Ionic Security, the Atlanta-based data security company, has announced a growth capital raise of $40 million led by JPMorgan Chase & Co, with participation from new investor Google and existing investors Kleiner Perkins, GV, Icon Ventures, Meritech Capital, TechOperators, and Ten Eleven Ventures. This fundraise, which brings the late-stage startup’s total capital raised to over […]
This is part of our How We Work series, which focuses on how successful southeastern tech companies are developing authentic work cultures. “‘Culture’ is just novel ways of doing creative, random stuff,” COO Bruce Johnson shares as he walks around FullStory’s current office in Atlanta’s Armour Yards complex. The startup’s co-founder gave a colorful example of that […]
Google’s cloud platform provides reliable, highly scalable infrastructure for developers to build, test and deploy apps. It covers application, storage and computing services for backend, mobile and web. Google Cloud’s advantages over other platforms? Google-grade security, billing by the second (so you don’t pay for what you don’t use!), next-generation big data capabilities, and a […]
Amol Naik started his legal career in a relatively traditional fashion — after graduating from Emory Law School he worked as a litigator at a large firm, eventually using his former political experience to start a political law practice at the firm. “In addition to representing a number of Democratic elected officials around the Southeast and working […]
Computing makes up two-thirds of projected new jobs in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) — the fastest growing job industry overall. Yet, less than half of all high schools incorporate computer science courses or education, a number that declines even more when looking down toward junior high and elementary schools. The discipline also has […]