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With New Integrations & Products, Atlanta's Lavender Is Transforming Email Inboxes For Sales Teams

With New Integrations & Products, Atlanta's Lavender Is Transforming Email Inboxes For Sales Teams

Lavender started as an AI-driven browser extension to help people write better emails. But after meeting with a key group of their early users, co-founders Will Allred and Will Ballance told Hypepotamus they realized their platform could change the entire workflow for sales teams. “Now, it’s about writing better

TECH TALENT: This DigitalCrafts Grad Is Eyeing A New Position In Tech

TECH TALENT: This DigitalCrafts Grad Is Eyeing A New Position In Tech

Jason Wilger joined DigitalCrafts' Full Stack Flex Hybrid program this last August to pivot into a coding career. Learn more about his story and his passion for the tech field through this Q&A! What is your previous education? * My previous education is very minimal. I was originally

New Investment Puts Atlanta-based Calendly's Valuation at Over $3 Billion

New Investment Puts Atlanta-based Calendly's Valuation at Over $3 Billion

Even before employees flocked to productivity tools to streamline remote work, Atlanta-based Calendly wanted to streamline the arduous process of scheduling a meeting. But it’s no surprise that the scheduling software doubled its subscription revenue in 2020. The company, founded in 2013 by Tope Awotona, helped propel Atlanta’s

EXCLUSIVE: Google for Startups Founders Academy Expands Nationwide After Successful Atlanta Launch

EXCLUSIVE: Google for Startups Founders Academy Expands Nationwide After Successful Atlanta Launch

Pivoting the inaugural Founders Academy to a virtual setting didn’t deter Jewel Burks Solomon and the Google for Startups team. Over the course of eight months — in the middle of the pandemic — the Academy worked with over 40 Georgia-based founders to help them get an idea off the ground

Meet The 10 Social Impact Startups Selected For Techstars' Next Cohort

Meet The 10 Social Impact Startups Selected For Techstars' Next Cohort

Atlanta has been at the epicenter of the civil and human rights movement for decades. That made it the perfect place to launch Cox Enterprises Social Impact Accelerator, powered by Techstars. Led by Barry Givens, the program just announced its 2nd cohort. The ten selected startups come from across the

Atlanta-based Startup Acquired By Real Estate Management Giant

Atlanta-based Startup Acquired By Real Estate Management Giant

Techstars Atlanta is celebrating another successful acquisition. CommissionTrac, a cloud-based revenue management platform that streamlines back office admin work for commercial real estate agents, has been acquired by Yardi Systems. Based in Santa Barbara, California, Yardi provides end-to-end property and investment management software to those in the commercial real estate

School's in Session: Applications Are Open for Square One Startup School

School's in Session: Applications Are Open for Square One Startup School

Atlanta-based marketing agency, Surthrive, has opened applications for its Square One Startup School. Square One is the first accelerated-incubator fee-based training program to offer a learning environment for “too-early-stage” tech startup founders. The program is designed to help pre-product and pre-revenue founders validate and transform their startup ideas into profitable