What's In A Seed Round?
Seed rounds in 2025 are bigger, tougher, and more selective than ever. Southeast VCs like Overline, Cofounders Capital, and Valor Ventures share what they’re looking for...and what founders need to close a deal.
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Southeast-Based Investors Back Spidr, a Startup Helping Companies Navigate the ‘Complex Web’ of Modern Fintech
The future of BaaS (banking-as-a-service) is top of mind for fintech leaders around the world right now.
It's a major topic this week at Techcrunch Disrupt, a popular startup technology summit in San Francisco and is headlining thought pieces and news articles across the fintech
Cofounders Capital just closed a $50 M fund. Here's what it means for B2B startups across the Southeast.
The amount of potential seed money in the Southeast startup world is growing yet again.
Cofounders Capital, an early-stage VC firm in North Carolina, recently closed a $50 million fund. The fund, the third in the company’s history, is also the largest amount raised by David Gardner, Tim
Atlanta Insurtech Startup Slope Software Raises $1M From Cofounders Capital
Insurtech SaaS startup Slope Software, based in the Atlanta suburb of Chamblee, recently had its own future slightly more insured, thanks to a seed round investment from Cofounders Capital.
Founded by an actuary and a software engineer—veteran insurance industry professional Andy Smith and CTO Taylor Perkins, respectively—Slope announced
Asheville-based Environmental Data Startup Ecobot Announces Seed Raise, Launches App
Asheville, North Carolina-based environmental monitoring, reporting, and data forecasting startup Ecobot has raised $700,000 in seed funding, bringing total investment to over $1 million, according to CEO Lee Lance.
Lance says Ecobot will use the capital to grow staff in sales and product development, which he calls “the
Environmental Fieldwork Is Slow and Tedious, So A Scientist and Tech Founder Are Digitizing It
Often, even before a real estate developer or construction work moves the first piece of dirt on a property, they must conduct extensive environmental assessments to make sure that building on that land won’t have detrimental effects on the local environment. To do this work, environmental services companies dispatch
Election Management Startup EasyVote Solutions Raises $1.5M to Streamline Elections' Backend
EasyVote Solutions, a three-year-old Georgia-based startup that provides election management software to clients including the city of Atlanta and state of South Carolina, has raised $1.5 million to expand its product nationally. The capital was raised by North Carolina venture capital firm CoFounders Capital.
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