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Employee wellness has been a hot-button issue over the last several years as C-Suites look to keep employees engaged and connected. That conversation has spurred a new group of entrepreneurs, like Atlanta-based founder Jessica Thomas. Thomas built up her career in the healthcare insurance space, which helped her realize what
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Alim Charaniya is no stranger to making big bets. He moved to Atlanta and was an early lead engineer at PrizePicks, a fast-growing fantasy sports startup based in Atlanta, and helped build version two of its mobile app. Now, Charaniya is betting big on the rise of the no code
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UGA mechanical engineering student Alex Breazu already has an impressive resume filled with internships and job at places like NCR, Nintendo, and the FAA. There is one job you won’t see on LinkedIn: proud “plant parent.” Yet it is that job that helped launch his latest entrepreneurial endeavor, Plantfi.
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Startup founder Tamara Lucas is in growth mode. She initially launched My Panda, a hyperlocal consumer platform connecting busy people to personal assistants, in Decatur, Georgia. She's now looking to expand the platform to other neighborhoods and cities in the Metro Atlanta area. But even with her growth
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Starting a tech company during the height of COVID teaches you business skills that can be applied far beyond the context of a global health crisis, says logistics founder Patrick Visintainer. “We founded and launched REPOWR in the heat of the COVID-19 pandemic, so we don’t really know what
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"For the most part, the best you can do in grad school is that [your work] gets published," Laura Stoy said. “A lot of time science doesn't leave the lab." But that wasn’t enough for Stoy, who saw a major market opportunity within her
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Q1 2023 was certainly one for the record books. More tech companies joined the growing list of firms to lay off talent. 157,000 tech jobs across the country were eliminated over the first three months of the year. 1,500 of those jobs were directly connected to Southeast-founded companies,
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Mental health startups represent the fastest growing tech sector in 2023, according to VC firm a16z. These ventures are addressing an urgent problem, as the CDC reports the percentage of US adults with signs of anxiety or depressive disorders has risen dramatically over the last three years. The numbers are
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A group of Georgia Tech students, representing five different majors, just took home the “Best Student Game” award at the Independent Game Festival (IGF) in San Francisco. The Festival, which has been around since 1998, recognizes the best and most talented independent game developers bringing new concepts to life. Slider,
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Mo Hamzian says the future of work revolves around the reimagining of the standard coffee shop. He’s launched VEL, a tech-forward work cafe chain designed for flexible work, to help remote employees. Yes, the coffee shop has long been a favorite work spot for digital nomads, freelancers, and those
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Scott Matthews will be getting some serious airline miles in the near future. The New York-based executive was just officially named the new CEO of Verusen, an Atlanta-based supply chain startup. Matthews told Hypepotamus that he is dedicated to scaling the business from Atlanta, and he will begin commuting down
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Now valued at $50 million, Florida-based construction tech startup Togal.AI is adding to its cap table. The team, led by former congressman Patrick Murphy, closed a $5 million pre-Series A this week. The SAFE round was from a mix of new and existing investors Florida Funders, Coastal Construction, alongside