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Less than a year after opening up its waiting list, Greenwood has garnered over 100,000 individual banking customers. But customer acquisition is just one part of the success story for the Atlanta-based banking and fintech startup. Greenwood also acquired The Gathering Spot and Valence, two professional community networks, and
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Startup founders are known to get scrappy when it comes to finding office space, maybe turning a garage, a spare bedroom, or a co-working space into an early-stage HQ. Not Andrew Scholtens out in Marietta, Georgia. He found startup office space for his venture OinkChing in a historic cemetery. Yes,
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A part of the Tampa startup scene is currently orbiting the moon as part of NASA’s Artemis I mission. StemRad, an Israeli-based startup with strong roots in Tampa, is testing out its AstroRad technology – a vest designed to protect astronauts from deep space radiation – on board the uncrewed space
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The Center for MedTech Excellence is ready to build the next generation of medical devices and medical technologies within the City of Atlanta. Housed in Georgia Tech’s Enterprise Innovation Institute, the 16-week mentoring and training program just announced its inaugural class of 17 early-stage startups looking to bring their
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Atlanta-based Saltbox, a co-warehousing startup, is rolling into the holiday season with a $35 million Series B from Cox Enterprises and California-based Pendulum. The funding wraps up a busy year for Saltbox, which more than doubled its warehousing footprint in order to help small businesses navigate ecommerce logistics. The two
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Joshua Afolabi has big plans to redefine what “fast” really means in the fast fashion world. He is founder and CEO of Atlanta-based Tuggo Technologies Inc (2GGO), a platform that reduces shipping times for online shoppers. Online retail partners send inventory to the 2GGO fulfillment center in Atlanta, and that
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The nature of work certainly looks different today than it did when The Lola, the women-only coworking space in Atlanta, first opened its doors in the summer of 2019. But through a pandemic, The Great Resignation, and changing office dynamics, The Lola has found new ways to create community, says
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It was certainly a year of change for green technology. Sustainability Tech – including technology related to energy, climate, ESG, renewables, and carbon reduction – moved from a “nice to have” industry into a pillar in the overall tech scene. What drove that change? In short, regulation, legislation, and business sentiment. On
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End-of-the-year gifts aren’t just about finding the right stocking stuffers for the kids in your life. Tokens of gratitude are an important part of building business relationships and saying thanks to those in your rolodex, says Brendan Kamm, CEO and Co-Founder of Thnks. Such gifts can be an “extra
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Aarti Sahgal saw a fundamental flaw in how businesses work with people with disabilities. “For the last few years, the entire business community has been talking about ESGs and building a place of belonging,” she told Hypepotamus. But for the vast majority of businesses, DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) conversations
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Kashi Sehgal is no stranger to the Atlanta entrepreneurial scene. She was one of the originals working out of Atlanta Tech Village (ATV) and founded her first company – a market research messaging platform called Gigabark – 15 years ago in the city. Her entrepreneurial journey is on a bit more of
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Having grown up in a family of psychologists and pro athletes, T.M. Robinson-Mosley, Ph.D. says she understands the challenges elite athletes face. “When you’re a pro or collegiate athlete…you’ve invested thousands of hours,” Mosley added. “Athletes are often a vulnerable population that people do not