The Engage fund, an Atlanta-based venture fund and startup program backed by 11 corporations including Delta, Goldman Sachs, the Home Depot and UPS, as well as Georgia’s venture fund Invest Georgia, has expanded its team with the addition of Daley Ervin as Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Ervin has been serving as a startup mentor with Engage since the […]
FreightWaves, a fast-growing startup drawing attention for its data analytics and content platform, focused on the freight market, has closed an oversubscribed Series A round of $13 million. The round was led by logistics-focused 8VC with participating investors including Fontinalis Partners, Story Ventures, Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and […]
This spring and summer, there will be hundreds of thousands of new residents in Atlanta affected by Georgia’s infamous pollen season. These buzzing Atlantans (no, not Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets) will be busy traversing thousands of acres across the city to make it a more fertile, flowered and sustainable place. They are honeybees, and they’re […]
Global financial firm Goldman Sachs has joined as the newest partner in Atlanta’s Engage, the venture capital fund that serves as the largest group of corporate investors in one fund. This makes 11 companies, along with state-funded institutional investor Invest Georgia, that have contributed a total of $18 million to Engage. Engage has invested in […]
When Craig Fuller started FreightWaves, a niche publication focused on the freight, supply chain and logistics industries, he was focused on educating the world about his other startup, TransRisk. That company provides a market data analytics and tracking dashboard akin to a Bloomberg Terminal. “It was intended to basically educate the market about the idea […]