Profiles

COVID-19 is impacting businesses across the globe, including Southern startups. We want to know how you’re being affected, as a startup founder, employee, investor or general member of the community.…

The novel coronavirus COVID-19 is impacting businesses across the globe, including Southern startups. We want to know how you’re being affected, as a startup founder, employee, investor or general member…

Shila Nieves Burney has had enough of being rebuffed, although she doesn’t fear it. “I’m a lot older than the typical entrepreneur,” she quips. But righteous indignation seeps through her…

“When you’re really being challenged, what can you bring to bear?” That’s a question Dr. Nammy Vedire, director of platform and operations at Atlanta-based VC group Engage, says she asks…

As the newly minted executive editor of the Women’s Entrepreneurship Initiative (WEI), Monica Hooks is well aware she has a legacy to uphold. That mandate would shake anyone growing into…

In a world where companies often ignore profit and raise more and more capital to double down on a specific vision, Cox Enterprises stands apart. The 120-year-old, family-run company has…

Earlier this summer, Cox Enterprises and global accelerator Techstars announced that they were extending their partnership to launch a second Techstars program in Atlanta, this one focused on social impact…

Investor Real Talk will dive into the deep end with the folks that hold the pocketbook in the startup world. We’ll get into angel funding, VC, growth equity, and even…