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Tavia

Dollar Shave Club-For-Feminine Products Aims to Keep Girls In Africa In School

When Eileen Stephens' college-aged daughter brought home Half the Sky, a book about women in the developing world, Stephens expected to read about oppression, malnutrition and inequity. But there was one situation detailed in the book that she had never heard anyone talk about, much less try to

This Startup Helps Weather Disaster Evacuees Find Temporary Shelter

Hurricane season 2017 was a busy one — storms Harvey and Irma brought destructive winds and millions of evacuees. At one point during Hurricane Irma's Florida evacuation, nearly 7 million were ordered to leave their homes to seek safety and shelter away from the storm. "I was watching

AvidXchange

Southern Payments Unicorn Brings In Chief Growth Officer From Fiserv to “Double Revenue”

Payments technology platform AvidXchange, one of the few southeastern companies valued at over a billion dollars, has pulled in a Chief Growth Officer with 25+ years experience growing fintech revenue streams and sales. Dan Drees, most recently of Fiserv, will be responsible for the go-to market of AvidXchange’s

Queen City Fintech Accelerator Pulls From Three Continents For Spring Cohort

Queen City Fintech Accelerator Pulls From Three Continents For Spring Cohort

North Carolina’s Queen City Fintech, the only financial technology-focused startup accelerator in the Southeast, has recruited ten companies for its 2018 spring cohort. The accelerator's eighth program drew 150 applications from post-revenue startups in 18 countries and 20 states. Half of the cohort is international

BLKTECH

BLKTECH Fills A Gap In Charlotte For Tech Entrepreneurs of Color

North Carolina already performs well as a good place to land for entrepreneurs of color — Durham is ranked a top city for black-owned businesses and plays host to the Black Wall Street Homecoming entrepreneurship conference as well as Google for Entrepreneurs Exchange for Black Founders. Now, a young organization

With $43M Series C, Mobile Parking Payments Startup Passport Fuels International Expansion

With $43M Series C, Mobile Parking Payments Startup Passport Fuels International Expansion

Mobile transportation payments provider Passport announced a Series C funding round of $43 million from Bain Capital Ventures, a growth equity firm that has also invested in quickly-scaling startups such as Jet.com, DocuSign, AvidXchange, LinkedIn, and SurveyMonkey. The round, announced last month, followed a 300 percent revenue growth

Charitable Giving Startup uBack Partners With Bank of America to Power Up Mobile Donations

Charitable Giving Startup uBack Partners With Bank of America to Power Up Mobile Donations

In effort to expand reach and scale the platform, charitable giving fintech startup uBack has partnered with Bank of America, giving them access to more than 24 million customers. Once those users are on the platform, they have the option to easily give back to more than 800,000 non-