Startups

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…

One of the few female founder accelerators to exist is burning through the startup atmosphere and levitating women-led businesses to new heights. LaunchPad2x‘s three-day core intensive bootcamp and yearlong education program helps selected participants…

Haiti was blown into a state of disaster last week with the arrival of Hurricane Matthew. Its winds rushed at 145 miles per hour, leaving 60,000 Haitians homeless and, reportedly, 1,000 people…