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Engage VC

https://www.engage.vc
Last activity: 10.07.2026
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Invests in categories: Artificial IntelligenceDataEnterpriseLearnManagementPlatformSecurityServiceSoftwareTechnology
Engage is a first-of-its-kind collaborative innovation and corporate venture platform comprised of 14 Fortune 500 corporations in the Southeast that have joined forces to support startups building the future of enterprise technology.
News
354
Portfolio
127
Persons
57
Mentions
22
Location: United States, Georgia, Atlanta
Employees: 11-50
Founded date: 2017
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A; Series B

Portfolio 127

DateNameWebsiteTotal RaisedLocation
05.05.2026BrandRank....brandrank.ai$1.2M-
05.05.2026GC AIgc.ai-United Sta...
05.05.2026Rheaplyrheaply.com$32.7MUnited Sta...
05.05.2026PAXAFEpaxafe.com$11.25MUnited Sta...
05.05.2026PayStandar...paystandards.com-United Sta...
05.05.2026Nativegonative.ai$3.5MUnited Sta...
28.04.2026Dantidanti.ai$7.75MUnited Sta...
28.04.2026CoreStorycorestory.ai$32MUnited Sta...
25.11.2025DG Matrixdgmatrix.com$80MUnited Sta...
25.11.2025ArborXRarborxr.com$12MUnited Sta...
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Persons 57

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News 354

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20.05.2026What Happens When Supply Chains Can Finally Think: Ilya Preston’s Journey to PAXAFEMany founders talk about “disrupting industries.” Ilya Preston talks about eliminating the invisible decisions that quietly cost companies billions. Before co-founding PAXAFE, Ilya spent years inside complex global supply chains, first at C...
19.05.2026Building What We Overlook: Garry Cooper’s Journey to RheaplyGarry Cooper has spent nearly a decade building Rheaply, but the company really started long before that in research labs and conversations about problems most people simply accepted as normal. Before becoming a founder, Garry was a neurosc...
18.05.2026The Future of Work Starts Here: Inside the Founding of PayStandardsMost startup stories are about timing. The story behind PayStandards is just as much about perspective. Todd Gershkowitz and Joe Davolio came to create the company from completely different stages of life and different careers. Todd spent m...
15.05.2026From Soccer to Startups: Frank Pica’s Journey to Native AIFor a long time, Frank Pica thought his life would be measured in seasons, games and goals scored. Soccer wasn’t just a hobby, it was the plan. He played at the collegiate level and planned to go pro, structuring nearly every decision aroun...
13.05.2026Where Academia Meets Entrepreneurship: Anand Kulkarni’s Path to CoreStoryAnand has never fit neatly into a single category. He’s spent his career moving between research labs and startup war rooms, publishing ideas one moment and building companies around them the next. Where most people see academia and entrepr...
08.05.2026The Trust Layer: Pete Blackshaw and the Future of BrandRankLong before AI started answering questions for consumers, Pete Blackshaw was thinking about what those answers should actually say. Pete’s journey to founding BrandRank didn’t emerge from a single insight. It’s the throughline of a career s...
30.04.2026Rewriting the Rules: Cecilia Ziniti and the Future of Legal WorkSome founders stumble upon their idea. Others spend years quietly building toward it. For Cecilia Ziniti, building GC AI was the natural convergence of everything she had seen, built, and believed in. Where It All Began Cecilia was raised w...
27.04.2026From Model Planes to Mission-Critical AI: Jesse Kallman’s Path to DantiFor Jesse Kallman, the path to building Danti didn’t start with a company idea. It started with curiosity. As a kid, he spent his time building model airplanes, flying RC planes, and experimenting with rockets, drawn to anything that moved ...
05.01.2026Welcome to Akshita Iyer, Engage’s new corporate insights lead.Please join us in welcoming Akshita Iyer to Tech Square Ventures, where she will lead two of our Engage corporate working groups: Supply Chain and AI (including data, analytics, and cybersecurity). Akshita brings a rare combination of scien...
21.11.2025Guarding the Gates: Belsasar’s Relentless Drive Behind CerbyBefore he ever wrote a line of code, Bel Lepe understood the meaning of work. As a first-generation Mexican American, he grew up watching his parents chase opportunity with extraordinary sacrifice. His father, Casimiro Lepe, came to the U.S...
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Mentions in press and media 22

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12.11.2025Georgia Tech Unveils Velocity Startups To Fast-Track Founders In Atlanta’s Tech SquareGeorgia Tech has announced the launch of Velocity Startups, a new early-stage accelerator designed to strengthen Atlanta’s growing innovation ecosystem and bridge the gap between research commercialization and scalable ventures. The program...
23.10.2025Bricklayer AI: $5 Million Seed Funding Raised For Improving Cybersecurity Operations With Agentic AIBricklayer AI, an agentic cybersecurity platform empowering Security Operations Centers (SOCs) with intelligent AI agents, announced the close of a $5 million Seed round led by Tech Square Ventures. The oversubscribed funding round also inc...
22.10.2025Bricklayer AI Raises $5M in Seed FundingBricklayer AI, an Arlington, Va.-based agentic cybersecurity platform empowering Security Operations Centers (SOCs) with AI agents, raised $5m in Seed funding. The round was led by Tech Square Ventures, with participation from returning inv...
22.10.2025Bricklayer AI Raises $5 Million Seed RoundBricklayer AI has raised $5 million in seed financing, according to a company statement. Bricklayer AI is an agentic cybersecurity platform that aims to enable teams of AI agents that work like security analysts, automating actions from ale...
03.10.2025AdPipe: $12 Million Secured For Scaling Authentic Video For Enterprise BrandsAdPipe, a rapidly growing AI-powered video platform, has announced the close of a $12 million Series A funding round aimed at helping enterprise brands scale authentic video content. The round was led by LGVP, with participation from notabl...
30.09.2025AdPipe Raises $12M Series A FundingAdPipe, an Atlanta, GA-based provider of an AI-powered video platform, raised $12M in Series A funding. The round was led by LGVP, with participation from Emery Wells (Founder of Frame.io), Atlanta Ventures, Tom Noonan, Engage VC, and other...
21.08.2025Instant Financial Named 2025 TAG Advance Award Winner for Innovation in FintechAward Recognizes Instant for Modernizing Pay and Expanding On-Demand Wage Access ATLANTA, Aug. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Instant Financial, the fintech company modernizing payments and earned wage access (EWA) for hourly workers and th...
31.08.2022After 7 months, what have Baltimore’s 2022 RealLIST Startups been up to?The scales have shifted and there’s more of 2022 behind us than in front. Looking back on how we thought the year would pan out, and how it’s actually going, reminds us to see where the dreams and the reality of the market intersected over ...
07.06.2022With Over $2.5BN In Capital - This VC Is Pushing The Future Of ClimateTechWhile many investors grapple with signs of a potential global bear market, one sector continues to attract waves of capital, talent, and attention: the decarbon economy. Energy Impact Partners (EIP) is helping set that pace. Having just clo...
02.06.2021Remote Visual Assistance Leader Earns $3M More In Growth Equity to Series A FundingMark B., Tech Times 02 June 2021, 09:06 am Help Lightning, a remote visual assistance software leader, has just secured an additional $3 million in growth equity from its Series A funding round - a show of trust and backing for remote visua...
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