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AutoTec and the Art of Letting Strangers Trade
A used car can arrive with a polished bonnet and a complicated past. AutoTec has built a business around the less glamorous questions: who may buy it, what happened to it, and whether the money will arrive.
The Advertising Agency Named Luckie Stopped Believing in Luck
For seventy-three years, a family name has carried an awkward promise. Luckie’s answer was to replace chance with data, then teach an old Southern agency to behave like a modern operating system for attention.
Joblogic wants to close the gap between job done and invoice paid
A repair can be finished long before the paperwork is. Joblogic has built a business around that delay, and more than £100 million in fresh backing is financing its next move.
Inspired Thinking Group Makes the Big Idea Work Overtime
The Birmingham marketing group has built a business around advertising’s endless variations. Its pitch to brands: keep the creative ambition, cut the repetitive work.
The Birmingham startup that made pharma pay for trust it never earned
Del Smith and Tiffany Whitlow built a 200,000-member community first and an AI second - and got seven of the ten biggest drug makers to buy the trust they earned.
The 119-Year-Old Insurer Built for the Next Life Moment
Protective Life spent more than a century insuring families. Its next act is broader: retirement income, dealer finance, employee leave and a pending move into specialty insurance - all powered by a quiet expertise in buying and administering promises that can last for decades.
Prepaid2Cash
Prepaid2Cash is a Birmingham, Alabama fintech that turns network-branded prepaid cards and store gift cards into spendable cash. Users scan a card in the mobile app or online and receive funds by direct deposit, instant debit transfer, PayPal, Venmo, or Bitcoin, often within minutes. Founded in 2016 by Peter Vogt and John Gushman, the company set out to unlock the billions of dollars that sit trapped on plastic every year because prepaid and gift cards can't be deposited into a bank account.