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Coming off of a $76 million Series A funding round, Irish FinTech startup Wayflyer has its eyes on Atlanta. With a focus on providing flexible financing options for growing eCommerce brands, CEO Aidan Corbett told Hypepotamus that 75% of the company’s clients are in the US. Wayflyer already has
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Two North Carolina entrepreneurs are measuring success by the second. Ben Hardison and Camden Conekin, co-founders of Padeo, are working to improve website loading times for various websites through predictive analytics and pre-loading technology. When it comes to loading times, seconds matter. Even a few-second delay drastically increases the chances
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Bank Shot, an Atlanta-based FinTech startup focused on improving the real estate earnest money process, has tapped Emily Traxler as its new CEO. Traxler brings her work in software startups and customer success experience to the real estate tech company. She is taking over from the startup’s founders Bernardine
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Google for Startups Black Founders Fund is back for 2021. The $5 million fund, announced today, will give $100,000 in non-dilutive funds to 50 Black startup founders across the country. But Atlanta’s influence is all over this national program. Google for Startups US, headed by Jewel Burks Solomon,
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Based on her personal experience while living in Baltimore, Laura Mitchell knew it was time to create a new type of community. “As a queer woman, everywhere I've lived, it's been really hard to find community, especially outside of bars and dating apps,” she told Hypepotamus.
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Cousins Marlon Brown and Kendrick Pullen are on a mission to change how and when we send messages. That’s no small task, given that individuals and companies alike are really more and more on SMS, iMessage, and other app-based messaging services to connect with clients and potential customers. “Send
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NowAccount knew they had a solution to help small businesses better manage invoices and payments. Coming out of the pandemic, the team, including Georgia Tech alumna Lara Hodgson and Spelman alumna — and former State Representative — Stacey Abrams, closed a $9.5 million Series A round to scale. Abrams talked about
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Women make up less than 5% of all venture capitalists in the country. That statistic alone is enough to make anyone pause. But a new group is looking to build community and create opportunities for women check writers and fund managers in the Southeast region. WISE (Women Investors in the
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A Techstars Social Impact Accelerator graduate finished off the month of May with a $2,153,485 equity round and is ready to take on supply chain management in the EnergyTech space. Durham-based EnMass Energy looks to simplify the supply chain for energy businesses by connecting data from suppliers, transporters,
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Networking events have transformed over the last year and a half, but that isn’t stopping the momentum over at Network Under 40 (NU40). The team just announced it has been acquired by Meeting of the Minds, a private membership community for high-growth entrepreneurs also based in Atlanta, Georgia. Meeting
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Atlanta-based Automotive Ventures has closed its inaugural, oversubscribed $7 million fund. The fund looks to invest in the expanding automotive and mobility space, which includes the electrification of cars, the explosion of auto-specific data analytics, and sensor technology, and even how we think about car ownership. Steve Greenfield and Justin
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Louisville, Kentucky’s growing tech startup scene has caught the attention of San Francisco-based investment firm TPG. The Rise Fund, TPG’s global impact investing platform, announced it has invested $100 million in Climavision, a weather technology and intelligence platform looking to mitigate the economic risks of climate change and