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Talks started back in January of this year to find a suitable buyer for Atlanta-based Backspace, a community-building and monetization platform for digital creators. Over the last two years the young startup had gained significant traction through ProductHunt, a popular online community platform for early-stage ideas, and proved some big
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You rate your Uber driver. You scour Yelp for hair stylists. You carefully read about a new doctor online before making an appointment. So why isn’t there a place to read about a financial advisor you're looking to hire? Trust in financial advisors is incredibly low, something
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Even before Michael Davis officially joining the team at Homegrown, the early-stage startup was keeping him up at night. “You know when it’s three in the morning and you can't stop thinking about an idea? And then you wake up at six a.m. and you are
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Long before walking across the Georgia Tech graduation stage this spring, the team behind Tabnam had job offers from some of the most high-profile global tech companies. That is a dream situation for most computer science students…but Daksh Gupta and Soohoon Choi had a different vision for how they
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Cox Enterprises is no stranger to the Atlanta startup scene. The broadband, automotive services, and media giant powers two of Atlanta’s Techstars programs, is a corporate sponsor of Engage, was part of launching Endeavor Atlanta, put $150 million into the fast-growing cleantech startup Nexus Circular earlier this year, and
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Atlanta-based startup Danti is coming out of stealth mode with a plan to transform how we search images across the globe. Using public records, social media, and a wide range of drone and satellite imagery sources, Danti looks to be a “search engine for Earth data.” While that type of
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2ULaundry, a venture-backed Charlotte-based startup innovating the laundry and dry cleaning service experience, announced today it has made its first acquisition. The startup acquired The Folde, a Texas-based competitor in the laundry space. 2ULaundry’s co-founder and President Alex Smereczniak told Hypepotamus that the 2ULaundry has been close to the
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The “request a demo” button is out and instant conversations are in, says the team behind Atlanta-based Callbird. The SaaS startup, which officially launched last week, is a live video platform that helps sales teams bridge the “enormous gap between website visitors and real conversations with prospects,” says co-founder Brad
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150. That’s how many new features Mailchimp users have at their fingertips in order to build and analyze marketing campaigns. The new and updated features are designed to keep up with the day-to-day needs of busy marketers, says Mailchimp’s Sr. Director of Product Development Jenny Gibson. Mailchimp users
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Date nights. Weddings. Proms. An anniversary dinner. Or “just because” you want to take a Rolls-Royce out for a spin. If you’re looking to ride in style around Charlotte, founder Andre Powell Jr. is building something for you. His startup, Goldsainte, is a luxury ride share company that allows
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Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war. That was the one-sentence statement – signed by startup leaders and CEOs and even presidents around the globe – issued last month by The Centre for AI Safety. And that
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More robots will soon be built in the Metro Atlanta area. ABB, a European multinational corporation focused on electrification and automation, is putting down roots in Alpharetta with a newly opened Packaging and Logistics facility in the tech hub just north of Atlanta. ABB Robotics builds a full suite of