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Spot2Nite Turned One Family’s Camping Headache Into the Booking Rails for 69 Million Travelers
The New Orleans startup began with an RV, an empty itinerary and too many phone calls. Its bigger idea was not another camping directory, but a live inventory network that other travel brands could plug into.
Resilia
Resilia is a New Orleans-based B2B SaaS company that helps nonprofits build organizational capacity and helps funders - foundations, corporations, governments and banks - go beyond the grant with coaching, technical assistance, and impact intelligence. Founded by serial entrepreneur Sevetri Wilson (who first built the nonprofit-formation tool ExemptMeNow), the two-sided platform pairs on-demand courses, templates and fundraising tools for grassroots organizations with dashboards that let grantmakers track and scale impact across their portfolios. Resilia raised a $35M Series B in 2022 - the largest venture round ever for a solo Black-female-founded tech company.
Waldo
Waldo is an agentic brand intelligence platform that compresses the multi-week grind of brand research, competitive analysis, and strategy into minutes. Founded by Justin Wohlstadter, it pairs proprietary data integrations - social platforms, ad libraries, syndicated research - with 50+ structured workflows built for strategists. Agencies and brands give it a brand, a category, and an audience, and AI agents return recurring intelligence briefs on trends, ads, audience conversations, and competitor moves. Backed by a $10M Series A led by Footwork, Waldo already counts agencies like Havas, IPG, and Omnicom and brands like Conair and Kettle & Fire among its users.