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Monday Fund-Day: Who Raised What in the Startup South — April 19-25

How do you get to almost $140 million in funding in one week? Well, apparently it helps if you're a payment automation platform in Charlotte, an outdoor care software startup, and a nutrition product provider, all at once. Welcome back to Monday Fund-Day, your start-of-the-

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#NewNormal: How Food-Oriented Startups GettaBite and Sifted Pivoted In The Face of Coronavirus

“Man, it’s been wild,” Federico Castellucci III says over the phone. It was the beginning of April, and the president and CEO of Castellucci Hospitality Group was preparing to debut a new pop-up, takeout steakhouse concept Castellucci & Sons. (It did well enough that the company introduced a

Lafayette Julius

Coronavirus Startup Survival Stories: Lafayette Julius of Evolve Sports

The novel coronavirus COVID-19 is impacting businesses across the globe, including Southern startups. We want to know how you're being affected, as a startup founder, employee, investor or general member of the community. We're publishing selected stories sent directly from you, only making edits where

Charles Barkley

Monday Fund-Day: Who Raised What in the Startup South — April 12-18

In the seven days leading up to Saturday, April 18, tech startups around the Southeast raised about $4M — and the only part that makes that figure somewhat unclear is because of Charles Barkley. There’s a joke in there somewhere, but now probably isn’t the time. But it is

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Curricula Offers Free Phishing Test For Employees Because Even In a Pandemic Some Hackers Are Trash

As if we needed anything else to make life more complicated during the COVID-19 pandemic, there's breaking news that evil hackers are still as terrible as ever. Because of this, Atlanta-based cybersecurity video training platform Curricula is now offering a free coronavirus phishing test to companies

Thad Oviatt Parkent Cycles

Coronavirus Startup Survival Stories: Thad Oviatt of Parkent Cycles

The novel coronavirus COVID-19 is impacting businesses across the globe, including Southern startups. We want to know how you're being affected, as a startup founder, employee, investor or general member of the community. We're publishing selected stories sent directly from you, only making edits where

Money Money Money

Monday Fund-Day: Who Raised What in the Startup South -- April 5-12

Contrary to popular belief, capital is still flowing into the coffers of startups around the South. Not only did an Atlanta company score a $6.6M win (hopefully helping it deliver more Ls to counterfeiters), but there was activity in North Carolina and even Arkansas last week. Got news about

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