Startups

Nine early-stage startups across Louisiana, all recent graduates of the VILLAGEx accelerator program, recently brought in $9.5 million.  For Jon Atkinson, CEO of The Idea Village, it shows the momentum…

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…

There’s nothing better than a food startup making waves — we are guaranteed to get delicious food in exciting new ways. From staying true to natural ingredients to finding new…

Techstars, the global accelerator that helps entrepreneurs build great businesses, welcomes 10 startups to the activation of its Atlanta program. With applications hailing from 69 countries and six continents, the…