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Physical security is getting an AI upgrade, thanks to Birmingham, Alabama-based Analytical AI. The startup, founded in 2019, looks to secure airports and checkpoints. The team has captured the attention of the United States’ Customs and Border Protection and has been scaling through seed funding and startup-focused grants. As the
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Veterans of Live Oak Bank, one of the top SBA lenders in the US, have joined the Wilmington, North Carolina fintech startup world to help small businesses get more access to financing options. Lumos was co-founded in 2021 by Youri Nelson, Brett Caines, and Stephen Hayes, who worked as Live
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Before even starting college, Joseph Metzler Concepcion had a business idea and knew he wanted to be an entrepreneur. He’d spent his middle and high school years tinkering with different electrical projects, putting together everything from racing drones to electric bikes. But he kept running into a big problem:
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Lindsay deOliveira's entrepreneurial journey started with a drawing she did in Microsoft Paint. An optician by training, deOliveira was at home with her newborn daughter in 2021 and 2022 when she experienced something that most new parents will understand: It was next to impossible to find a pacifier
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Techstars Atlanta Powered By Cox Enterprises didn’t have to look too far from home to find the startups for its 2024 cohort. Over half of the startups selected come from either Atlanta or the great Southeast region. From AI-powered marketplaces to roommates matching apps, here are the startups just
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Morehouse College students might walk onto campus this coming fall and be greeted by an AI TA. Certain professors at the HBCU in Atlanta will be adopting a digitized, animated, AI-powered version of themselves that can answer class questions at any time. That can help professors clear up their schedules
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New York's early-stage, women-led VC firm HearstLab is coming to Atlanta this fall...and they want to hear pitches from local female founders. HearstLab has picked Atlanta for its next live pitch event location. Selected companies will pitch in front of a live audience and an expert panel
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Over half of the Americans are part of the hourly workforce. And yet the big job board players aren't designed with them — or their employers — in mind. Most job boards, like LinkedIn and Indeed, focus on salaried positions and aren't suitable for high turnover positions. That
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Question for startup founders out there: How many software subscriptions do you have for you and your team? Chances are your team spends the day bouncing between Slack, email, HubSpot, Notion, LinkedIn, a few different project management tools, and whatever platform holds your code. But as Metro Atlanta founders Kelly
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Glitzy new artificial intelligence startups are popping up everywhere, and they’ve taken a bulk of venture capital checks written over the last year and a half. But it’s not just early-stage startups that are building the latest AI products. Seasoned tech companies, especially those in the Southeast, may
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Rainforest is making a strong case that it is Atlanta’s fintech startup to watch. Since getting an infusion of seed capital last October, the team has grown its payment volume by 17x. It found a sweet spot serving mid-market customers, which other major players in the embedded payments world
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Startup founder Don Templeman wants to make polarization in journalism a thing of the past. That certainly seems like a lofty goal in 2024. Today, big media outlets and social media platforms build their audiences by reinforcing specific viewpoints. The reality is that the focus is on click rates and