Could Atlanta be the final stop on the silk road of success for retail tech startups? As a region strong in fintech, payments, and marketing technology, many of the pieces already exist to drive the next level of brick-and-mortar retail (which, despite apocalyptic projections, is far from dead). Sid Mookerji, a highly-successful retail tech entrepreneur, […]
When Monique Villa moved to Nashville from LA at the end of 2017, she had only set foot in Tennessee a few times; she had very little exposure with the Southeast as a whole. So the natural researcher set out on a tour to learn about her new home. “I set out to take a […]
Anyone who reads Fortune or follows Crunchbase News on Twitter has heard about the “supergiant” funding rounds of today’s venture capital landscape — SoftBank and other mega-funds betting hundreds of millions, even billions, on relatively new companies. It stands that this phenomenon has altered startup funding across the spectrum. Indeed, an analysis conducted by TechCrunch earlier […]
Last month, Atlanta founder Michael Sengbusch penned a piece for Hypepotamus on the underrepresentation of southeastern startups at the TechCrunch Disrupt startup event in Silicon Valley. That underrepresentation means that not only are startups from the region missing out on the visibility and connections to capital, but those who live in the tech hubs are […]
Atlanta-based venture capital firm BIP Capital has released their State of Startups in the Southeast report for the second year, a comprehensive chronicle of recent activity in the region. The analysis offers a high-level look at trends that aren’t commonly well-reported in regions outside VC-heavy coastal cities — the amount of money invested in early-stage […]