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GoFan, the Alpharetta-based ticketing company making it easier for people to get tickets to their local high school game, has named B.J. Pilling as its new CEO. Pilling has been with GoFan for five years, most recently leading their sales and marketing efforts as the company’s vice president
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Curiosity Lab is celebrating its one-year anniversary on the roads of Peachtree Corners. Located 20 miles north of downtown Atlanta, Curiosity Lab at Peachtree Corners allows corporate companies and startups alike to test, demo, and ultimately deploy autonomous vehicles and other technologies driving the next generation of smart cities. The
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Most companies spent the better part of early spring scrambling to get their meetings and events up on a virtual platform to comply with social distancing guidelines. But for the Eventeny team, adding digital events was something already in the works when in-person events shut down. “The virtual event build
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We've reached the final stretch of 2020. Even with the political and economic uncertainty swirling around Q4 of 2020, VC firms across the Southeast are deploying capital and looking to strategically grow their portfolios. Hypepotamus had a chance to catch up with David Jones of Bull City Venture
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Six months after concert venues around the country shut down due to COVID, music lovers are still turning to Zoom and YouTube live streams to connect with their favorite artists. Now, an Atlanta-based 3D animation studio is livening up 2020 concerts with their new app designed to bring artists into
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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 North Carolina: JupiterOne JupiterOne, out of Morrisville, North Carolina, raised $19
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The Atlanta-based startup gradschoolmatch.com announced this week they have reached a definitive agreement to be acquired by ETS, the New Jersey-based testing service behind the GRE and TOEFL exams. In a Q&A with Hypepotamus in 2016, founder and Emory University professor T.J. Murphy, Ph.D, said
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Amazon and Atlanta-based Sharecare are teaming up to talk about your most pressing health issues. Sharecare announced today that the company would integrate their library of over 80,000 healthcare-related questions with the Amazon Alexa ecosystem, making it possible for users to ask common medical questions from home. For Sharecare’
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For those struggling with addiction, finding structure and routine are key steps on the road to sobriety. But often, necessary recovery programs are too expensive or out of reach for those seeking help. Fortunately, two engineering students are blending their technology background with leading mental health practices to bring structure
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While this fall is shaping up to be another Zoom-filled, socially distanced season across the Southeast, many startups are using this time to hone their ideas and get their product pitches ready for upcoming competitions and conferences. Here are a few of the programs that you should know about as
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Create-X, Georgia Tech’s entrepreneurship program, is celebrating its second successful exit for a student-run company. This time, a Create-X company is taking to the sky to make lifesaving medical evacuations safer. Anti-Rotational Technologies (ART) developed Stabilizing Aerial Loads Utility System (SALUS), whose anti-rotational stretcher stabilizes the spin of someone
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While various software companies like Zoom and Slack have made it possible for many to work from home, technology has done little to ease the pain points associated with actually buying a piece of real estate to call home. But Orchard, the tech company bringing the listing, buying, loan, and