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Maija Ehlinger

Atlanta, GA

Born and raised in Southern California, Maija has been in Atlanta since 2010. She is a graduate of Emory University and the Columbia Journalism School's Lede Program for data journalism.

Bootstrapped Darling Text Request Gets Acquired, Prepares For Further Growth In Chattanooga

Bootstrapped Darling Text Request Gets Acquired, Prepares For Further Growth In Chattanooga

Text Request, a Chattanooga-based business texting platform, has bootstrapped its way to a successful exit. After ten years of building up its business, the Tennessee startup has been acquired by U.K-based global messaging solutions leader Commify. This is Commify’s 18th acquisition since 2013 and its second in 2024.

Get To Know The CEO of Georgia-based Camping Tools

Get To Know The CEO of Georgia-based Camping Tools

Robert McMillan had been sitting on the domain camping.tools for years. Around 2015 .tools became publicly available and McMillan, an IT consultant, entrepreneur, and Georgia resident, bought the camping one without much thought about what it might be used for. After decades building his consulting career and several businesses,

Trade Mission At Venture Atlanta Highlights Opportunities Between Atlanta & UK's Tech Ecosystems

Trade Mission At Venture Atlanta Highlights Opportunities Between Atlanta & UK's Tech Ecosystems

A global Robotics company headquartered in Newcastle Upon Tyne. A hardware manufacturing shop out of Liverpool. A software startup based in Manchester. That might not sound like the traditional list of startups you’d meet while attending Atlanta’s largest venture capital conference. But last week those companies, and other

Atlanta Entrepreneur Faiz Imran is looking to build a new brand that sticks with you

Faiz Imran has built media startups and community social platforms, reaching four successful exits in less than eight years. Now after his most recent exit with the founder wellness platform startup called Peerbase, he’s ready to take on the wellness space…one patch at a time. Imran just launched

Armed with $21.5 million Series B, AI startup Document Crunch is ready to grow workforce in ATL

Armed with $21.5 million Series B, AI startup Document Crunch is ready to grow workforce in ATL

Investors have taken note of Document Crunch, the Atlanta-based AI platform focused on contract review for the construction industry. The team, led by co-founder and CEO Josh Levy, just announced a $21.5 million Series B funding round. That news comes the day after Levy’s pitch helped Document Crunch

Enterprise Companies Need Help With Their Security Data...So They Are Turning To Atlanta-based Query

Enterprise Companies Need Help With Their Security Data...So They Are Turning To Atlanta-based Query

Enterprises have a data problem. In the simplest terms, they have an ever-growing amount of it in a seemingly ever-growing number of places. That is particularly true when it comes to a company's important security data. That is something that Atlanta-based entrepreneur Matt Eberhart saw first hand throughout

Following acquisition, This Tampa Founder Is Ready to Help Restaurants Combat Rising Food Costs With New Startup

Following acquisition, This Tampa Founder Is Ready to Help Restaurants Combat Rising Food Costs With New Startup

Building any type of business is hard. But keeping a restaurant afloat can be particularly grueling. 20 percent of restaurants close within a year and 60 percent shutter within five years, according to the U Bureau of Labor Statistics. On top of that, the average full-service restaurant carried $51,863