Lance Weatherby

Launched in 2008, Half Off Depot is the leading southeast online deal company offering savvy consumers the broadest range of local deals on the Internet. The company differentiate themselves from daily deal sites with its online store that features a wide array of local products, services and experiences as well as national deals. Half Off Depot strives to be a valuable online marketing partner to its merchants. They partner with new and established local merchants in Atlanta, Charlotte, Knoxville, Nashville, Orlando, Tampa and Jacksonville to attract and retain new customers. It integrates both merchants and their deals into social media promotions, using Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and other emerging platforms to expand the reach of their deals. Half Off Depot is committed to helping merchants set and meet goals that suit the needs of their unique business. Half Off Depot helps merchants decide how many vouchers they are comfortable selling, allowing them to predict and prepare for the influx in new customers that each new offer brings. Half Off Depot also guarantee timely payment, through upfront payments for qualified merchants or at an industry-leading pace of twice a month for new customers.

Skribit, Inc. provides bloggers with the ability to receive real-time, user-generated suggestions directly from their readers via an easy-to-install blog application. The company was founded in November 2007 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

EarthLink LLC provides Internet services. It empowers customers with managed information technology services including cloud computing, data centers, virtualization, security, applications and support services, in addition to nationwide data and voice IP services. The company was founded by Sky D. Dayton in February 2000 and is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

CipherTrust, Inc. provides security software services. The company develops security software to stop inbound messaging threats such as spam, viruses, intrusions, phishing as well as protect against outbound policy and compliance violations. The company was founded in 2000 by Jay Chaudhry and is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA.

Advanced Technology Development Center is a Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of State of Georgia founded in 1980. Advanced Technology Development Center is headquartered in Atlanta.