5 Startups You Should Know in Atlanta
Startups are changing our lives and the world every day, and while areas like the Silicon Valley and Silicon Prairie are frequently named for their contributions to the startup world, these exciting changes are coming from cities across the United States.
If you are looking to pursue an MBA down south, it’s worth knowing about some of the top startup companies in great cities like Atlanta. Here, CEOs of top companies throughout the city have pledged their support to the growth and success of a thriving startup community.
Here are just a few of the top startups in Atlanta right now.
Salesfusion is an email and marketing automation platform that assists website creators in attracting visitors, creating marketing campaigns, scoring leads and analyzing web data—along with several other services.
Launched in 2015, SalesFusion has more than 400 customers and is backed by five leading venture capital firms. The company has also already received recognition for its fully integrated digital marketing platform, earning a place in Gartner’s coveted CRM Lead Management Quadrant.
Founded in 2014, Terminus is already considered one of the top providers of account-based marketing (ABM) tools. In December 2015, the company reached $1 million in annual recurring revenue.
Terminus offers ABM technologies ranging from identifying profitable micro-segments within a market to predictive analytics. The platform also allows companies to tailor their advertising messages across multiple digital channels.
Founded in 2011, TripLingo helps travelers stay safe and savvy during international trips. The TripLingo app offers tools such as local emergency information, an interactive phrasebook, a currency converter and a built-in WiFi dialer, which will allow travelers to make free international calls when connected to WiFi.
From its start with just five languages, TripLingo added more than a dozen new languages during the early years of the company, earning the app accolades, such as the “Business Travel Innovation of the Year” award from the Global Business Travel Association.
The outgrowth of frustration with the lack of coding projects for underrepresented perspectives in technology, Nuracode is a coding collective of African-American developers with a mission of designing tech products for a minority audience.
Created by Iziah Reid and Jovonni Pharr, Nuracode has already put out such exciting new apps as SayRoom—for deciphering the hidden emotions in voice messages—and Wavy—for delivering mixtapes of one’s favorite hip-hop artists to their phone.
Founded in 2011, Tunefruit aims to help musicians sell and license their music to new markets. The website allows corporate and individual clients to search for and connect with artists whose work they may then license for media such as Web promotions and corporate ads.
Since its inception, Tunefruit has helped major companies like Home Depot, Mars and Filippo to connect with artists for their media needs.
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Alanna Shaffer
Staff Writer, covering MetroMBA's news beat for Atlanta, Houston, and Dallas.
