In early 2017, Georgia state government made clear its commitment to growing and nurturing the state’s cybersecurity talent with the allocation of an initial $58 million, and then another $35 million, into the Hull McKnight Georgia Cyber Center for Innovation and Training. The campus of the Augusta-based center officially opened on July 10. “This visionary approach […]
In order to expand the footprint and resources for cybersecurity startups in Georgia, the soon-to-open Hull McKnight Georgia Cyber Center for Innovation and Training in Augusta has formed a strategic partnership with entrepreneur-focused non-profit theClubhou.se to manage its new innovation space, opening this July. The $100 million Cyber Center is the single largest investment in a cybersecurity facility […]
FasterCapital, a virtual incubator based in Dubai, is looking for southeastern startups and has placed boots on the ground to do it. Former Silicon Valley startup catalyst and technology entrepreneur Arthur Stepanyan is serving as the startup program’s first Regional Partner in the southeast and will be based in Atlanta. Stepanyan joins 130 Regional Partners […]
About 1 in 10 businesses nationwide are veteran-owned — according to the Small Business Administration, veterans are 45 percent more likely to be self-employed than non-veterans. When first starting out, they often need to take advantage of their local startup communities to learn how to translate the skills they learned in the field or to grow […]
“Fall in love with your problem, not your product,” says José Mallabo, the newly-appointed Savannah-based startup catalyst for the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), the state of Georgia’s technology startup incubator. ATDC has used their Savannah location to test many of the incubator’s smaller city programs — including a 12-week Startup Bootcamp that focuses on […]