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After publishing five books himself, Anthony “AJ” Joiner knew writers needed a tech solution to shape their ideas into books and get those books into the hands of more readers. He’s taken his background as a software project manager into the publishing world with Blooksy, an Atlanta-based subscription-based SaaS
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Shegun Otulana’s most recent startup venture ended with a $1.2 billion acquisition. Following that success, Otulana is dedicating to scaling the next round of Birmingham-based startups. Birmingham has been Otulana’s home since studying at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). After working in the technology and
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As a tech startup founder, Pete Bernardo knows getting feedback is an essential part of any project. But unfortunately, he also knows that getting and organizing that feedback can be next to impossible. "Getting projects over the finish line is often more about getting everyone's approval and
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Eight French startups have reached unicorn status in the first half of 2021 alone, making it one of the fastest-growing startup hubs in Europe. Atlanta could play a unique role in creating even more “FrenchTech” in the near future. Atlanta received accreditation by La French Tech, a French government-back initiative,
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Carly Simenauer started her entrepreneurial journey to take on one of the most universal of truths: Feminine hygiene dispensers in public restrooms are just plain awful. “Most dispensers are dilapidated, rusted, or abandoned...they're not stocked or they don’t work. Most of them are absolute garbage,” Simenauer
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That stack of random gift cards in your wallet could be turned directly into cash in your bank account, thanks to a Birmingham-based startup. Prepaid2Cash, which moved its HQ from San Francisco to Birmingham, Alabama’s Innovation Depot back in 2019, has seen rapid growth over the course of the
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Junko Tabei, the first woman to summit Mount Everest in 1975, serves as an apt namesake for one fast-growing startup in Birmingham. It certainly does take grit and perseverance to improve how tech companies source great talent. Joonko, the brainchild of Ilit Raz, is a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)
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Atlanta is no stranger to new construction projects. Now, it’s home to a startup looking to “crunch” the numbers and legal jargon behind those projects. Originally headquartered in South Florida, DocumentCrunch’s founding team is composed of construction lawyers who have seen firsthand the pain points embedded in commercial
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What starts as a tech-based idea must find product-market fit, paying customers, and a stellar team to even begin trying to scale as a business. Part of scaling often involves bringing in a PR team. When we sat down with Blair Ruth Riley, newly appointed VP of Cloud at ARPR,
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Betty Blocks, a Netherlands-based application platform as a service (aPaaS) startup with a strong presence in Atlanta, already counts Deloitte, The Salvation Army, and the National Dutch Police as core customers. Now, the team has raised $33 million in funding to help non-programmers build apps. “We are focused on business
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Before we can unbox and power up a new laptop or drive off the lot with a new electric vehicle, someone has to test the batteries against a set of strict safety, performance, and even country-specific standards. That someone quite likely is Cindy Millsaps. Or at least someone on her
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A struggle over an apartment security deposit has been spun into a rapidly scaling startup with roots across the Southeast. Based out of New Orleans, RentCheck was started after Lydia Winkler was moving out of her first-year law school apartment. “I never got my security deposit back,” she tells Hypepotamus.