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AppHarvest, an agtech startup based in Kentucky, was one of 2019’s biggest tech stories from the Southeast. It appears that 2020 is off to a similarly fertile start in terms of funding, after the company's recent announcement of an $11 million financing round led by a couple
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Not even flash-flood weather conditions could dampen the mood this afternoon in the African American Hall of Fame at Morehouse College as three rainmakers sat together to talk about the intersection of technology and culture. TechSquare Labs founder and Morehouse grad Dr. Paul Judge interviewed two New York Times bestselling
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The last time Hypepotamus checked in on Trust Stamp, the Atlanta-based startup had developed facial recognition technology that was being used by the attorneys general of the U.S. and Mexico to find victims of human trafficking. But this was just one way that Trust Stamp was testing its solution’
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Insurtech SaaS startup Slope Software, based in the Atlanta suburb of Chamblee, recently had its own future slightly more insured, thanks to a seed round investment from Cofounders Capital. Founded by an actuary and a software engineer—veteran insurance industry professional Andy Smith and CTO Taylor Perkins, respectively—Slope announced
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With a statement from CEO and co-founder Geoff Arnold, and the addition of a new tagline—“Powered by Built”—beneath its logo, Iowa-based Lienwavers.io, a solution platform that manages lien waivers and payments for commercial and residential construction, confirmed its acquisition by Nashville-based Built Technologies. Built Technologies, a financial
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Techstars announced today the launch of the Cox Enterprises Social Impact Accelerator program, a partnership between the Atlanta-based entities that aims to drive community impact by leveraging innovative startups. Announced in June 2019, it's the second such impact-focused accelerator program from the Cox/Techstars partnership initiative, and the
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The ballroom of the Bishop Cornelius L. Henderson Student Center at Clark Atlanta University was filled with smiling faces, nervous energy, and the perfect complements to both — glasses of wine, mixed drinks, local craft beer and passed kabobs — as the 2019 Atlanta Startup Awards were getting ready to begin. Once
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Fanaticus XR co-founder Ernesto Escobar didn’t know he would be in the business of extended reality, or “XR,” until one day a few years ago he found himself watching a game made famous by Harry Potter books played in front of him, by actual people. “I was reading an
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Anyone that travels frequently by air knows that many American airports are currently undergoing renovation, expansion and other construction projects. Because airports are business enterprises with various operations going on at once, these construction projects can become major hindrances. This is where Citiri co-founder and CEO Ortez Gude saw an
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Forecasting has always been weird science at best, and risky business at worst, even though predicting future trends based on historical data seems like the smart thing for a company to do. This is especially true when it comes to inventory management — the closer a business can get to calculating
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Atlanta tech entrepreneur Jewel Burks Solomon has been named head of Google for Startups for the U.S., Hypepotamus has confirmed. Solomon is not only the first African-American woman to have this title — a highly significant matter in itself — but she is also the first person to ever hold the
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Across industries, training videos are known to be the opposite of fun. In most cases, they even struggle to be interesting, which surely isn’t great for their intended purpose. Still, these training videos — essential to employee orientation and famous for being dreadful — are necessary, and usually mandatory for anyone