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Top Teambuilding Experiences in B’ham – Ideas for Encouraging Camaraderie Among Your Startup Team
On the heels of Mental Health Month, it’s important to recognize startups and the tireless work being done by team members to establish successful businesses. With this in mind, many startups are looking for teambuilding activities that will foster connection and camaraderie among employees. Engaging in these collaborative exercises outside of work helps team members…
By the Numbers: Birmingham is the Best Bet for your Tech Startup
See Why the Magic City is the Ideal Place for Your Startup While California used to be a startup’s dream, you no longer have to go to Silicon Valley to find the besttech business scene. Here in Birmingham, Alabama, tech companies are thriving, with support from cityleaders and business innovators dedicated to growing an ecosystem…
Birmingham Bound Welcomes Fetch Rewards to the Magic City
Birmingham Bound, founded to make Birmingham the place to grow and scale a tech company, today welcomed Fetch Rewards, America’s No. 1 rewards app, to the Birmingham tech community. The move by Fetch will bring approximately 200 jobs and more than $1 million in investment to create its new office and customer-support hub. A unicorn…
Birmingham Bound to Scale Up Birmingham’s Tech Industry
Birmingham Bound, founded to make Birmingham the place to grow and scale a tech company, today announced it plans to transition to a nonprofit with 501(c)(3) status. It will operate independently from Shipt, where it launched in 2018. Birmingham Bound established a board of directors that includes members of Birmingham’s tech, business, and civic community….
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New to Birmingham’s startup commmunity? Here’s five places to start
Are you new to Birmingham and want to get plugged into the startup & tech ecosystem? These events are a great way to get started!
Learning from Tech Communities Around Us
For the majority of this year, we have been hustling to get tech companies to Birmingham. In November, we were able to put our ear to the ground and listen to what the Birmingham tech ecosystem needs.
Business Woman’s Brilliant Business Idea for Birmingham
When you think technology hub you might not immediately think Birmingham, but we hope you will soon.
Opening LeaseQuery’s Birmingham Office
80 days. That’s all the time it took for LeaseQuery to open the doors of their new office in Birmingham, from the time they began looking for a second office location in July to the first class of Birmingham new hires.
Phoenix based software company, Integrate, comes to Birmingham
Integrate’s Chief Technology Officer, was impressed by our city’s power to help companies grow, commenting that “Birmingham has a very educated workforce that’s smart and has grit.”
THTW- Ep. 5: Britney Summerville and Birmingham Bound
In just over a year, Birmingham Bound has played a direct role in recruiting more than a dozen tech operations to Birmingham. Hear about their unprecedented success and how Britney and the Bham Bound team is leveraging the energetic startup community and corporate partners to attract high growth startups.
Birmingham Bound: How an Atlanta Company Landed in the Magic City
Atlanta firm LeaseQuery is one of the latest to join the Magic City.
Shipt’s new CEO on company’s plan for recruiting and Birmingham’s future
Shipt CEO Kelly Caruso sheds light on her first six months on the job, her vision for Birmingham and more.
Tech company to relocate from California to Birmingham – CEO is “blown away” by the city
Birmingham has become a bustling hub for tech companies and startups alike in recent years. This past April, the city was named as one of America’s new tech hot spots. In addition, Birmingham programs and funds like Innovation Depot’s Velocity Accelerator Program and the Alabama Futures Fund (AFF) are investing in startups left and right.
Birmingham Bound initiative hopes to bring more business to Alabama
A new initiative called Birmingham Bound is set to revamp and recruit companies of high-growth to produce a satellite office or second headquarters in the Magic City.
