Startups

Katherine Shayne didn’t necessarily see entrepreneurship on her career roadmap. But she was finishing up her master’s at the University of Georgia and working on research at the UGA New…

James Oliver, Jr. is ready to make a ‘buzz’ in the startup world by playing matchmaker.  Kabila, which Oliver describes as “Bumble for co-founders,” is about helping entrepreneurs find their…

10 of Israel’s top mobility startups are on a great American roadshow with Drive TLV, and Atlanta was their second stop after Silicon Valley.  This highlighted Israel’s strong connection to…

An international clean energy company is looking a little closer to home these days as it tries to change the narrative around renewable energy sources.  Charleston, South Carolina-based Palmetto had…

Nine early-stage startups across Louisiana recently graduated from the VILLAGEx accelerator program, and a subset of them brought in a combined $9.5 million in funding.  For Jon Atkinson, CEO of…

Next Century Spirits, a spirits technology company born in 2018 in Raleigh, North Carolina, has closed a $6 million Series C funding round with Chapel Hill-based private equity firm Blue…

Not even the World Health Organization’s declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic could put a total halt on funding around the South this week. Among those startups who closed noteworthy…

Social entrepreneurs are hard at work every day to help the Atlanta community prosper, but often their hard work goes unnoticed. Content startup Gather Good is here to provide a megaphone for those entrepreneurs…