SaaS

Last week, Deanna Meador closed a $1.5 million seed round from 11 different investors in just 8 hours, setting a record for a startup round in Tennessee.  The historic investment…

The amount of potential seed money in the Southeast startup world is growing yet again.  Cofounders Capital, an early-stage VC firm in North Carolina, recently closed a $50 million fund.…

While the phrase “rocket ship growth” is thrown around frequently by startups, few early-stage ventures have the credentials to back up such claims. Atlanta-based Saleo looks to be one that…

Less than a month after closing a $62 million venture round, Atlanta-based MessageGears is already making good on its strategic hiring and international expansion plans.  The team announced this week…

If you’ve ever stayed up late reformatting slides, emailed back-and-forth to get approved logos to add to a deck, or tried to track down your boss to get the most…

There’s an important agreement between brands and customers who opt into email communication, says Roger Barnette, CEO at MessageGears.  “Customers are saying I need [brands] to deliver content in channels…

The numbers speak for themselves  – B2B SaaS startups across the Southeast region were certainly busy this year scaling and helping enterprise clients navigate uncertain economic conditions.  Which startups made…

In 2020, the Hypepotamus team wrote that it would be a good idea to keep an eye on Sevetri Wilson, a New Orleans tech entrepreneur and founder of nonprofit business…