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The large funding round headlines keep coming in for the Atlanta tech scene. On the heels of its November 2020 $45 million Series C raise, Flock Safety just closed a $150 million Series D round to help scale. “Simply put, we are growing incredibly fast and the demand is increasing,
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Entrepreneurs working in the circular economy see both the financial and environmental advantages of rethinking e-waste. Atlanta entrepreneur Stephen Wakeling has watched the space transform over the last decade while building Phobio, a SaaS platform designed to facilitate electronic device trade-ins. “The useful life of a phone is being elongated,
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A startup founder must know they’re on to something when the name of their company becomes a verb. That’s exactly what founder and CEO Cherie Kloss hears from nurses and medical workers using SnapNurse to find short-term positions or travel nursing contracts. “We’re seeing people post ‘I
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Shimite Obialo was well aware of the statistics around Black and brown founders when she entered the VC startup space in 2017. The most recent data suggests that minority founders raised just 2.4% of all venture funding over the past six years. Obialo, a corporate finance attorney and entrepreneur,
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Despite being both a media and FinTech powerhouse, Atlanta has yet to become a hub for film financing. But one startup founding team — bringing together backgrounds in financial services, media, film funding, and venture capital — is ready to change that narrative. FilmHedge was born after Jon Gosier, an entrepreneur and
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It all started with a free slice of pizza. Matthew Gaffney, N. Victor Nwadike, and Kevin Tolliver were all Morehouse students when they first met at an internship info session on campus. While asking questions (and enjoying the free pizza, as all good college students do), the three realized they
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How VCs deploy capital is fundamentally flawed, says the team behind World Within Ventures. They’ve closed an inaugural $20 million fund to change the narrative around what funding humanitarian-focused startups can look like. World Within’s portfolio companies to date already provide interesting insight into how the founders think
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When Hypepotamus last spoke to Popmenu’s CEO Brendan Sweeney in the fall, the Atlanta SaaS startup had just raised a $17 million Series B to help restaurants stay afloat during pandemic closures. Now in summer 2021, Sweeney is seeing a drastic turn in the restaurant space. “There’s a
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Kevin Mobolade’s entrepreneurial journey into the FinTech space started after drawing a personal connection to a business white paper. Growing up, Mobalade said he watched his immigrant parents navigate both the “struggles and the triumphs” of the American financial system. The problem wasn't just personal; it is
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Chapel Hill resident Ryan Walsh knows the pain points sales professionals and sales organizations face. “For modern B2B organizations, especially growth organizations, the quest and the search for sales talent is one of — if not the highest — priority,” Walsh tells Hypepotamus. But for employees, gaining insight into the realities of
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Like any good early-stage founder, Ben McFarlin visited his potential customers directly when he wanted to test out a new business venture and FinTech idea. His customers just happened to be pumping gas. Long before the pandemic, McFarlin was looking to innovate the driver’s experience at the pump, and
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A spin-off startup from Ally Commerce, Green Feather, is finding a niche in the healthcare payments space. Atlanta-based Ally Commerce launched in 2007 as an end-to-end eCommerce technology provider for consumer durables companies. Green Feather got off the ground as the team saw a “demand from healthcare companies trying to