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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.

Meet The 10 Startups Selected For Techstars Atlanta's 2024 Cohort

Meet The 10 Startups Selected For Techstars Atlanta's 2024 Cohort

Techstars Atlanta Powered By Cox Enterprises didn’t have to look too far from home to find the startups for its 2024 cohort. Over half of the startups selected come from either Atlanta or the great Southeast region. From AI-powered marketplaces to roommates matching apps, here are the startups just

Morehouse Students To Be Introduced To AI TAs This Fall

Morehouse Students To Be Introduced To AI TAs This Fall

Morehouse College students might walk onto campus this coming fall and be greeted by an AI TA. Certain professors at the HBCU in Atlanta will be adopting a digitized, animated, AI-powered version of themselves that can answer class questions at any time. That can help professors clear up their schedules

Attention Female Founders: There's A New $100K Pitch Competition Coming To Atlanta This Fall

Attention Female Founders: There's A New $100K Pitch Competition Coming To Atlanta This Fall

New York's early-stage, women-led VC firm HearstLab is coming to Atlanta this fall...and they want to hear pitches from local female founders. HearstLab has picked Atlanta for its next live pitch event location. Selected companies will pitch in front of a live audience and an expert panel

Over 11 million job seekers are using this Atlanta-based app to find jobs in their own backyards

Over 11 million job seekers are using this Atlanta-based app to find jobs in their own backyards

Over half of the Americans are part of the hourly workforce. And yet the big job board players aren't designed with them — or their employers — in mind. Most job boards, like LinkedIn and Indeed, focus on salaried positions and aren't suitable for high turnover positions. That

Startup "SuperApp" Kiksasa Wants To Help Founders Level Up

Startup "SuperApp" Kiksasa Wants To Help Founders Level Up

Question for startup founders out there: How many software subscriptions do you have for you and your team? Chances are your team spends the day bouncing between Slack, email, HubSpot, Notion, LinkedIn, a few different project management tools, and whatever platform holds your code. But as Metro Atlanta founders Kelly

New AI startups are all the rage. But established companies are also staking their claim as AI innovators.

New AI startups are all the rage. But established companies are also staking their claim as AI innovators.

Glitzy new artificial intelligence startups are popping up everywhere, and they’ve taken a bulk of venture capital checks written over the last year and a half. But it’s not just early-stage startups that are building the latest AI products. Seasoned tech companies, especially those in the Southeast, may

Fast-Growing Atlanta Fintech Lands New Bay Area Investor For $20 Million Series A

Fast-Growing Atlanta Fintech Lands New Bay Area Investor For $20 Million Series A

Rainforest is making a strong case that it is Atlanta’s fintech startup to watch. Since getting an infusion of seed capital last October, the team has grown its payment volume by 17x. It found a sweet spot serving mid-market customers, which other major players in the embedded payments world