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Paper towels are back in stores, but getting there wasn’t easy
09.29.2020
After the coronavirus slammed Georgia in March, paper towels took about half a year to return, and the journey wasn't easy, even though more rolls are made in Georgia than in most other states.
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The Mom Project Will Offer Tech Scholarships to 10,000 Women of Color
09.24.2020
The Mom Project just announced another initiative aimed at helping working mothers weather the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Cloud 100 Rising Stars 2020: Cloud Computing’s Next Wave, From Resilia To Roam Research
09.16.2020
The Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Stars recognizes 20 startups on the cutting edge of the industry, all with the potential to be among tomorrow’s top private cloud companies.
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How this Atlanta-Based Logistics Startup is Building a Global Distribution Network – Sean Henry, Founder & CEO, STORD
09.11.2020
On today’s show, we sit down with Sean Henry, founder and CEO of the cutting-edge logistics company, STORD.
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GreenPrint Corp Named to the 2019 Inc. 5000 List Ranking No. 71
09.11.2020
For the first time in the company's history, GreenPrint Corp has earned a spot on the Inc. 5000 list, the most prestigious ranking of the nation's fastest-growing privately held companies, ranking #71 on the venerable list and second in the Energy category.
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Meet the Tiny Austin Company That Wants to Disrupt the Trillion-Dollar Construction Industry With Its 3-D-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 24 hours.
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Serena Williams wants more companies to hire mothers, so she joined a startup that’s making it happen
09.11.2020
Serena Williams announced on Wednesday that she will serve as strategic advisor for the Mom Project, a platform that connects mothers with employment opportunities.
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2021 Best Tech Startups in Raleigh
09.08.2020
The Tech Tribune staff has compiled the very best tech startups in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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FLEETCOR and GreenPrint introduce first U.S. Fleet Card with 100% Tailpipe Emissions Offset
09.01.2020
FLEETCOR, a global leader in business payments, and GreenPrint, an environmental technology company, today announced the launch of the Fuelman Clean Advantage Fleet Card, the first U.S. card that automatically offsets 100% of tailpipe emissions from every gallon of fuel purchased.
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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, had spent 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, Integrations
06.24.2020
Fluree, a blockchain-based startup from North Carolina, has just revealed multiple partnerships and blockchain-related “integrations,” a press release notes.
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I deliver meals to quarantined families in Atlanta. We started with 10 deliveries a night and now we do over 2,500 each week
06.08.2020
Jasmine Crowe is the 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, but despite all their efforts, Crowe knows that millions more across the U.S. 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 $500K fund to keep moms employed during COVID
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
Last week Serena Williams announced 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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World’s 1st 3D Printed Neighborhood Being Built In Mexico
02.06.2020
The U.S.-based nonprofit New Story has teamed up with the tech company ICON to build the world’s first 3D printed neighborhood.
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Troy startup inks deal with Delta to bring bacteria-fighting lights to planes
01.24.2020
Vital Vio — the Troy-based company that designs lights meant to continuously kill bacteria — is working with Delta Air Lines Inc. to bring its antimicrobial LED lights to airplanes.
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Hate doing laundry? Startup 2ULaundry will deliver clean washing right to your doorstep
12.10.2019
A startup out of Charlotte, 2ULaundry, will do laundry for you — and it’s getting ready to launch in the Triangle soon.
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DEVCON Puts Down Roots With New Memphis HQ As It Pivots Its Cybersecurity Product
11.04.2019
This past October, cybersecurity startup DEVCON announced that it will be returning to Memphis to build its headquarters there.
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Robots are coming, but they won’t look like how we imagined, says Raleigh AI expert
10.04.2019
In as little as five years, says one Raleigh expert, artificial intelligent (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 after city inaction
09.05.2019
Moms in Chicago are taking 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.
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The AI entrepreneur who helped build Alexa begins his next venture in Raleigh
08.06.2019
Artificial intelligence innovator Igor Jablokov, whose first start up 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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His technology helped create Amazon’s Alexa. Now he wants to build something better.
08.05.2019
Igor Jablokov is working 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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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 has been 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 has bought 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, today at Xerocon 2019 announced 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 $1M in revenue – here’s how
05.08.2019
At 22, fresh out of NC State, Leigh-Kathryn Bonner launched 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
Bougher and TCPoly 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 announced today that it has raised $5m in a Series A Financing Round led by Nyca Partners (Nyca), with participation from existing investors, Engage, Bascom Ventures and VilCap Investments.
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Ivaldi Group is Now ISO 9001:2015 Certified
04.17.2019
In less than 10 months, California-based startup, Ivaldi Group, has become 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, today announced that it’s 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 $48M funding round for 3D printing startup
04.16.2019
UPS led a $48 million series B funding round for 3D printing startup Fast Radius.
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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 in a single talent recruitment and engagement engine, announced today that it has been selected by Engage--a venture fund backed by 11 leading global brands--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, an innovator in materials inventory and data management technology, announced today that it has joined the Dubai Future Accelerators (DFA) program in Dubai, UAE.
