The Southeast’s Next Big SportsTech Play: Wunderfan Turns Fan Energy into Real Rewards
Birmingham-based Wunderfan is changing how sports fans engage, rewarding users for showing up, tuning in, and cheering on their favorite teams.
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Coronavirus Startup Survival Stories: Ashlee Ammons of Mixtroz
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
Birmingham-Based LegalTech Startup Case Status Lands Second Seed Round from BIP Capital
Lauren Sturdivant simply got “tired of drowning.”
“Every morning, I walked into my office and I had 30-plus emails and 25-plus voicemails. And more often than not, I was answering the same questions from clients,” says the former attorney.
She knew that technology would offer her the lifeline
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
Networking Startup Mixtroz Raises $1 Million Seed Round Following Rise of the Rest Win
Mixtroz, a platform that facilitates better networking at events, has raised a $1 million seed round. This follows the mother-daughter founder duo's win of a $100K investment at Revolution's Rise of the Rest pitch competition in Birmingham, Alabama this past May.
"I think in
INFLCR Makes Sure Influencers — From College Athletes to Political Supporters — Actually Have Good Content
“The eyeballs of people are continuously migrating from the television and traditional media to the phone and social media to consume their content,” shares entrepreneur Jim Cavale. “So these eyes are migrating to the social media accounts of individual people, but they’re not content producers.”
“I wanted to create
Meet the Southern Startups Selected for Alabama's Velocity Accelerator
Birmingham’s Velocity Accelerator, the only startup accelerator program in the state of Alabama, has selected its second class of companies to join the three-month program. Eight startups, including six from the southeast, will receive $50,000 and begin the program in January.
Velocity Accelerator is based at Innovation