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January Funding Round-Up
Believe it or not, we are on to the second month of 2012. January ushered in the fruitful Lunar New Year of the Water Dragon and a bumper crop of funding events for numerous Atlanta area companies. With amounts …
Atlanta Start-Ups in the News
Unless you are Google or Facebook, securing media coverage is a daunting task. And for start-ups, the business of getting press is at least twice as difficult. But for these six Venture Atlanta alumni, 2012 appears to be starting off …
Chicks Rule at StartupChicks’ 3rd Annual Pitch Competition
Twelve companies, six minutes and four slides. Those were the digits that mattered last Wednesday as more than 70 women gathered at the Hodges Room in ATDC for the third annual StartupChicks Pitch Competition. The annual competition is open to …
Flashpoint Reactions
The first demo day for the companies participating in the Flashpoint accelerator program came and earlier this week without incident. Crammed into the GTRI auditorium were a veritable who’s who of the Atlanta technology scene. Kinetic Ventures‘ Nelson Chu, Noro-Moseley …
Attention Entrepreneurs: New Year New Seed Fund
It’s 2012 and metro Atlanta start-ups have another source of seed funding. The Locust 151 Partners Fund One is a $100,000 seed fund led by a team of successful local entrepreneurs who do double duty as mentors to local start-ups. …
