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Visual no-code website builder Makeswift raises $3 million

Visual no-code website builder Makeswift raises $3 million

It’s time for marketers to have more control over their company’s websites, says the team behind Makeswift. Instead of relying on engineering teams to make template updates or manage pages, the Atlanta-based platform envisions a digital world in which the hard coded websites are out while headless

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Atlanta-based Website Builder Makeswift Scores $1.5M Equity Raise

Atlanta-based website building company Makeswift has raised $1.5 million in equity in its most recent funding round. Pat Matthews, founder and CEO of Active Capital, led the round, with participation from 10 other investors. The four-year-old company, formerly known as Landing Lion, had previously raised $500,

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How Makeswift, Formerly Landing Lion, Is Guiding Customers Through A Pivot

Alan Pledger, founder of Techstars Atlanta graduate company Landing Lion, thought his product could do better. Landing Lion aimed to solve a problem Pledger had identified while working as a software consultant: the difficulty faced by non-technical marketers when they needed to quickly put together a website. They often

Landing Lion Lands Half A Million Founder's Round, Unveils New Look

Landing Lion, a Techstars Atlanta graduate that produces a high-performance landing page platform for digital marketers, has closed on a $500,000 ‘founders round’ of funding. Contributors to the round included two partners from Austin-based Active Capital and Andy Powell, CEO of Atlanta’s CallRail. Alan Pledger, Landing

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Marketers' Ideas Can Roar With Landing Lion's Speedy and Simple Page Builder

You have an idea — for a blog, or an e-commerce site, or a campaign to drive users to your new service. You write the copy, create visuals, and plan social media posts — but you need one last thing: a website. Unfortunately, most web projects, even simple ones, can take

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Meet the Newest Stars Of the ATL Tech Scene: Techstars Atlanta Announces 2017 Class

Globally-connected accelerator program Techstars Atlanta has announced the 10 companies that will be starring in its 2017 class. Applications for the program, which is presented in partnership with Cox Enterprises, came from 42 countries — with over 40 percent from the southeast and over a third from international companies. “One

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Like Father, Like Son — These Duos Went from Family to Startup Partners

It’s one thing to take over the family business. But it’s another thing to go straight into a new business venture with your dad. This presents a whole new set of challenges — like not knowing if you should call your partner by his name or ‘dad’ when in