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…
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Valor Ventures Targets $25M For Second Fund Focused On Financial Inclusion
by Holly Beilinby Holly BeilinValor Ventures, an Atlanta-based, early-stage venture capital firm, has announced the first close of its second fund. Valor is targeting $25 million for the fund in total and has closed…
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Entertainer-Endorsed VC ‘The Fearless Fund’ Will Provide Capital and Influence to Women of Color Founders
by Holly Beilinby Holly BeilinA new venture capital firm has launched to reap returns from a highly-underrepresented demographic: women of color entrepreneurs. Statistically, this population represents less than one percent of the total venture…
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Loeb.atl, A ‘Venture Collective’ Founded By Media Tech Entrepreneur Michael Loeb, Opens For Business
by Holly Beilinby Holly Beilin“We are not incubation. We are curation,” Michael Loeb tells Hypepotamus. Loeb is the president and CEO of Loeb Enterprises, a New York City-based ‘venture collective’ which functions as both…
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New Venture Fund, Accelerator Silicon Road Searches For Retail Tech Gold In Atlanta
by Holly Beilinby Holly BeilinCould Atlanta be the final stop on the silk road of success for retail tech startups? As a region strong in fintech, payments, and marketing technology, many of the pieces…
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Monique Villa Brings A Modern Eye to Investing in the Southeast
by Holly Beilinby Holly BeilinWhen Monique Villa moved to Nashville from LA at the end of 2017, she had only set foot in Tennessee a few times; she had very little exposure with the…
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Invest Georgia-Backed Knoll Ventures Fills A Funding Gap for the Southeast’s Early-Stage Startups
by Holly Beilinby Holly BeilinAnyone who reads Fortune or follows Crunchbase News on Twitter has heard about the “supergiant” funding rounds of today’s venture capital landscape — SoftBank and other mega-funds betting hundreds of…
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VC Deal Size in the Southeast Is Increasing — And You Get More Bang for Your Buck Than On the Coasts
by Holly Beilinby Holly BeilinAtlanta-based venture capital firm BIP Capital has released their State of Startups in the Southeast report for the second year, a comprehensive chronicle of recent activity in the region. The…