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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VCs & sports enthusiasts back Atlanta-based Pickleheads, a platform serving 1 million players each month
For Ade and many others, pickleball isn’t just a passion, it’s a business opportunity. To support the growing community of entrepreneurial players, Pickleheads recently launched new features, a payment processing tool, allowing organizers to host and monetize in-person events directly through the pl
Get To Know Jeff Perkins, The New CEO of Nashville-based Soundstripe
Perkins initially connected with the Soundstripe team last year through Atlanta-based Overline VC, one of MusicTech's investors.
Offices are out. But Switchyards is planning a major "work club" expansion...with 200 new locations across the country
At the start of 2024, commercial real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield put the Atlanta office vacancy rate at a record 24.6%.
That rate is similar over in Charlotte, Raleigh, and Tampa.
But it isn’t just Southeastern office spaces that are struggling. Across the US, office-using employment
Atlanta-based Danti lands contract that shows need for searchable Earth data for national defense
Just four months after coming out of stealth mode, Atlanta-based Danti has landed a new contract that will bring their AI-powered search capabilities into the US Space Force, the newest branch of the US Armed Forces.
Danti just announced it was awarded a $1.2 million contract with
No algorithms. No competition: Any Distance app launches a healthy type of social network.
Health probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think about logging onto a social networking site. Atlanta-based fitness tracking app Any Distance wants to change that.
The startup announced today the launch of Active Clubs as the latest way to help people get moving
Electric Growth: Birmingham-based Condoit raises seed round as EV charging needs grow
We’re living during a “Gold Rush” era of electrification, says Birmingham founder Ian Hoppe. And that means big business for his startup Condoit, an energy management tool. Because in the midst of this electrification gold rush, Hoppe said Condoit is “selling shovels.”
We last spoke with Hoppe in April