A growing public relations technology startup has acquired Atlanta-based social influencer database Insightpool. TrendKite, a five-year-old startup out of Austin, TX, announced the acquisition of Insightpool last week for an undisclosed sum. Insightpool was started in 2012 by a group of serial Atlanta entrepreneurs and initially funded by a group of Atlanta area angel investors […]
Atlanta-based event management technology startup Gather has acquired digital venue marketplace EVENTup in a move that will bring together over 12,500 restaurants and venues under one platform. The combined company will continue both organizations’ missions to help event venues and planners connect more easily with consumers and increase revenue for their businesses. “The EVENTup team has a deep understanding […]
New York-based Peloton, the live streaming fitness startup that last year hit a billion-dollar valuation, has made its first acquisition in Atlanta-based B2B music technology company Neurotic Media. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Peloton has expanded from its original service of live streamed cycling classes with paired hardware to treadmill-based running classes, in-person […]
Healthcare data solutions company Verscend has acquired Atlanta-based healthcare payments company Cotiviti (NYSE: COTV) for $4.9 billion in cash. According to the company, the acquisition is an opportunity to combine their tools create a more robust solution that addresses the estimated $900 billion in healthcare wasted costs. “We are excited to be combining with Verscend and believe that together […]
Last week, fintech unicorn Kabbage announced the hiring of a new CTO, their first since 2016. James Chou, formerly of Shutterstock and WorkMarket, has a long history of growing scaling technology companies’ product portfolio and capabilities. Chou most recently served as CTO at WorkMarket, a cloud-based workforce management solution provider that sold to software giant ADP […]