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Engage Talent

ENGAGE Talent Raises Again to Bring AI Recruiting and Employee Retention to the Enterprise

AI recruiting company ENGAGE Talent has raised a $3.5 million funding round led by High Alpha Capital and Grand Ventures. The Charleston, SC-based startup plans to invest heavily in product acceleration and customer acquisition. Existing investors, new investor Engage fund, and Silicon Valley Bank also participated in the

Narrative

This Social Network Pays Its Users to Create, Curate, and Monitor Their Own Content

The debate over how to monitor and police a social media platform has reached new heights in the past few months — how much do users of Facebook, Twitter and the rest actually get to dictate what they see in their feeds? How much power should be given to these companies

Engage Talent

Charleston AI Recruiting Startup Lands $3M, Opens Atlanta Office

ENGAGE Talent, an artificial intelligence-driven software tool that helps HR professionals recruit smarter, has raised $3 million from investors across the country including Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and Midwestern-based Refinery Ventures and Grand Ventures. Amongst their plans for the funding is a new office

ALIS Health

These Female Founders Built An Affordable Genetic Test Marketplace To Tackle the Gender Health Disparity

After years of working in the biotech and life science industries — and facing their own challenges as female entrepreneurs — Kerranna Williamson and Amy Domangue saw a unique opportunity to flip the script on women’s health. Their Charleston-based startup, ALIS Health, works to transform women’s medical care by

erik holmberg

How This Former Developer Is Riding the South's Maker Movement With His Retail Brand

A software developer turned bag maker? An unlikely story, for sure, but one of passion, perseverance, and finding purpose — even when the world says tech is the answer. Erik Holmberg spent over a decade working as a software developer with major brands like Progressive, Blackbaud, and Fuzzco before founding his

Wavve Makes Audio A Visual Medium

Wavve Makes Audio A Visual Medium

Podcasting continues to grow as a medium to tell stories, entertain audiences, and provide information — 21 percent of Americans age 12 and up listened to a podcast in the past month, up from 17 percent in 2015. However, in an era where social media marketing is also growing, podcasters may