What all happened this week? We’ve got a quick round up on the big stories, funding rounds, and other ecosystem news you need to know from across the Southeast.
Startup Funding News
PetScreening®, which offers the rental housing industry’s first and leading pet policy management software at no cost to property owners and managers, today announced it has received $80 million in Series B funding. The funding round was led by leading technology-focused investment firms Volition Capital and Guidepost Growth Equity. Details here.
Chattanooga-based Ruedata, a startup focus on tire data and analytics for fleets, raised a seed round from Atlanta-based Valor Ventures. Read more as the team prepares for the SXSW conference here.
Acquisition News
Tampa-based Advantive, an industry-leading mission-critical specialty software provider, today announced its acquisition of Commerce Vision, a leading digital commerce platform in Australia and New Zealand. More details here.
Other News Across The Ecosystem
Danti, the Atlanta-based and venture-backed searchable Earth data startup, launched its public sector offering after a year of working with the U.S. Space Force, NGA, intelligence units, and government agencies. The AI-powered platform lets users, experts and non-experts alike, ask questions in natural language and get real-time, data-driven answers by synthesizing information from government, commercial, and open data sources. More details here.
Durham, North Carolina-based Tune Therapeutics named John McHutchison AO, MD will be its new CEO and Chairman of the Board. Press release on what it means for the BioTech company can be found here.
