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For Roy Scott, founding Healthy Hip Hop was an opportunity to blend his love of music with the entrepreneurial mindset he picked up while learning to sell his CDs. “I came up in the hip hop generation,” Scott told Hypepotamus. “I was really influenced by the culture, but I didn’
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James Oliver, Jr., veteran entrepreneur and founder of WeMontage, knows a thing or two about balancing parenting and work. His twins were born prematurely just as he was starting an accelerator program in Wisconsin for one of his latest startups. Oliver, a Morehouse grad, was immediately thrust into the realities
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Lauren Longo knows, like every parent, that there is no 'easy button' for childcare. But her Atlanta-based startup Talli is looking to create a console that just might come close. Longo started her career in management and UX consulting. The road to building Talli after she found out
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We’re ending the week with a quick round up on all the funding, acquisitions, and other startup news from across the Southeast you need to know. Know of a headline we missed? Let us know! Funding News * Get ready to place your to-go order at your favorite local spot.
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Connecting with and attracting customers online is key for restauranteurs trying to navigate coronavirus-related shutdowns and guidelines. Popmenu, an Atlanta-based digital marketing and ordering SaaS platform, is helping restaurants revamp their online presence in a big way to ensure orders keep coming through during these uncertain times for the industry.
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It's another exciting week for both the SaaS and sustainability communities in Atlanta. Cove.tool, an Atlanta-based B2B automated platform that make building construction more energy efficient, has closed $5.7 million Series A investment round, according to a press release on their website. The round was led
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It has been quite the year for PPRO, the fintech company with roots in London and Atlanta. Even though international trade and travel look drastically different in 2020, PPRO is helping ecommerce merchants around the globe connect with customers, regardless of their payment method. While it is common in the
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Atlanta-based Polygon.io, which uses real-time APIs to connect users with brings data on stocks, crypto, and other important financial markets, has announced it closed a $6 million Series A round led by e.ventures. Green Visor Capital, an existing investor in Polygon.io, also participated in the round. Hypepotamus
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While Software-as-a-Service is one of the largest industries across the Southeast, companies like Cloverly are looking to bring a different definition of SaaS to consumers and businesses alike. Cloverly’s “Sustainability-as-a-Service” platform and suite of tools are designed to help companies and retailers of all sizes take tangible steps towards
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Lots of companies have embraced flexible summer Fridays recently, giving employees the opportunity to ideate or work on unique projects. For a group of Atlanta-based Mailchimp engineers, the last few Fridays have been used to build a platform that goes far beyond Mailchimp's email and marketing capabilities. In
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Most people don’t throw a party and walk out with a minimum viable product for a new startup. But that’s exactly what Kimberly Jolasun did at her own baby shower. Villie is working to create a ‘virtual village’ with a suite of fun online games to mark pregnancy
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In case you needed another reason to be bullish on the Southeast tech startup scene, BIP Capital released its 2020 State of Startups in the Southeast Report this week. It shows that, even with coronavirus-related slowdowns, the region is attracting investment dollars and startups are growing across diverse industries. Since