After a 3-year stint at a merchandising company in their native Latvia, Martins Bratuskins, Reinis Skorovs, and Andris Merkulovs found a glaring issue in the $60 million gaming market: the difficulty of monetization. Their solution manifested in the startup Monetizr, a blockchain-based game reward engine that enhances gamers’ experiences by rewarding them with Monetizr tokens, and helps […]
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 […]
You have an idea — for a blog, or an e-commerce site, or a campaign to drive users to your new service. You write the copy, create visuals, and plan social media posts — but you need one last thing: a website. Unfortunately, most web projects, even simple ones, can take weeks or even months […]
The additive manufacturing market, otherwise known as 3D printing, surpassed $5 billion in 2015. With industries from automobile to furniture to attire using the process, it stands to grow even more in years ahead. But in order to produce basic parts like the soles of shoes or automobile parts, 3D printers usually first require a tooling […]
Techstars Atlanta graduate Vlipsy, a startup that allows users to search for and share short, sound-enabled video clips from popular culture (think GIFs, but with sound), has raised funding from Cox Enterprises as part of a $1.3 million seed round. Additional investors include JumpStart Inc., North Coast Angel Fund and Impact Angel Fund. “This seed […]