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Zeba Parkar is proof you can build a career out of your hobby. She initially moved to the US and landed in the Midwest for a Ph.D. in material sciences and engineering. There, her long-time passion for gardening was brought indoors and she had to figure out the best
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Jim Schimpf saw the problems with recruiting hourly workforce employees long before any talk of the Great Resignation. He was a senior recruiter for TEKsystems, one of the largest IT staffing and recruiting firms, before ultimately moving into the startup space. He told Hypepotamus that hourly workforce turnover can exceed
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‘User-friendly cybersecurity’ isn’t a phrase you’ve likely to run into often. There’s a reason for that, says otto Chief Product Officer Chad Fowler. “The cybersecurity industry not only tolerates [things that aren’t user friendly], I think it welcomes it,” Fowler told Hypepotamus. “I think there is
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Move over Gmail. The team behind Telios believes they have an answer to all of our email woes and have created a safer, more robust email service that is better equipped to help us communicate on future iterations of the Internet. Taking on the likes of Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, and
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Calm Mattier, a Georgia Tech physics graduate turned teacher turned developer, is stepping into the CTO role for the fast-growing Atlanta startup Lillii RNB Inc. That team, which includes the fraud detection platform Freeing Returns, raised $3 million seed round from Serena William’s venture fund this April to help
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Atlanta has attracted international tech talent over the years, including most recently Serge Kadjo, an industrial engineer, entrepreneur, and self-proclaimed “idea converter.” His ideas have taken him across four continents as he’s helped both robotics-focused ventures and CleanTech startups scale. But it was a dry cleaning startup in Atlanta
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You’d be hardpressed to find a tech company recently that doesn’t explicitly mention the local young talent pool as the main reason for setting up shop in the State of Georgia. Airbnb, Nike, Google, Microsoft, and countless other household names have relocated or added offices in the city
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Atlanta’s cloud supply chain company Stord has been a hot ticket for investors over the last 16 months. The team has raised $155 million between its Series C in March 2021 and Series D in September 2021, attracting national VC firms like Kleiner Perkins, Bond, Lux Capital, and Salesforce
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Staffing shortages have plagued restaurants in the wake of the pandemic, causing many to close or drastically reduce hours and the number of tables available on any given day. But as the restaurant veterans behind Birmingham startup Croux know, the issue didn’t start with COVID. “Turnover has always been
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The Rounds is a startup with a forward-thinking game plan to make households more sustainable. To accomplish this, they are taking inspiration from something a bit old school: The neighborhood milkman. As a refill subscription and logistics service, The Rounds delivers common household items that members request each week – be
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Like many students, the co-founders behind PettyGigs worked their way through college. But rather than just using that experience to pay tuition, William Ward and Alois Monger used the experience to build better opportunities for the next generation of students to earn money in a more flexible manner. The PettyGig’
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The payments paused, but the problem only grew. American adults now owe over $1.75 trillion in federal and private student loans, an amount that ballooned even though federal loan payments paused at the start of the pandemic. The State of Georgia carries a particularly high burden when it comes