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With the close of its $53 million Fund IV, Durham-based Bull City Venture Partners (BCVP) is poised to help keep the “flywheel” of local tech successes going. The team has been investing in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic region over the last decade, having backed startups like Get Spiffy, Spoonflower, and
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Navigating the local elections can feel like a full-time job during midterm and primary seasons. But just listening to TV ads or reading postcards mailed from different candidates won’t give a full picture of who local officials are and what they will do for the state. To tackle this
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New QR codes are popping up on streets across Atlanta. While they aren’t part of any public art project or guerrilla marketing campaign, the team behind the effort believes these will help the city get a better understanding of the ‘state of the streets.’ Atlanta-based iAccess Life, a lifestyle
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“Professional Plant Girl” and UGA student Kristen Dunning said she became an “entrepreneur by accident” after handing out soap at different horticulture research seminars. As an undergraduate in horticultural sciences, Dunning told Hypepotamus she spent years inside a greenhouse studying medicinal plants. She soon realized the commercial appeal of her
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The team behind Atlanta-based Charityvest believes it is time to innovate the philanthropic space. That means creating a FinTech solution that “delivers dollars to charities faster and more easily and in ways that make donors feel more comfortable,” said co-founder Stephen Kump. Charityvest has expanded the use cases for donor-advised
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When T.C. Whittaker started Audit Sight last year, he and his co-founder Jonathan Womack knew what the startup’s first guiding principle would be: “Everything we build must eliminate work for an auditor.” That was something that resonated with the two trained CPAs. Whittaker, a Tennessee native and longtime
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Editor's Note: Since this article was first published, the company has gone through a rebrand and is now called Freeing Returns. The article was updated on March 13, 2023 to reflect the update. You can learn more about Freeing Returns here. When the idea that would become Freeing
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It was almost like Chattanooga-based Text Request was born for this moment. The eight-year-old SaaS startup helps organizations communicate more efficiently with customers via text messaging campaigns. The idea was certainly scalable back when the startup first got off the ground. But the team has entered “hyper-growth” mode, said CEO
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Earth Day started in the 1970s as a way to bring awareness to environmental science and conservation efforts. But as businesses and individuals search for more green alternatives, awareness is no longer enough, says Venkatesh Kini, co-founder at Ubuntoo. “Too often, companies get credit for bold ambitions but don'
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It’s easy for any business to slap an environmental pledge or DEI commitment on an “About Us” part of the website. But for Nathan A. Stuck, “it’s hard to differentiate between a well-intentioned social impact plan and a really good marketing campaign.” But more local businesses — ranging from
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After an impressive corporate career, Elise Cambournac’s next chapter is all about helping the Nashville tech community “reach its full potential,” she said. Cambournac was named president and CEO of the Greater Nashville Technology Council last month, an organization with members across Middle Tennessee dedicated to growing and connecting
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Reflekt Me may have just moved to town, but the RetailTech startup is no stranger to the Atlanta startup ecosystem. The startup, dedicated to making e-commerce shopping a more inclusive and engaging experience, was part of the Creative Destruction Lab’s 2021 cohort at Georgia Tech. Co-founders Tope Mitchell, Ph.