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Trucking Tech Startup FreightWaves Closes $13M Series A From Logistics Tech VCs, Rise of the Rest, New York Jet

FreightWaves

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 […]

SalesLoft Raises $50M Series C to Double Workforce; Prepares to Launch New AI Product

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Atlanta-headquartered SalesLoft, the sales engagement platform, has closed a $50 million Series C funding round led by Insight Venture Partners, with participation from LinkedIn and existing investor Emergence Capital. This brings the company, which last year was ranked the seventh fastest-growing technology company in North America by Deloitte, up to $75 million in total outside funding. […]

Landing Lion Lands Half A Million Founder’s Round, Unveils New Look

Landing Lion

Landing Lion, a Techstars Atlanta graduate that produces a high-performance landing page platform for digital marketers, has closed on a $500,000 ‘founders round’ of funding. Contributors to the round included two partners from Austin-based Active Capital and Andy Powell, CEO of Atlanta’s CallRail. Alan Pledger, Landing Lion’s co-founder and CEO, says the investors they have brought […]

North Carolina Fintech Fast Mover nCino Closes Salesforce Ventures Funding

Fintech company nCino has taken in a strategic round of more than $51 million, led by existing investor Salesforce Venture, to aid global expansion and product innovation. The cloud-based bank operating system is built on the Salesforce platform and integrates with Salesforce Financial Services Cloud. “Salesforce has been a valued partner to nCino since our inception in […]

Supply Chain Optimization Startup Closes Mosley Ventures-Led Seed Round

Demand driven technologies

Demand Driven Technologies, which provides software solutions for large manufacturers to optimize their supply chain and inventories, has raised $1.6 million in a seed round led by Mosley Ventures, with participation from Alerion Ventures, Meeting Street Capital, and Service Provider Capital. DD Tech’s solutions are in the category of Demand Driven Material Requirements Planning (DDMRP), […]