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Nine early-stage startups across Louisiana recently graduated from the VILLAGEx accelerator program, and a subset of them brought in a combined $9.5 million in funding. For Jon Atkinson, CEO of The Idea Village, it shows the momentum of the Louisiana tech ecosystem. “Startup founders are a highly adaptable breed
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As US travel begins to come back in 2021, a Nashville-based tech startup is looking to make tourism more personal. Stroll, a location-based, personalized app, is what CEO John Mark (JM) Eberhardt describes as a local city guide mixed with Instagram. Beyond a map or utility app, Eberhardt told Hypepotamus
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Filmmakers, engineers, and entrepreneurs are coming together to bring a new type of adventure to the Eastside BeltLine trail. Illuminarium, an experiential educational and entertainment venue, is launching this summer with a ‘reprogrammable’ immersive theater. Its first adventure: A full African safari. The interactive virtual experience will allow visitors to
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When COVID shut down their shop space, three NC State graduates spent the spring and summer of 2020 in a parking lot building the future of hybrid cars. “We had freezing rain, then 100-degree heat in the middle of summer,” Micah Ulrich told Hypepotamus. “I never could have predicted that
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Two North Carolina startups are teaming up to turn words into enterprise gold. Winston Salem-based Fluree, which is backed by Atlanta’s Engage program, is working with Lead Semantics on TextDistil, a platform to build custom language processing pipelines for enterprise data. TextDistil turns text and unstructured data from contracts,
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Three Shipt alumni are rethinking the way we network. Linq, a networking tech startup hailing from Birmingham, just closed a $2.5 million seed round to grow its QR and “near field communication” (NFC) platform. The round was led by Mucker Capital with participation from Alabama Futures Fund and Shipt
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Founded in 1994, Atlanta-based Incentive Solutions has evolved with the shifting marketing and advertising landscape. As a leader in the incentive industry, the company focuses on software to build group travel, online rewards, and gift card programs. For CEO Mark Hebert, building up channel marketing programs is the “all-encompassing task
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In just over a year, Atlanta-based Collab Capital closed its $50 million inaugural fund. Collab’s founding team is Jewel Burks Solomon, Justin Dawkins, and Barry Givens. Dawkins and Givens sat down with Hypepotamus last summer to discuss the fund’s investing thesis, fostering Black innovation, and building generational wealth.
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One Atlanta-based healthcare giant is staking its claim in the city’s entrepreneurial scene. Wellstar Health Systems announced it will join Engage’s growing list of corporate partners. As a hybrid innovation and corporate venture platform, Engage is designed to connect enterprise startups with corporate sponsors and academic research to
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We’ve come a long way from the time of makeshift masks and watered-down hand sanitizer that plagued the spring of 2020. And while vaccine rollouts have brought new hope for the end of the pandemic, manufacturers across the state of Georgia are continuing to fill in a critical personal
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Atlanta students have once again shown their entrepreneurial prowess on the global stage. Insight Optics, an Atlanta-based and Georgia Tech-founded HealthTech platform assisting primary care providers with retinal screenings, took third in this month’s TiE University Global Pitch Competition. The virtual competition is one part of TiE's
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One emerging media platform has big plans to build the future of streaming right from Atlanta. LoCo+, a city-based streaming network officially launching in the summer of 2021, is looking to bring premium, locally-produced content to digital media fans. Its founding team has deep roots in media, entrepreneurship, and technology.