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Cooleaf Specializes in Happy Employees, Celebrates Citi Smarter Worklife Win

Cooleaf Specializes in Happy Employees, Celebrates Citi Smarter Worklife Win

Last September, Cooleaf co-founder John Duisberg said he needed to raise $500,000 to double the size of his startup, which makes a software platform to help companies engage and retain their employees. Eight months later, "we closed that funding," Duisberg told Hypepotamus, which means Cooleaf now has

15 Universities Battled for the ACC InVenture Prize at Georgia Tech

15 Universities Battled for the ACC InVenture Prize at Georgia Tech

Apparently, running into each other on football fields or driving the lane on basketball courts aren't providing enough ways for Atlantic Coast Conference students to claim bragging rights over each other. Now there's the inaugural ACC InVenture Prize, in which Georgia Tech takes its annual collegiate

Big Data Sparks Big Plans for Immersive Program at General Assembly Atlanta

Big Data Sparks Big Plans for Immersive Program at General Assembly Atlanta

If data is currency for the Information Age, then those who can navigate the rising tide of analytics at companies stand ready to cash in on their skills. But first they have to acquire those skills, and that's where General Assembly comes in. "There are so many

Steeles Keep Startup Streak in the Family With New IT Staffing Firm

Steeles Keep Startup Streak in the Family With New IT Staffing Firm

Sometimes it takes just one idea, one product, a single startup experience to transform a reasonably well-adjusted family into a line of risk-taking, capital-seeking serial entrepreneurs. For the Atlanta-based Steeles, that product may well have been the Big Bear/Little Bear Toilet Seat Company, founded by Ricky Steele's

Its Users Are Anonymous, But the Privet Social Network is Now in the Spotlight

Its Users Are Anonymous, But the Privet Social Network is Now in the Spotlight

Startup founders are used to baring their souls in public, usually to describe the passion they have for their fledgling companies while explaining the reasons they decide to risk it all. Then there's Titania Jordan, a co-founder of Privet, a new social network that calls itself "the

High Hopes for Low-Code App Growth Gets OutSystems $55 Million

It's a nice problem to have: Sandy Springs-based OutSystems, a provider of rapid application development tools and services for the enterprise since its 2001 launch, is basking in the glow of 60 percent growth in subscription revenue for 2015. It has 600 customers in 33 countries, and hasn&

Pete Kight on $4.4 Billion Exit and Shaping the FinTech Industry

Pete Kight on $4.4 Billion Exit and Shaping the FinTech Industry

Pete Kight would love to be able to tell you that when he founded his electronic payment company CheckFree in 1981 - long before the arrival of the Internet - he knew he was going to change the way everyone manages their money. It would also be beyond prescient for