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SalesLoft Opens EMEA Headquarters In London With LinkedIn Veteran At the Helm

SalesLoft, one of the Southeast's fastest-growing software companies, has expanded across the pond. This week, they opened their Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) headquarters in London. The London office will be led by Ollie Sharpe, SalesLoft's new VP of EMEA Revenue. Sharpe formerly worked

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Why One Fintech CEO Says You Can't Build the Best Products Without A Diverse Workforce

Martina King sees her tech teams as a crime fighting force. As CEO of payments fraud prevention company Featurespace, King oversees a workforce 200 strong across two continents. The UK-based executive, named one of the most influential women in payments, joined the company following executive roles in media, technology,

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Can Healthcare Join the Gig Economy? Matchwell Says Yes

The on-demand job marketplace has filled workforce gaps and increased efficiency in many industries — temporary restaurant and retail labor, babysitting and caretaking, even dog-walking. But can the same model be used to fill critical gaps and provide better flexibility in complex, highly-regulated industries — say, healthcare? Only if

RCIE

Minority-Focused Russell Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Opens to First Members

In the year since Jay Bailey has taken over at the Herman J. Russell Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a business-building incubator that aims to broaden opportunity for minority residents, the native Atlantan entrepreneur has been busy. RCIE occupies a 50,000 square foot campus in Castleberry Hill, a

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Techstars LegalTech Firm Is the Latest Startup Heading to Birmingham For New Opportunity

It’s not often that you hear a founder describe the process of working with an investor as “really falling in love,” but that’s what Lauren Sturdivant describes when she talks about her seed round investor, the Alabama Futures Fund. Beyond leading the $725K seed round in Sturdivant’s

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Warner Music Boost Fund's First Investment Is A Universal Instrument Startup

Universal instrument startup Artiphon has become the first public investment for Warner Music Group’s Boost fund, a seed-stage fund for innovative music startups. WMG’s investment was part of the Nashville-based startup’s first institutional round, a $2 million seed. Jacob Gordon, Artiphon's co-founder

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Two Years In, Atlanta's Ascend2020 Graduates One Of the Country's Biggest Minority Tech Founder Cohorts

In a nondescript auditorium at Morehouse College, two dozen entrepreneurs pitched their growing or recently-formed startup concept to a room of investors, community members, and supporters. Last week’s event looked just like any other of the countless Demo Days that take place across the country, except for one