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Louisville-based Climavision Lands $100M From World’s Largest Global impact Platform

Louisville-based Climavision Lands $100M From World’s Largest Global impact Platform

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

These Louisiana Startups Just Raised A Combined $9.5 Million

These Louisiana Startups Just Raised A Combined $9.5 Million

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

Nashville-based Stroll Wants To Be Your Personal Tour Guide

Nashville-based Stroll Wants To Be Your Personal Tour Guide

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

This Technology Is Bringing Safari & Other Adventures to the Atlanta BeltLine

This Technology Is Bringing Safari & Other Adventures to the Atlanta BeltLine

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

NC State Grads Help Turn Gas Guzzlers Into Hybrid Cars

NC State Grads Help Turn Gas Guzzlers Into Hybrid Cars

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

Two North Carolina Startups Team Up To Improve How Companies Handle Unstructured Data

Two North Carolina Startups Team Up To Improve How Companies Handle Unstructured Data

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,