Venture Atlanta, the South’s premier technology innovation and investor conference, announced the 50 companies selected to present and showcase their wares at its 10th annual event to be held October 11-12 at the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta. Through the years, Venture Atlanta has earned a reputation for consistently identifying tomorrow’s cutting-edge technologies while helping to launch over 380 companies and secure over $2 billion in funding. This year’s event, expected to bring close to 150 funds from across the country and a sold out crowd of over 900, will also feature Mark Cuban and Ernie Garcia, the CEO of Carvana, as keynote speakers and will include the strongest and largest roster yet of early and venture-stage companies—showcasing the depth, breadth and opportunity within the region’s technology community.

“After a record number of entries this year, including companies from all over our region as well as from Washington, D.C., Florida and Virginia, we could not be more pleased with this new crop of promising technology companies,” said Christopher Maxwell, partner at Morris, Manning & Martin, a 10-year event sponsor. Maxwell is also the Venture Atlanta 2017 company selection chair. “We’re eager to work with these companies to connect them with the capital, people and resources they need to accelerate their innovation and growth.”
 
Since its inception, Venture Atlanta has served as a launch pad for many of today’s successful technology companies, including Acculynk (acquired by First Data), ClearLeap (acquired by IBM), CloudSherpas (acquired by Accenture), Joulex (acquired by Cisco), Kabbage, Razor Insights (acquired by Athena Health), Roadie, Rubicon, SalesLoft and Silverpop (acquired by IBM).

The following 35 companies have been chosen to present onstage at Venture Atlanta 2017:

Aces Health

Brytecore

Deposco

EVŌ

Fattmerchant

FIXD

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Global Safety Management

GoProcure

Gozio Health

Illuma Care Connections

ImagineAir

Intradiem

Izenda

Lillii RNB

LiveSource

MacStadium

MMJ Labs Pain Relief

Orderly

Patientory

Predikto

Preparis

Raw Shorts

Saige

ScientiaMobile

Sideqik

Sudu Logistics

Surefire Local

ThingTech

Trust Stamp

UnBrokerage

VITAL4DATA

Vizzia Technologies

Volantio

Zenedge

Startup Showcase

In addition to companies presenting onstage, Venture Atlanta will also for the first time include a Startup Showcase featuring 16 companies that represent the most exciting emerging technologies in the Southeast. These innovators will be highlighted with special tables at the conference to provide sneak peeks into their plans and products. The companies include:

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Better Walk (BW Health)

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Carbice Corporation

CloudFish

DecisionIQ

Gauge Insights

Grubbly Farms

LaaSer Critical Communications

MoQuality

OBMedical Company

Safely

SingleOps

Stackfolio

StaffWRX

Zywie

“We’re thrilled to be the inaugural sponsor of the Venture Atlanta Startup Showcase designed to help the Southeast’s thriving technology ecosystem embrace and share big ideas for the next decade,” said Jason Ferguson, district manager of Insperity. “We’ve carefully chosen 16 exciting companies to watch, and Venture Atlanta provides the perfect gathering for them to network and build connections that will be invaluable to fueling their future growth.”