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Snot might not seem like a topic most technologists are looking to tackle. But Dr. Steven Goudy, a pediatric otolaryngologist (that’s an ear, nose, throat doctor) at Emory University, knew the existing contraptions on the market were simply inadequate. Goudy saw an opportunity to address “silent suffering” — particularly with
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Atlanta-based Sharecare announced plans to acquire doc.ai, a Palo Alto startup working to personalize healthcare through its AI and machine learning capabilities. The acquisition will also further expand Sharecare’s footprint in Silicon Valley, a company spokesperson told Hypepotamus. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Doc.
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The future of brick and mortar was uncertain even before the pandemic. But that uncertainty hasn’t hit one important sector: laundromats. They were deemed an essential service during the pandemic, and demographic shifts have only increased their numbers across the country. The team behind Charlotte’s 2ULaundry recognized that
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From its headquarters in Georgia Tech’s Technology Square, Verusen’s team is on a mission to improve materials management across supply chains. Verusen’s platform organizes data from disparate inventory systems and helps users predict upcoming inventory needs, two important solutions as companies work to digitize supply chain management.
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Lavender started as an AI-driven browser extension to help people write better emails. But after meeting with a key group of their early users, co-founders Will Allred and Will Ballance told Hypepotamus they realized their platform could change the entire workflow for sales teams. “Now, it’s about writing better
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Even before employees flocked to productivity tools to streamline remote work, Atlanta-based Calendly wanted to streamline the arduous process of scheduling a meeting. But it’s no surprise that the scheduling software doubled its subscription revenue in 2020. The company, founded in 2013 by Tope Awotona, helped propel Atlanta’s
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Pivoting the inaugural Founders Academy to a virtual setting didn’t deter Jewel Burks Solomon and the Google for Startups team. Over the course of eight months — in the middle of the pandemic — the Academy worked with over 40 Georgia-based founders to help them get an idea off the ground
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Atlanta has been at the epicenter of the civil and human rights movement for decades. That made it the perfect place to launch Cox Enterprises Social Impact Accelerator, powered by Techstars. Led by Barry Givens, the program just announced its 2nd cohort. The ten selected startups come from across the
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Techstars Atlanta is celebrating another successful acquisition. CommissionTrac, a cloud-based revenue management platform that streamlines back office admin work for commercial real estate agents, has been acquired by Yardi Systems. Based in Santa Barbara, California, Yardi provides end-to-end property and investment management software to those in the commercial real estate
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Where there's a challenge, you’ll find an entrepreneur nearby building or coding a solution. As the nation works to distribute COVID-19 vaccines, one Atlanta-based entrepreneur has launched the Georgia Vax App, a text notification platform to streamline vaccine appointment information from various county Boards of Health. The
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Startup founders and corporate leaders alike must master the art of the pivot in order to get new products on shelves. But such a pivot can mean costly market and product research studies. Father-and-son team Dillon Hall and Tim Hall experienced this problem first hand, so they built a predictive
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It all started with a (friendly) debate over onions. Manav Thaker and Sajal Rohatgi, both Atlanta transplants, connected through the city’s business ecosystem. What started as a conversation over the best type of onions (Thaker is team yellow and Rohatgi is team red, for the record), developed into a