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North Carolina Fintech Fast Mover nCino Closes Salesforce Ventures Funding

North Carolina Fintech Fast Mover nCino Closes Salesforce Ventures Funding

Fintech company nCino has taken in a strategic round of more than $51 million, led by existing investor Salesforce Venture, to aid global expansion and product innovation. The cloud-based bank operating system is built on the Salesforce platform and integrates with Salesforce Financial Services Cloud. "Salesforce has been

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TSYS Acquires Boston-Based Payments Tech Company for About $1B to Serve More Small to Mid-Size Businesses

Payments solutions giant TSYS has acquired payments technology and merchant-acquiring company Cayan for $1.05 billion in cash. The acquisition will help Columbus, Georgia-based TSYS grow their client base for merchant acquiring in the small and medium-sized business (SMB) market, a major focus for their strategic goals

This Knoxville Startup Uses Machine Learning to Create Super-Personalized Mass Emails

This Knoxville Startup Uses Machine Learning to Create Super-Personalized Mass Emails

When measuring marketing campaigns, engagement rates count the most. Personalized emails had a 29 percent higher open rate and 41 percent higher click rates than emails without any personalization, according to a recent study. Surprisingly, however, 70 percent of brands fail to use this feature. Knoxville-based Lirio uses machine

Kabbage Picks Up $200M Credit Facility To Seed More and Larger Loans

Kabbage Picks Up $200M Credit Facility To Seed More and Larger Loans

Atlanta-based fintech unicorn Kabbage, which facilitates technology-driven loans for small businesses, has added a $200 million lending source to its coffers with a revolving credit facility from Credit Suisse. The facility will allow the company to serve even more businesses with larger loans and higher lines of credit.

Fueled by Atlanta Investors, Payments Tech Provider Fattmerchant Beefs Up In Transaction Alley

Fueled by Atlanta Investors, Payments Tech Provider Fattmerchant Beefs Up In Transaction Alley

Atlanta's Transaction Alley is getting a new tenant — payments technology provider Fattmerchant. The Orlando-based fintech startup, which pitched onstage at the Venture Atlanta conference earlier this month, announced a $5.5 million funding round led by Atlanta-based Fulcrum Equity Partners. The capital will kickstart Fattmerchant'

Georgia's Major Fintech Players Help Startups Bring the Money to Vegas

Georgia's Major Fintech Players Help Startups Bring the Money to Vegas

The largest payments and financial services innovation event, Money 20/20, descended this week on Las Vegas for leaders in commerce, retail, mobile, and more to convene on a topic we all have a stake in — the future of money. And amongst those 10,000+ attendees were about 1,000

Tech Titan: Rapper T.I. Pumps 'Mulaah' Into the Atlanta Startup Scene

Tech Titan: Rapper T.I. Pumps 'Mulaah' Into the Atlanta Startup Scene

Rapper and entertainer Clifford Joseph ‘T.I.’ Harris, Jr. has made multiple plays in Atlanta's tech startup scene recently. The artist announced his partnership with both an early-stage fintech platform founded by two Georgia Tech engineering grads, and a scaling logistics technology startup, Sudu. He made investments