April 20, 2022 - Immigrants to the United States face myriad challenges besides having to learn a new language. In many cases, they are dealing with a foreign and complex financial system, may struggle with finding adequate housing and healthcare, and often are just generally feeling lost.
April 20, 2022 - Founders Paul Judge and Ryan Glover knew little about banking, but 700,000 believers joined their exclusive waitlist. So can their fintech company actually repair centuries of racist banking?
March 16, 2022 - Carry1st, an African mobile gaming publisher, has announced a $20 million Series A extension round led by respected Silicon Valley firm Andreessen Horowitz, its first into an African-headquartered company.
March 16, 2022 - For Max Farrell, the employee-employer relationship had been fundamentally flawed long before the “Great Resignation” made it a pressing topic for most companies.
December 27, 2021 - 2021 has been a year of breaking records for the Atlanta technology ecosystem. Georgia startups raised $3 billion in the first three quarters, smashing 2019’s previous record. More local venture capital firms are raising funds than ever before. Massive tech corporations have announced thousands of new jobs in the city.
November 15, 2021 - As regulatory scrutiny of banks’ lending practices intensifies, one startup is promoting artificial intelligence software aimed at helping banks remove biases built into their automated lending systems.
October 31, 2021 - Mattermost is eyeing a slice of Trello, Asana, and Notion’s pie as the open source “Slack alternative” officially rolls out a new unified platform with integrated project and workflow management tools aimed at the software development fraternity.
August 31, 2021 - Just five months after raising a $100 million Series A, TaxBit announced today it has raised $130 million in a Series B round of funding.
June 30, 2021 - SmartAsset, a marketplace that connects consumers to financial advisors, announced today that it has raised $110 million in a Series D round of funding.
April 30, 2021 - Welcome Tech, which has built a digital platform aimed at immigrants and their families, has raised $35 million in a Series B funding round co-led by TTV Capital, Owl Ventures and SoftBank Group Corp.’s SB