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Michael Arrieta worked across the tech world at fast-growing startups and large-scale IT enterprises alike. Now in the private equity space, he’s thinking small. He’s thinking about small, family-owned service businesses, that is. He founded Garden City Equity, an Atlanta-based private equity firm, to invest in the “very
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Techstars Atlanta and Techstars Social Impact have become integral accelerators in the area, launching startups like MaxRewards, 2ULaundry, and EnMass Energy. Now, Atlanta will be the first US city to host a pre-accelerator program designed specifically to help female-founded companies grow. Techstars Founder Catalyst Program in Partnership with J.P.
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Startup founders dream of having Mario Cambardella’s timing. He’d been thinking about the troubles of the plant supply chain over the course of his career in landscape architecture and urban agriculture. His passion for horticulture and innovation led him to start his first company after graduate school and
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For entrepreneur and investor Aaron Patzer, the jump from financial apps to emergency room software is shorter than you might expect. After founding the personal finance app Mint.com (acquired by Intuit) and mobile video assistance platform Fountain, Patzer teamed up with his brother-in-law, Dr. Justin Schrager, Emory emergency room
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“I wasn't trying to start a company. Honestly, I was just volunteering and helping [LSU] out.” That volunteer effort for Jack Karavich was centered around getting college football season up and running again during the pandemic. But there was an engineering and design problem standing in the way:
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HR has been front and center as businesses of all sizes navigate labor shortages, new office realities, and future of work conversations spurred by the pandemic. “WorkTech”, which broadly includes recruitment, assessment, and interviewing tools, brought in $28.4 billion in venture capital investment since the beginning of 2017. It
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For Atlanta-based entrepreneur Jordan Stevens, his startup mudstack is more than just a professional passion. The name and concept behind the startup pay homage to Stevens’ professor and mentor, Marty Altman, who Stevens described as a “straight-up doppelganger of Ron Swanson” and with a full collection of Hawaiian t-shirts and
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Move over Amazon. The nature of e-commerce is changing, thanks to live stream commerce options making shopping more personal and interactive. Livestream commerce originated in China in 2015 and has become an integral part of the country’s e-commerce landscape ever since. A McKinsey report estimates the market reached $171
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Sammie Hasen’s passion for entrepreneurship and consumer products started well before joining Georgia Tech’s accelerator Create-X. As an “idea maker,” Hasen said she dabbled in entrepreneurship with a t-shirt brand early in her early teens before heading to Georgia Tech to study biomedical engineering. While at tech, Hasen
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The Southeast's largest and most prestigious venture capital conference, Venture Atlanta, has launched several area unicorns and helped startups raised $6.5 billion in funding to date. 91 new companies selected to present on the stage in 2021 will look to continue that momentum. CEO Allyson Eman said
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The second iteration of Google For Startups Black Founders Found is a lesson in the power of community. The 76 founders in the inaugural 2020 cohort were asked to nominate their startup peers to take part in the fund in 2021. 50 of those candidates were selected and will receive
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You might say the past and the future are colliding in Pass It Down’s latest investment. VentureSouth, Cultivation Capital, Techstars, Red Stick Angels, and Acadian Capital Ventures joined in on a nearly $2 million seed round to launch Iconic Moments, an NFT (non-fungible token) marketplace created by the team