
08.03.2021
Honeywell announces the next phase of a modernization project with Fort Benning, a United States Army post located on the border of Alabama and Georgia, to improve energy resilience, create a more comfortable living and working environment for Fort Benning soldiers, employees, and tenants, and ultimately help reduce the base's energy cost by $1.4 million annually.
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Orange County School Invests in Vyv UV-Free Antimicrobial Light for School Buses
08.03.2021
Vyv's antimicrobial LED lights now line Orange School County's school buses through the CARES Act.
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PICKUP CEO Brenda Stoner Featured on ValiantCEO
08.03.2021
PICKUP CEO and founder Brenda Stoner was featured in Valiant CEO Magazine for her role in starting, building, and growing companies in technology and life sciences.
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Ledgible Adds Doge Blockchain Native Integration
08.02.2021
The Ledgible app rolls out on-chain support for the Doge blockchain, so that now anyone who has Dogecoin stored in an on-chain wallet can directly import all of their transactions through an API connection.
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STORD Co-Founders Named Southeast Finalists in EY’s 2021 Entrepreneur of the Year Awards
07.29.2021
STORD's co-founders Jacob Boudreau and Sean Henry are Southeast finalists in EY's 2021 Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, celebrating the achievements of unstoppable entrepreneurs during a virtual awards celebration.
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FreightWaves Founder and CEO Acquires Aviation Magazine Flying
07.28.2021
The world's most widely-read aviation magazine, Flying, is sold to digital media entrepreneur and FreightWaves founder and CEO Craig Fuller, with plans to expand the iconic brand.
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Fast Radius Lists on NASDAQ Through Business Combination with ECP Environmental Growth Opportunities Corporation
07.22.2021
Fast Radius, a cloud manufacturing and digital supply chain company, and ECP Environmental Growth Opportunities Corporation enter into a definitive agreement that will result in Fast Radius becoming a publicly-listed company.
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PICKUP Introduces PICKUP Fusion, an End-to-End Omni-Delivery Solution
07.21.2021
PICKUP, an enterprise-grade, last mile delivery solution provider for leading retailers, commercial, and industrial businesses, introduces PICKUP Fusion, the end-to-end omni-delivery solution that supports PICKUP's partners with the delivery of bug, heavy, and high-value items.
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Peerfit Wins 2021 Well-Being Trailblazer Award
07.20.2021
Peerfit is awarded the 2021 Well-Being Trailblazer Award, presented by the Wellness Council of America and Archetype Solutions Group, for its incredible work in connecting people over physical fitness.
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Virsec Raises $100 Million in Series C Funding Round
07.14.2021
Software workload solutions provider Virsec announces raising $100 million in a Series C funding round, bringing the total raised by the company to $137 million.
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Hireology Acquires Employee Referral Platform EmployUs
07.13.2021
Hireology, the leading recruitment CRM built for multi-location, decentralized enterprises, announces the acquisition of employee referral technology provider, EmployUs.
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Cloverly Raises $2.1 Million for Its Seed Round, Led by Tech Square Ventures
07.08.2021
Cloverly, the leading Application Programming Interface for carbon offsetting, announces a growth investment from Tech Square Ventures, which is joined in the round by the Softbank Opportunity Fund, Panoramic Ventures, Knoll Ventures, SaaS Ventures, and Circadian Ventures.
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PICKUP CEO Featured Among Seventeen Powerful Women Leading Top Logistics Companies Through the Shift to E-Commerce
07.07.2021
PICKUP CEO and founder, Brenda Stoner, is listed among sixteen other amazing women featured by Business Insider.
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Help Lightning Wins 2021 RemoteTech Breakthrough Award
06.25.2021
Help Lightning, one of the leading providers of remote virtual assistance software, announces the winning of the "Remote Team Communication Innovation of the Year" award in the 2021 RemoteTech Breakthrough Awards, organized by Remote Breakthrough, a leading independent market intelligence organization that evaluates and recognizes standout technology companies, product, and services empowering remote work and distributed teams around the globe.
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Resilia Announces Strategic Investment by SoftBank’s Opportunity Fund
06.20.2021
Resilia, a social impact-focused SaaS company based in New Orleans, announces an investment by the SB Opportunity Fund (part of SoftBank Group, one of the largest technology investors in the world), a $100 million venture fund dedicated to supporting Black, Latinx and Native American founders.
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Homee Announces Partnership with Dwellbeing, Liberty Mutual’s Home Maintenance App
06.18.2021
Homee, the tech-enabled guaranteed repair network to the insurance industry, is expanding its partnership with Liberty Mutual Insurance by enabling users within the Dwellbeing home maintenance app to request immediate service from Homee’s extensive network of qualified contractors.
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Verady Featured in Payments Journal Recap of Bitcoin 2021
06.18.2021
Verady's co-founders and CEO, Kell Canty, have the opportunity to interact with many other companies, leaders, and journalists in the crypto space, including Payment Journal, and represent their company at the largest cryptocurrency conference ever.
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New Digital Advertising Rises from the Ashes of Surveillance Capitalism with Fluree
06.17.2021
The co-CEO at Fluree, the scalable semantic graph database backed by blockchain technology, is featured on Forbes.
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Inclusively Featured on Forbes as the Employment Platform Shouting Loudest on Disability at Work
06.17.2021
Inclusively is a professional network and employment platform with a committed focus on flipping the conversation around hiring disabled candidates firmly on its head.
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Voxie Named High Performer by G2
06.17.2021
G2, the leading business software peer-to-peer review site, names Voxie a High Performer on the G2 Summer 2021 SMS Marketing Grid.
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STORD CEO and Co-Founder Named to the Georgia Institute of Technology Alumni Association’s 2021 Class of 40 Under 40
06.17.2021
Co-founder and CEO of STORD, Sean Henry, is named to the Georgia Institute of Technology Alumni Association's 2021 class of 40 under 40, featuring forty talented individuals who have made significant contributions in their fields at an early age.
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Five Atlanta Startups Started by Georgia Tech Students Could Be the Next $1 Billion Companies
06.09.2021
Unicorns, the nickname for private companies that reach $1 billion valuations, are indications of a thriving technology ecosystem.
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Help Lightning Adds $3 Million in Growth Equity to Series A Round
06.01.2021
Help Lightning, one of the leading providers of remote visual assistance software, adds $3 million in growth equity to its Series A funding, representing continued investment in remote visual support and opportunity for the technologies that support it, particularly amid the pandemic.
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Filtered Gets $7 Million to Help Companies Fill Technology Roles
05.28.2021
Filtered, which has Facebook and Lyft among its roster of clients, has raised $7 million to accelerate its technical hiring service.
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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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Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards Selects Vyv Antimicrobial Light Technology as Honorable Mention in Wellness Category
05.04.2021
Vyv, a female founded and led health-tech industry leader and pioneer of antimicrobial LED technology, is selected as Honorable Mention in the Wellness category for its patented UV-free Antimicrobial Light technology that creates inhospitable environments for viruses, bacteria, mold, fungi and yeast to grow and survive.
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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 Explains 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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Civic Eagle’s co-founder, Yemi Adewunmi, talks about making policy more accessible to the public in a Fast Company interview.
01.11.2021
"Our users are advocates in nonprofits, lobbyists, and folks who work within a company’s government affairs team. Essential parts of their policy work include monitoring proposed laws as they are revised in the legislative process, communicating relevant updates to their organization, and working with others to strategize and influence policy..."
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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, co-founder 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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