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What if brands could ensure a new product launch was going to be a hit even before it got on shelves? Today, brands can try to leverage seemingly endless amounts of consumer data to pinpoint what might perform well next. But Atlanta native Drew Williams saw a major flaw in
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The Southeast is home to a new venture studio. The Innovation Studio launched this week in Nashville, Tennessee with a very specific mission in mind: Make Music City a capital for “Industrial AI” innovation. Founder and CEO Brian Moyer told Hypepotamus that the team behind the studio is in the
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A fintech startup spun out of another startup in Wilmington, North Carolina has landed its own $3 million in venture capital funding. APPROVE, an internal lending network for the equipment rentals, launched when KWIPPED founder Robert Preville and his team started looking for solutions for lending options for customers already
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The story behind the startup WellStory is personal for founder Barrett Merrill. Like an estimated 40 million Americans, Merrill started exploring therapy in 2019. While he said the process was “incredibly impactful” for him, something big was getting in the way: Seemingly endless paperwork. “Something that I felt was challenging
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Last summer when we first met Zinnia, one of the latest startups coming out of Atlanta Ventures Studio, founder Lauren Marturano told us about her vision for what team building and offsite experiences should look like in our post-pandemic world. But like many startups, the venture has grown and evolved
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It seems like a match made in FinTech heaven. Yesterday, the payment data startup RIBBIT AI announced it has acquired ValidiFI, a Florida-based fraud, compliance, and risk mitigation startup in the financial services space. “RIBBIT’s primary customers are lenders and banks looking for increased payment data and visibility so
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Allison, a low-code visual API startup connecting community banks and FinTechs, is moving to Birmingham, Alabama following an investment from the Alabama Futures Fund (AFF). The move, announced this week, is strategic for the banking-as-a-service startup. Brian Alvarez-Bailey, Allison’s CEO, started the company while living in Tampa. After receiving
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Have a startup in mind but not sure if you have all the skills to bring that idea to life? It takes a lot more than vision to get a startup off the ground. Founding teams need to have technical skills, marketing chops, know how to hire, and be ready
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Like many young homeowners, Tina Tang and Anthony Alers were on a budget when it came time for home renovations. So DIY projects – like building built-in shelves, revamping light fixtures, and upcycling second-hand furniture – seemed like the right move. But even though TikTok, Instagram, Pinterest, and HGTV programs can make
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The OG of the music streaming world is moving to Nashville. Napster, the twenty-four-year-old online music service, announced today it is moving its corporate headquarters to Nashville from the West Coast. This makes it the first global media company to set up shop in ‘Music City.’ Jon Vlassopulos, a Nashville
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There’s a caregiving crisis in the US that is hard to ignore. The population is aging quickly, and despite the fact that the at-home care industry’s market size is close to $130 billion, it is simply impossible to find enough qualified caregivers across the country. In fact, the
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David Reeser moved to Wilmington, North Carolina, a beach town that he describes as “paradise,” in 2016 with his family. But a report came out around that time suggesting it was far from paradise for many of Reeser’s neighbors. Upwards of 11.6% of Wilmington residents were abusing opioids,