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Theatergoers in Metro Atlanta will be familiar with Anthony Rodriguez, the co-founder and producing artistic director for Lawrenceville’s popular Aurora Theater. But the next “act” in his career is about building a new type of gathering spot. Rodriguez took over as Executive Director of HUB404 in June of this
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Norfolk Southern might be synonymous with transportation, but a new partnership between the railroad giant and ATDC (Georgia’s Advanced Tech Development Center) is set to highlight Norfolk Southern’s work in the sustainability space. ATDC’s new sustainability-focused technology initiative, announced this week, will officially launch early next year
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Steve Young and Jerry Rice connected for a record-setting 92 touchdowns as a legendary quarterback-wide receiver duo in the NFL. Now, the former 49ers and three-time Super Bowl champions are teaming up again…but this time in Falcon territory. The two are part of launching the “8 to 80 Zones
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Any way you slice the numbers, there is certainly a “glaring gap” in the venture capital community. On the founder side of the table, women-founded startups received just 2.3% of all VC dollars invested in 2020 (down from a record 2.8% in 2019), according to available Crunchbase data.
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Love is in the air for the Atlanta startup scene right now. Last week, Hypepotamus shared the story of Whirl, a Techstars Atlanta-backed app that brings a modern twist to the art of matchmaking. Now, a new type of app is launching to help daters move beyond the photo-centric realities
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If you're an athlete, Ali Barnes has an app that might be music to your ears. ProElite is a unique training app that teaches sports fundamentals through music. As a lifelong basketball player turned trainer, Barnes started experimenting with using clapping and rhythm as a method for teaching
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Hypepotamus first caught up with Nashville-based LASSO all the way back in 2015 as the startup was building a streamlined events management platform. Since then the team – and the events space as a whole – has transformed. Live events first were dealt a blow from COVID. Now, the industry is trying
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Just 18 months since its founding, Freedom Games has big plans for the indie video game market. The Alabama startup just raised its first round of outside capital, a $10 million seed round led by Singapore-based gaming VC firm Play Ventures. Nashville Capital Network and San Francisco-based GFR Fund also
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Charlotte-based ThreatSwitch is taking the acquisition route as it looks to grow its Charlotte-based team. The security compliance startup announced this week it was acquired by Sign In Solutions, a visitor management and risk mitigation software. Sign In’s US headquarters is in St. Petersburg, and it is a portfolio
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Born and raised in Colombia, Lily Hagen said she struggled trying to raise her kids in a bilingual household in the United States. “I thought it was going to be a breeze to teach my kids Spanish, but it was not. It was super, super hard,” she told Hypepotamus. “But
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Every second counts for the clients of the Tampa startup SOMA Global. But law enforcement, EMS, fire, dispatch, social service, and correctional organizations face a unique set of challenges when it comes to embracing technology, says Mike Mattson, Chief Growth Officer at SOMA Global. “The public safety industry is riddled
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Brea Fullerton jokes that she’s been playing Monopoly within the walls of Saltbox. She originally moved her small business, a consumer brand company called Shinery, into a 120 square foot space inside of the hybrid warehouse and office environment first piloted in Atlanta’s Westside in 2021. But soon