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Armed with a new name and a new set of core customers, the team behind Inclusivv (formerly Civic Dinners) is building what they call the “Peloton for empathy.” Over the last two years, they’ve attracted an impressive list of corporate clients, graduated from Techstars Social Impact, grown to a
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After navigating COVID shutdowns, companies of all sizes are now dealing with “The Great Resignation.” The latest job numbers suggest nearly 3% of the American workforce resigned during the month of August alone. That has created a unique opportunity for tech companies looking for ways to attract and retain top
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Since Gretchen Lynn joined as Levelset’s employee #1 back in 2011, she’s been part of making sure those in the construction industry never “lose a night’s sleep over payment.” The New Orleans-based SaaS platform has scaled over the last decade to help contractors get paid for a
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Residents in Peachtree Corners will soon have a new way to get around town this fall, thanks to a new fleet of autonomous shuttles. PAUL (Piloting Autonomous Use Locally) will launch next week for residents shuffling between City Hall and breweries, hotels, and other key spots along Research Drive. The
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For an Atlanta-based mother-daughter entrepreneurial team, deep conversations can start right in the App Store. Seventh-grader Serenity Marie and her mom Quyionah Wingfield recently launched Gen Connect Game, a platform to spark more family engagement through a curated list of questions and in-app activities. Gen Connect also comes with a
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Atlanta started 2021 off with Calendly and Salesloft crossing the $1 billion valuation mark, putting the focus on the city’s impressive productivity and ‘SalesTech’ space. Michael Gorodisher has watched the sales landscape change over the course of his career as new software and techstack options sprung up to help
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The “Beauty Tech” industry boomed during pandemic lockdowns, and it isn’t showing signs of slowing down anytime soon. The beauty device market alone is expected to reach $107.2 billion by 2024, especially as at-home styling trends continue to grow in 2021. While Atlanta-based DashStylists is bringing a tech-enabled
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Long before catching the eye of Andreessen Horowitz investors or deploying its technology nationally, Flock Safety’s founding team was thinking about company culture. That piqued the interest of veteran recruiter and Emory graduate Aynn Collins, who first met Flock’s young team over three years ago when she was
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Cameron Ramsdell built his career around the shipping and logistics industry. But he wasn’t initially sold on trucking. While US Census data shows there are 711,000 different trucking companies employing over 3.5 million people, Ramsdell told Hypepotamus that the industry remained fragmented and largely adverse to technology
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The JumpFund ‘hit it out of the park,’ you might say, with its first-ever investment. The Chattanooga-based early-stage angel fund invested in the women-led, Louisville-based mobile fan engagement platform SuperFan back in 2014. Since then The JumpFund’s Kristina Montague told Hypepotamus the fund watched SuperFan’s team grow their
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First, it was COVID. Then trade tensions. Then winter storms and international power outages. Then ships stuck in canals and an unprecedented labor shortage. All news became supply chain news in 2021, as the global economy looked to rebound and rebalance in the wake of the pandemic. “At the beginning
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The Southeast region is now home to over 300 individual venture capital firms, according to data collected by Embarc Collective and Build In SE’s Southeast Capital Landscape Report, a directory of active investors in the region. That number — 309 at the time of this publication — is up more than