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Startup Managr Looks To Grow Atlanta's Thriving SalesTech Ecosystem

Startup Managr Looks To Grow Atlanta's Thriving SalesTech Ecosystem

Atlanta started 2021 off with Calendly and Salesloft crossing the $1 billion valuation mark, putting the focus on the city’s impressive productivity and ‘SalesTech’ space. Michael Gorodisher has watched the sales landscape change over the course of his career as new software and techstack options sprung up to help

Focus on Mobility, Accessibility Helps Launch Atlanta-based DashStylists

Focus on Mobility, Accessibility Helps Launch Atlanta-based DashStylists

The “Beauty Tech” industry boomed during pandemic lockdowns, and it isn’t showing signs of slowing down anytime soon. The beauty device market alone is expected to reach $107.2 billion by 2024, especially as at-home styling trends continue to grow in 2021. While Atlanta-based DashStylists is bringing a tech-enabled

For Flock Safety Director, A Strong Employer Brand Is Key To Recruiting Top Talent In Remote-First World

Long before catching the eye of Andreessen Horowitz investors or deploying its technology nationally, Flock Safety’s founding team was thinking about company culture. That piqued the interest of veteran recruiter and Emory graduate Aynn Collins, who first met Flock’s young team over three years ago when she was

For Atlanta-based Variant, Driver-Centric Innovation Is Key To Changing Trucking Industry

For Atlanta-based Variant, Driver-Centric Innovation Is Key To Changing Trucking Industry

Cameron Ramsdell built his career around the shipping and logistics industry. But he wasn’t initially sold on trucking. While US Census data shows there are 711,000 different trucking companies employing over 3.5 million people, Ramsdell told Hypepotamus that the industry remained fragmented and largely adverse to technology

SuperFan Acquisition Is A Big Win For Southeast Women Investors & Entrepreneurs

SuperFan Acquisition Is A Big Win For Southeast Women Investors & Entrepreneurs

The JumpFund ‘hit it out of the park,’ you might say, with its first-ever investment. The Chattanooga-based early-stage angel fund invested in the women-led, Louisville-based mobile fan engagement platform SuperFan back in 2014. Since then The JumpFund’s Kristina Montague told Hypepotamus the fund watched SuperFan’s team grow their

Industry Leaders Talk Supply Chain Realities Heading Into Q4 2021

Industry Leaders Talk Supply Chain Realities Heading Into Q4 2021

First, it was COVID. Then trade tensions. Then winter storms and international power outages. Then ships stuck in canals and an unprecedented labor shortage. All news became supply chain news in 2021, as the global economy looked to rebound and rebalance in the wake of the pandemic. “At the beginning

The Southeast Now Has Over 300 Venture Capital Firms

The Southeast Now Has Over 300 Venture Capital Firms

The Southeast region is now home to over 300 individual venture capital firms, according to data collected by Embarc Collective and Build In SE’s Southeast Capital Landscape Report, a directory of active investors in the region. That number — 309 at the time of this publication — is up more than