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Jasmine Crowe set out to change how communities eat. Since launching Atlanta-based Goodr in 2017 as a sustainable surplus food management platform, she’s become known for her external work helping connect people with food, creating community food banks, and tackling the logistical challenges that create hunger. To date, Goodr
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Scott Monroe noticed something important was missing when he left the Marine Corps and started his career as a firefighter. “The military does performance management, promotional processes, team building, and organizational structure really well. And I thought it would be similar on the civilian side with public safety. But it
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Since cryptocurrency emerged on the scene in 2008, veteran investors and miners have navigated their fair share of ups and downs in the market. But the latest downturn feels a bit different, mostly because crypto has become more mainstream. Many casual investors were introduced to the space through NFTs (non-fungible
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When Hypepotamus last caught up with Tommy Linstroth and his Savannah-based Green Badger in 2018, they were already alleviating a big problem in the construction world. The pandemic and the growing corporate sustainability movement put the focus on what our built environment looks like even more front and center. Linstroth
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The US tech world and its investors are navigating uncertain waters. While unemployment numbers remain at an all-time low, larger tech companies have made major headlines recently for layoffs, hiring freezes, and declining valuations. The latest statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that while the number of job
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Steph Tulley sees her age as a strength as she takes on the InsurTech space. She went from a receptionist at a small insurance company to owning her own insurance brokerage firm in just eight years. As her career developed throughout her early twenties, Tulley saw that the insurance space
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From dating apps to LinkedIn intros to Instagram DMs, a good chunk of our in-person interactions today start in the digital world. Brad Loflin and Roy Odima saw an opportunity to better facilitate digital introductions…and along the way created a new way to think about financial technology. Loflin and
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Well before Capital on Tap opened its office in Midtown Atlanta, the London-based fintech startup already had deep roots in the city. Co-founder and CEO David Luck is an Emory graduate. COO Damian Brychcy grew up in Metro Atlanta and holds degrees from both Georgia Tech and the University of
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When Hypepotamus first introduced readers to Noelle London back in 2017, she was a recent Atlanta transplant ready to drive innovation through her work at Invest Atlanta. Now in 2022, she’s moved to the other side of the proverbial founder-investor table with the launch of Illoominus. “I've
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The team behind Arcum Partners thinks the merchant services space is missing something pretty critical. “For an industry that has the word ‘services’ in it, there is a huge lack of services,” co-founder Sebastian Builes explained to Hypepotamus. The Atlanta-based team built out an analytics platform to help payment processors
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John Howard has the goods to back up the superlative of being the founder with the ‘most swagger’ in the Metro Atlanta area. He started Slingshot after years as a designer and after building up the creative software development firm Black Airplane. Company swag bags were a necessary part of
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When a city’s mayor shows up at a work conference, you know there is something special going on. Mayor Andre Dickens — along with an impressive “who’s who” list of Atlantans in tech, music, arts, and business — took part in the Render(ATL) conference this year. This has quickly