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From its home in Music City, Spiny wants to give the publishing space a modern makeover. The startup’s founding team – Nana B. Nyantekyi, Shannon Terry, and Andrew Johnson – include titans in the digital publishing world, having been part of building up comicbook.com, the online college football network Rivals,
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Karim Budhwani was so passionate about crushing cancer, he went back and got his PhD on the subject. At the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Budhwani focused on disease modeling and cancer therapeutic discovery, ultimately graduated with a PhD in Material Science and Engineering in 2018. Instead of turning
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After bootstrapping for years, transportation startup CharterUP just raised its Series A as it looks to change the way we all think about buses. “When I started CharterUP in 2018, the charter bus industry had seen little innovation in over 30 years. CharterUP has been singularly focused on disrupting the
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These recent college graduates want you to give matchmaking a whirl. Ted Middleton and Anna Lummus were students at Wake Forest University when they started setting up their single friends who ran on different social circles on campus. What initially started a blind date service via Google Sheets and Google
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In 2020, the Hypepotamus team wrote that it would be a good idea to keep an eye on Sevetri Wilson, a New Orleans tech entrepreneur and founder of nonprofit business intelligence platform Resilia. All eyes are certainly on Wilson this week as she makes history. Resilia’s new $35 million
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Efficiency is the name of the game for Eventeny, a Peachtree City-based event management startup. The team has built up an all-in-one platform for event producers. By organizing vendor information, creating a space to rally volunteers, and providing a mapping solution for event day layouts, Eventeny has helped over 3,
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It’s all As for Allstacks this week. The North Carolina-based SaaS startup just closed its $12.3 million Series A, a funding round backed by big names like enterprise software giant Atlassian. The Series A was led by Boston-based Companyon Ventures, with additional participation from Atlassian Ventures, CreativeCo, Hyperplane
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Ubiquitous is a match-making service for the influencer age. The Atlanta-based startup describes itself as a Hinge-like platform connecting businesses and TikTok influencers. That is important because the traditional branded content “match-making” process is cumbersome and manual for brands looking to tap digital content creators for their marketing efforts, according
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The Asheville, North Carolina-based team behind Netmaker wants to change the nature of networking. Now, this isn’t about improving your small talk abilities. Netmaker is tackling the realities of internet networking, or how devices connect to one another even when they are in different physical locations. The team describes
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At first glance, there seems to be two conflicting narratives out there right now on the “state of work.” It is hard to ignore the latest layoff-centric headlines, which hit big tech firms earlier this year before trickling into other job sectors. But at the same time, quiet quitting remains
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There’s a long-standing internal debate inside Fullstory, an Atlanta-based startup that hit unicorn status in 2021. Specifically, Fullstory team members go back and forth about how they pronounce the name of the audience participation platform BWAMP, according to Chief People Officer Gabrielle Sirner-Cohen. “Is it pronounced bwaaaahmp (like swamp)
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It may sound counterintuitive, but the team over at Charityvest is seeing some positive momentum in the charitable giving space even as economic uncertainty looms. “I'm hearing across the charitable sector there is some downward movement towards giving overall, but as I talk to folks in the donor