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Georgia Tech logistics startup Stord raises $12.4 million
04.06.2019
Stord Inc., an Atlanta-based warehousing and distribution startup spun out of Georgia Tech, has raised $12.4 million, the company reported April 5.
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Fast Radius Raises $48M to Expand Platform for Production-Grade Additive Manufacturing
04.02.2019
Fast Radius, a leading manufacturing technology company, announced today that they raised $48M 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, has secured another multimillion-dollar funding deal.
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There will soon be a whole community of ultra-low-cost 3D-printed homes
03.11.2019
Over the past year, in a lab in Austin, a team of engineers and materials scientists tweaked and tested the design of the “Vulcan II,” a massive, 33-by-11-foot machine that can 3D print the frame of a small house in less than a day, and later this year, it will begin printing a neighborhood of more than 50 homes.
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Freightwaves raises more equity, attracts top investors as it reaches to become billion dollar company in Chattanooga
02.25.2019
Freightwaves announced Monday 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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FreightWaves secures $20 million in Series B funding from corporate and strategic investors
02.25.2019
FreightWaves, a Chattanooga, TN-based provider of data and news for global freight markets, raised $20m in Series B financing round.
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How a City Under 200,000 People Is Outperforming Most Startup Hubs
02.11.2019
The motivated city of Chattanooga is becoming the progressive, risk-taking capital of the Southeast.
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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, today announced 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 has raised a $4 million Series A round led by BIP Capital with participation from Engage Ventures.
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Ready For Your Company To See The Light? Join The Next Manufacturing Revolution
01.10.2019
The findings of the World Economic Forum and McKinsey & Company underscore that the digital revolution has arrived, and as a result, companies must now adopt a paradigm shift in global production to stay competitive, resetting benchmarks in productivity and agility.
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The Enterprise Future for Voice-Activated AI
12.26.2018
Pryon Inc. Chief Executive Officer 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 $4.5M to beef up adtech security
12.19.2018
Adtech cybersecurity company Devcon announced today 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, today announced 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, today announced it has closed a seed round of funding led by Las Olas VC with participation from individual investors including Paul Judge, cofounder of TechSquare Labs and executive chairman of Pindrop, and Adam Ghetti, founder of Ionic Security.
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The Mom Project raises another $8 million
12.17.2018
The Mom Project, a two-year-old startup aimed at helping employers better utilize the often-underemployed pool of talent that leaves the workforce after having kids, has raised another $8 million.
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Warehousing Tech Startup STORD Moves to Double Headcount—Hiring 20+—Following Seed Round and Adding 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, today announced plans to hire 20+ following their April 2018 seed funding and 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
12.12.2018
Accenture today opened 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 Inc., an enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) company, today announced that Dr. David Nahamoo has joined the company as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Head of Research & Development.
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Chattanooga trucking museum to open downtown
12.02.2018
FreightWaves plans museum and library dedicated to entrepreneurs and companies.
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AchieveIt Completes Exclusive Atlanta Venture Fund Program
11.27.2018
AchieveIt Online, LLC, a leading provider of cloud-based enterprise software for planning and execution, today announced it has completed the Engage Ventures 2018 go-to-market growth program.
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3-D Printing an End to Homelessness
11.15.2018
ICON is working 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 Raises $5 Million in Latest Funding Round
11.15.2018
Pickup, a last-mile delivery service for furniture, has completed 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 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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PICKUP Raises $5 Million to Meet Demand for Instant Delivery of Big & Heavy Retail Items
11.13.2018
PICKUP, the trusted Last Fast Mile® for large-item delivery, has closed a $5 million funding round led by TDF Ventures and Noro-Moseley Partners and Engage, an Atlanta-based venture fund, has also participated in the round.
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Pryon raises $4.5 million for enterprise-focused ‘augmented intelligence’ platform
11.13.2018
Pryon today announced a $4.5 million first funding round led by Greycroft Partners, with participation from Two Sigma Ventures, Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, and Engage Ventures.
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The Entrepreneur Behind Alexa’s Tech Is Back With An AI Assistant For Companies
11.13.2018
With a new startup, Pryon, Igor Jablokov is aiming to create a voice-based AI cloud platform for employees at large companies.
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Pryon, an Enterprise AI and NLP Startup, Emerges from Stealth Mode and Announces $4.5M In Seed Funding
11.13.2018
Pryon Inc., an enterprise artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) startup, today announced it is coming out of stealth mode.
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Amari Ruff Builds His Trucking Company, Sudu Into a Multimillion Dollar Business
10.31.2018
Amari Ruff started Sudu, a trucking company based out of Atlanta, Ga in 2015.
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Atlanta Groundbreaker Awards- Engage Ventures
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 11 Fortune 500 businesses.
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Better Together: 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 (engage.vc) Managing Director Thiago Olson makes a strong case: 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 today announced plans to collaborate with local media publishers to create the largest ever study of ad fraud in the publishing industry.
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