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Walker joined Edwards and Speight for this weeks’ chat about the PPP’s ongoing rollout and brought an unusual perspective to the discussion as he is the CEO of a business that just got a loan via First Planters as well as a board member at a different community bank and a Georgia State Senator.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

educated entrepreneurs met while working abroad at Renaissance Capital and Deutsche Bank. such as Zopa and Lending Club, they saw an opportunity in emerging markets that had been ignored by the big banks, such as Russia, Georgia and Kazakhstan. Observing the rise of disruptive companies in Europe and the U.S.,

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MAY 25, 2018

million round of funding led by Hyde Park Angels, Hyde Park Venture Partners, Ludlow Ventures, Sandalphon Capital and others. With the latest round, however, Provi seeks to continue to innovate its product offering and speed up its expansion into new markets. Provi recently announced a $3.5 The company previously raised $1.4

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JULY 24, 2018

Though most testing takes place in California, those operations also are conducted in Arizona, Texas, Georgia, Michigan and Washington State. The technology has undergone five billion hours of simulations, he said.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Select Investors: CAA Ventures, Greycroft Partners, GVR Fund, Samsung NEXT, Sony Innovation Fund. Select Investors: DN Capital, The Raine Group, 500 Startups. Select Investors: Accel Partners, Horizon Ventures, Lowercase Capital. Select Investors: Advancit Capital, Lowercase Capital. Dojo Madness. Mobalytics.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Through the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Texas, Tennessee and Washington are looking to standardize the ways firms across traditional financial services and FinTech upstarts apply for, and are granted, licenses. Can the states make licensing – of the money movement kind – any easier?

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JULY 13, 2017

Launching ‘Ask Peapod’ on Alexa was a natural innovation for Peapod as we continue to create real meal solutions that fit into normal at-home behaviors,” said de Merode. “We The eCommerce giant reportedly plans to invest $500 million in the food segment as it capitalizes on increasing Internet penetration in the country.

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MAY 24, 2016

Today, the Georgia-based company announced it has originated $2 billion in loans during the past five years. The credit line is dynamic; it automatically adjusts to furnish businesses with the right amount of capital they need to grow. The 75,000 small business customers on Kabbage’s platform hail from all 50 U.S.

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JULY 27, 2015

Once completed, the company will have a total capital of more than $585 million and a valuation of more than $875 million. The new capital will help Kabbage grow its staff (adding as many as 100 new workers) as well as “double” its office footprint. Kabbage was founded in 2009, and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 26, 2016

A year-over-year gain of 219% in new bookings growth is the highlight of a record fourth quarter from financial-supply-chain innovator, Taulia , which added 50,000 suppliers across 71 countries in Q4. Before working with SAP, Holzapfel did strategic marketing at The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta, Georgia. hospital networks.”

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APRIL 4, 2016

A new partnership between Santander UK and Atlanta, Georgia-based small business lender, Kabbage , brings same-day funding to SMEs in the U.K. Join us in sunny San Jose, California May 10 & 11 for feast of fintech innovation. Rob Frohwein is CEO. ——– FinovateSpring 2016 is just over a month away.

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JUNE 24, 2016

Last week , Walmart Pay rolled out in Alabama and Georgia. The venture capital backers are no doubt smiling. . Slam dunk sizzle. Is payment enabling those storefronts next? . Walmart Pay. It’s been a busy seven-day stretch for Walmart Pay. Yesterday’s “real” action resulted in a market cap of around $2 billion.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2019

He will also oversee policy, budget and investor relations while continuing to advance innovative solutions for instant identity verification. million to date, with early investors Blumberg Capital, BDC Capital and American Express. In July, the company expanded operations to include Bahrain, Iceland, Qatar and Georgia.

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MARCH 10, 2017

Athens, Greece’s capital, has a population of just over 665,000. Its capital city of Athens is helping out Greece in particular with its various technology endeavors. Four Athens is working with Georgia-based Advanced Technology Development Center that’s helping entrepreneurs with their startup ideas.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Auto-financing is ripe for innovation. 10:50 am Moonraft Innovation Labs – [link] – @moonraft. Our platform is open source, which makes it more reliable, innovative and secure. Based in Porto, Portuga they provide “Omnichannel Innovation” Truly integrated Omni channel middleware platform. “We

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JULY 19, 2017

Corporate innovation is critical for established companies looking to stay relevant in the face of disruption from up-and-coming startups. With industries being unbundled left and right ( supermarkets , banking , cars — just to name a few) more companies are opening up in-house innovation labs every day. Innovation Lab Name: HP Labs.

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APRIL 7, 2017

In a presentation titled “Sailing the Cyber Sea” at Innovation Project 2017, retired Admiral Jim Stavridis, the former supreme allied commander of NATO, stated that “we are [at] sea … but let’s drill down a little bit and point out the magnitude that is just increasing almost exponentially in terms of the surface of risk.”.

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JULY 17, 2018

Market share is simply shifting away from big chains that haven’t successfully innovated, flowing instead to new models for creating and selling food to customers. The kombucha taproom: Cultured South (Georgia). Melanie Wade opened Georgia’s first kombucha taproom, Cultured South, in May 2018.

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AUGUST 31, 2018

The easiest possible summary is that in a post-apocalyptic future, the United States has become the Kingdom of Panem, which consists of a rich, technologically vibrant capital city ringed by 12 impoverished agrarian or industrial districts that are exploited for their resources by wealthy residents of the capitol. Secret Weapon.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

With AI biotech startups emerging, traditional pharma companies are looking to AI SaaS startups for innovative solutions. With $72M in funding and investors like Sequoia Capital China, Infervision is the most well-funded Chinese startup focused exclusively on AI solutions for the healthcare industry. Big pharma’s AI re-branding.

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JULY 22, 2019

They grilled execs from Google, Amazon and Facebook over claims of their size and power, which is said to be driving smaller companies out of business, reducing opportunities for new innovators to emerge and tilting the competitive playing field too far in their direction. That’s what teenagers did 34 years ago for fun.

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

A host of startups have emerged to capitalize on this trend. For three of the tools we looked at — Mint, Level Money, and Check — we studied how their product evolved all the way up to their acquisition (by Intuit, Capital One, and Intuit, respectively). In aggregate, they command $1.3 trillion in annual spending.

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APRIL 3, 2018

Tianyuan’s factory will use machine vision-based sewing robots developed by Georgia-based startup SoftWear Automation to manufacture apparel for Adidas. “We Adidas, which unveiled its ambitious robot-run factory called Speedfactory in Germany in 2015, is planning another fully operational Speedfactory in Georgia soon.

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JUNE 7, 2018

Psychographic marketing, which plays on subconscious personality characteristics, is perfectly suited to help advertisers capitalize on impulsive decision-making. In one example, the company aims to analyze two fast food restaurants representative of “two Americas”: New York City-born Shake Shack and Georgia-born Chick-Fil-A.

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