Comcast NBCUniversal’s The Farm has opened its brand new, 12,000-square-foot space at The Battery Atlanta. The space will be home to startups accepted into The Farm’s accelerator program, which is part of Comcast’s LIFT Labs for Entrepreneurs program, along with co-working desks, a hardware lab, and event space. The accelerator is a program of Boomtown, a […]
IgniteHQ, a startup hub in Marietta, Georgia, has partnered with India-based venture development firm to bring their accelerator programming and global development opportunities to U.S. entrepreneurs. Commence Mint will replicate its already-successful program at IgniteHQ, providing accepted startups with funding, education opportunities, mentorship, advising, and a trip to India. Commence Mint operates both an early-stage fund […]
On Monday, global startup network Techstars announced a new accelerator program to be located in North Carolina’s Research Triangle park (RTP), specifically in Cary. The MetLife Digital Accelerator, Techstars’ second program in the Southeast following industry-agnostic Techstars Atlanta, will focus on insurance technologies. Insurance technology — insurtech — is big business amongst the trillion-dollar insurance industry […]
Grade school textbooks often show only a handful of lucrative careers — the usual suspects like lawyer, doctor, or celebrity/athlete. Or so Jake Hare thought. Hare’s childhood wasn’t easy — he grew up in California in a working class family that was, for a time during his teen years, living out of a car with no real […]
The Farm, the Atlanta-based startup accelerator backed by Comcast NBCUniversal and directed by Boulder-based startup program Boomtown, has announced Burunda Prince-Jones as its Managing Director. Prince-Jones is an management executive with an entrepreneurial background, who most recently operated a high-performance consulting firm. Now, she’ll lead entrepreneurs through a personalized, fast-paced program designed to help them […]