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A pandemic pivot literally opened up new worlds for The Labz. Founder Farah Allen started building a music collaboration space to alleviate the pains associated with copyrights and create a comfortable digital space for users to upload content. With Covid, Allen started getting requests to create event-focused spaces for those
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Sonar, an Atlanta-based CRM startup, grew at a pace most early-stage startups dream about. The team was a grand total of two people in January of 2020. That number was 15 by the end of the year. Following a $12 million Series A in early 2021, the Sonar team is
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Atlanta’s startup ecosystem brought investor Melissa Pegus to the city in 2021. Now, she’s taking a new position to help grow that ecosystem even more. Pegus has been tapped as the Managing Director for Techstars Atlanta Powered by J.P. Morgan, the latest accelerator to open up in
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The nature of work is changing. And if funding is any indication, the Southeast startup scene is helping to shape what’s next for companies. There are over 550 HR and recruiting-focused startups in the region, including many we’ve recently featured like Virginia-based Inclusively, Birmingham-based Boulo and Joonko, and
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Atlanta has a new $72 million fund dedicated to addressing women’s HealthTech. SteelSky Ventures, led by Maria Velissaris, closed its fund last week and is now the largest women’s healthcare VC fund in the country. Named after the New York City skyline, SteelSky was initially launched in the
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Atlanta is about to embark on its own type of space race, thanks to a new program housed at Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business. Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), an international organization for startup founders, is expanding its Space Stream into Atlanta and Paris. It aims to be the largest
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The co-founders of REPOWR know all about the traditional inefficiencies surrounding the logistics industry. Patrick Visintainer and Spencer Ware, who worked in logistics and transportation insurance and liability respectively, saw that trucks were often underutilized when it came to moving things from point A to point B. “[We] saw the
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Don’t let the name fool you. Tampa-based iink Payments is on a mission to eliminate the extra “ink” associated with the insurance industry. The problem stems around collecting signatures on physical checks. “When you get a check from the insurance company, they can oftentimes have as many as seven
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Geographic-specific startups face a unique challenge when it comes to scaling, as founders have to replicate success in each new market their open. That is something Atlanta-based startup Fetch knows well, CEO and co-founder Adam Steinberg told Hypepotamus. “In classic marketplaces, you want to balance growth with having great economics
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A year ago when we caught up with North Carolina-based Spiffy, the on-demand car care startup was rebounding from Covid with a new franchising expansion plan. A year into the franchising effort, Grayson Leverenz, Spiffy’s Chief Marketing Officer, told Hypepotamus that the startup has expanded into 10 markets and
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If it’s been a while since you went on a hike, walked around your local park, or smelled the proverbial roses in your own backyard, you aren’t alone. We live in what has been called the “Indoor Generation,” but a new Atlanta-based app is looking to shift that
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For Charlotte Dales, access to talent isn’t a pipeline problem. But companies have to start rethinking their hiring process if they want to create a strong employee base. “Everyone has come to think that to increase diversity all you need is access to pipeline. But that's taking