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Tampa’s startup community was ready for something like Embarc Collective to come to town. The nonprofit tech and entrepreneurial hub, which got off the ground in 2019, didn’t even have to open the doors to its physical space in Downtown Tampa for there to be a swell of
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It was sheer frustration with the US health insurance world that turned Shielvonda Haith into an entrepreneur. She had a good job with benefits. Her insurance came from a major payor in the market. And even so, she had to pay $7,000 out of pocket in medical bills for
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Following the acquisition of their startup Offbeat Media Group in December, media entrepreneurs Shep Ogden and Bailey Grady are ready for their next business challenge. And previous investors, including Mark Cuban and Atlanta Ventures, are backing them once again. Ogden and Grady just launched Interlock Studios, a company that buys
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Tamara Lucas started My Panda because she knows everyone can use some help with their to-do list. The Atlanta-based personal assistant app found an eager customer base: Busy parents who wanted to enlist the help of assistants (known as Pandas) to keep up with the daily tasks like folding laundry,
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ChatGPT has been an important hiring tool recently for Jim Boyte, CEO of North Carolina-based Active Defender. Hiring a traditional headhunter was an expensive proposition for the early-stage startup. But Boyte knew at this stage, the team had to “hire people that are way smarter than us” in order to
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Just about every household appliance has gone through a smart home upgrade. From smart locks to plugs, IoT devices are adding security, convenience, and a new eco-friendly layer to our homes. But circuit breakers have yet to get really “smart.” A traditional breaker box is constantly pulling energy from the
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Brothers Mitch Seymour and Mark Seymour are on a mission to make websites safer…by helping companies understand the reputation of their users and track unwanted behaviors on their platforms. Right now, it is pretty easy for nefarious actors to get around blockers a website puts up. Or put another
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Atlanta-based Fulcrum Equity Partners set out to raise $300 to $350 million for its Fund V. But it turns out that a lot of new and returning investors wanted into the limited partner (LP) pool…and today Fulcrum announced it has closed the round at an impressive $372 million. Raising
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The fertility world is cold. Really, really, cold. Eggs, embryos, and sperm cells need to be stored in places that reach negative 320 degrees Fahrenheit. In order to maintain that temperature, fertility clinics store these samples in liquid nitrogen tanks. Will Baird worked with these tanks every day as the
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Chanda Bell and Christa Pitts are constantly thinking about Christmas. Sure, end-of-year sales are top of mind as two entrepreneurs in the consumer product space. But the holiday means even more for the twins and now co-CEOs…because it is literally their job to deliver Christmas magic to millions of
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From her home base in Tampa, Celeste Grupman is ready to change the way we learn the most in-demand skills. Grupman was recently named the CEO of Dataquest, an EdTech company providing project-based courses in AI and data science skills. She is stepping up after serving as the startup’s
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Up on the eighth floor of Midtown’s 999 Peachtree Building, overlooking the iconic Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, you’ll find what Charles Potts refers to as “the front door to community banks.” That ‘front door’ opens up to the new Center for Innovation for ICBA (the Independent Community