I’d like to tip my imaginary hat off to Jessica O. Matthews, the black female founder and CEO of renewable energy tech startup Uncharted Play. Her company just closed a $7 million Series A round led by the NIC Fund with participation from Kapor Capital,...
Apple’s new iOS 10 contains an overhaul for Apple Music, its $10-a-month subscription service. But Apple hadn’t said much about Apple Music until last night. Then it started a new marketing blitz, beginning with an ad it launched at the Emmys: First thought: Smart of Apple to...
A large waterfront parcel in Port Covington sold for $2 million in 2012 to an investor who declined to identify himself. Then a second large property sold nearby. Then a third. Each time, the investor's identity was hidden behind hard-to-trace limited liability companies. Speculation abounded. Who was...
Luma, an Atlanta-based company that makes a sleek router with a wide variety of bells and whistles, has added $7 million in funding to its coffers from Andreessen Horowitz and GV. The capital comes fast on the heels of a $12.5 million in Series A...
An Austin group focused on diversity in the technology industry is launching this month what it calls a “pre-accelerator.” DivInc, co-founded by former Dell Inc. executive Preston James, plans to operate a 12-week program for under-represented tech founders at the Galvanize Inc. co-working space downtown. The...
Blavity, the new media and lifestyle site for the young and black in America, takes on meaningful subjects like the Black Lives Matter movement, NFL player protests and discrimination from Airbnb. The site, which showcases BuzzFeed-like content such as “15 times athletes joined Colin Kaepernick’s national...