Atlanta-based retail technology provider Aptos has acquired Icelandic software firm LS Retail for an undisclosed sum. LS Retail develops software for retail, hospitality, food service and other sectors, offering inventory planning, point of sale and enterprise resource planning in on solution. Based in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik, the company’s software is installed through channel partners […]
With $100M Raise, Atlanta’s Newest Unicorn Eyes International Expansion
SalesLoft may be born and bred in Atlanta, but the nine-year-old sales engagement software provider that just became the city’s newest unicorn is looking beyond U.S. borders to bolster its already impressive growth. SalesLoft announced Thursday it had raised a $100 million Series E round led by Owl Rock Capital, bringing its total private funding […]
Books 2020: Using Innovation to Tap Post-Corona Opportunities
Book: Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity Author: Scott Galloway Review by: Albert M. Hodge, Jr., retired economic development professional and president of Hodge Consulting Services Even within his subtitle, serial entrepreneur and NYU Business School Professor Scott Galloway hints that he will identify winners and losers as the U.S. economy prepares for the post-pandemic era. […]
Merger Combines Atlanta Exporter With European Video Game Innovator
Atlanta-based KontrolFreek, a provider of gaming gear available in 9,000 stores across 40 countries, has been acquired by a Danish innovator that helped usher in the age of e-sports. SteelSeries, which emerged in Copenhagen in 2001, makes mice, keyboards, headsets and other peripherals, including controllers. For nearly 20 years its products have been used […]
Northern Irish Tech Firm to Employ 137 at Buckhead Office
A software and digital technology from the United Kingdom is to invest $1.2 million at a new Fulton County office employing 137 people. Based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Kainos builds customized digital services for public, corporate and health care clients, with a particular focus on enterprise resource planning systems. The office will be located at […]
Ireland-based Sysnet Grows Via Atlanta Acquisition
Sysnet Global Solutions, an Ireland-based managed services provider helping fintech clients outsource and ensure cybersecurity compliance, is expanding its reach throughout the U.S. with an Atlanta acquisition. The Dublin-based company made a splash in Atlanta in 2017 when it committed to hiring 500 people at a new headquarters and services center in Brookhaven. Now, the […]
French Unicorn Mirakl’s Recipe for Transatlantic Startup Success
Leave it to a French company to use a culinary allegory to offer a business lesson. Perhaps playing to the perceived stereotypes harbored by his audience, Mirakl co-founder and U.S. CEO Adrien Nussenbaum shared his recipe for transatlantic startup success during the 11th annual France-Atlanta series held virtually this year by the Consulate General of […]
Atlanta Could Soon Be Dubbed a ‘French Tech’ Hub
Love French wine, French food, French luxury brands and French…technology? Francophiles who wish to help Atlanta win official designation as a French tech hub are invited to participate in efforts to create an organized community of French entrepreneurs and startups here. A group of Francophile entrepreneurs, with the help of the Consulate General of France […]
Atlanta Nano-Material Startup Carbice Raises $15M to Transform Global Electronics Manufacturing
Atlanta nano-material startup Carbice Corp. has raised $15 million to continue an expansion into markets and industries that got a boost by a trip to France in 2018. Spun off from research by the founders conducted at Georgia Tech and beyond, Carbice makes a black tape composed of recycled aluminum and arrayed carbon nanotubes that […]
Atlanta’s Hermeus Developing Hypersonic Jet to Speed Up the Global Economy
Atlanta aerospace startup Hermeus has raised a $16 million Series A funding round to help develop the world’s first commercial hypersonic jet, a bid to fundamentally change the speed at which the global economy moves. Hermeus’s jets would travel at a top speed of Mach 5 — five times the speed of sound, or about […]
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