This past February, Martech company Cardlytics (CDLX) rang the NASDAQ bell to announce the pricing of its public common stock offering, closing the day slightly above their initial price of $13 (at $13.37 per share). But that morning, as they headed over to Wall Street, the DOW was down 1200 points. “The night we priced the IPO […]
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 […]
Last week, Atlanta-based Cardlytics (CDLX) rang the NASDAQ bell to announce the pricing of its public common stock offering of 5,400,000 shares at $13 per share to raise $70.2 million before underwriting discounts and commissions. Prior to the IPO, Cardlytics had secured over $200 million in private funding. “We’ve experienced significant momentum recently,” says CEO and co-founder […]
Terrie O’Hanlon met now-CEO of cybersecurity company DefenseStorm Sean Feeney during their regular commutes on cross-country Delta flights to San Francisco. At the time, O’Hanlon was a Chief Marketing Officer at a technology company, in charge of their Atlanta office. Following news of acquisitions at both of their companies, O’Hanlon shared with Feeney that she was hoping […]
You have a rockstar sales team that brings in solid leads left and right. However, when it comes to closing those deals, the numbers may not be as strong. According to a recent study, that’s because about 80 percent of sales require at least five follow-ups — in contrast, 44 percent of salespeople give up […]