Birmingham helped me build my company - Data

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This is the best place in the world to build new companies focused on bringing innovations into the energy industry.

I discovered this after I moved to Birmingham, a city I’d never visited before in a state I’d never visited before. Here is how.

In 2018, in Illinois, I founded HData, Inc.. Our goal is to automate regulatory work.

Co-founder Yuval Lubowich and I built a digital platform that helps energy companies automatically fill out reports to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and also uses information from those reports to benchmark across the industry.

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DailyPay Secures $300 Million Credit Facility From Barclays in a Landmark Deal for the On-Demand Pay Industry

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NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. —

DailyPay, a leading technology platform, today announced it has secured a $300 million revolving credit facility from Barclays. The revolving credit facility will provide DailyPay access to significant capital to service its ever-growing roster of partners, which includes America’s leading employers. 

“A fortress balance sheet is essential to be a leading company in on-demand pay,” said Jason Lee, CEO & Co-founder, DailyPay. “This credit facility will allow us to work with more of the largest employers in the country to offer on-demand pay to their employees.”

“This deal signals a first for our industry, and pioneers a new asset class,” said Ghani Iberraken, Vice President of Capital Markets, DailyPay. “We’re proud to strengthen our mission to create a financial system that works for everyone.”

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Boom! Studios Comic-Book Films ‘Irredeemable’ and ‘Incorruptible’ in the Works at Netflix

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BAFTA Film Award winner Jeymes Samuel is set to direct

A film adaptation of Boom! Studios graphic novel series “Irredeemable” and its spin-off “Incorruptible” are in the works at Netflix, according to an individual with knowledge of the project.

BAFTA Film Award winner Jeymes Samuel is set to direct and produce. Academy Award nominated Kemp Powers (“One Night in Miami,” “Soul,”) will write the script for the adaptation, which will have the protagonists from each series face off – one a villain on a quest to become a superhero, and the other a fallen hero turned villain.

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Syndio gains more big-name backers in Candace Parker, Spencer Rascoff

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Seattle-based pay equity software startup Syndio has gained a new set of high-profile investors.

The new investors, announced Monday, are contributing to Syndio's $50 million Series C round it raised in September; a Syndio spokesperson said the round always had a portion earmarked for a diverse set of angel investors. The new investors include WNBA star Candace Parker and Zillow co-founder Spencer Rascoff through his 75 and Sunny venture fund.

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