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College Student-Designed App Lets You Create Safe Zones So You're Never Alone

College Student-Designed App Lets You Create Safe Zones So You're Never Alone

Nina Barnett , a rising senior at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, thought hard about her personal safety after moving to the campus. From late-night cramming sessions at the library to leaving parties, Barnett wanted to alert her friends and family that she had gotten home safe. "I realized

Self-Service Hospitality Platform QikServe Opens North America HQ In Atlanta

Self-Service Hospitality Platform QikServe Opens North America HQ In Atlanta

Digital hospitality self-service platform QikServe has announced the opening of their North American headquarters in Atlanta. Based in the United Kingdom, the company provides in-store self-service solutions for the whole customer experience, from ordering to payment, for hospitality operators like restaurants and hotels. "While we are primarily focused on

Tech Talent: This Mathematician Is Adding Up Success In Tech

Nathan Cooper's background reflects his claim as an inherent problem solver. His passion for mathematics stems from always being attracted to puzzles and the "why" behind processes. "It helped that I always had a knack for math and numbers while growing up. I also had

Space Tango

This Startup Sends Tiny Experiment Labs Into Space

Depending on what report you cite, commercial space is rocketing into a $200 to $400 billion market. Beyond space tourism, much of that is due to the wide variety of research — anything from agricultural, medical/pharmaceutical, electrical and more — that companies are itching to conduct in the cosmos. Space industry

A3C Music Tech

Hip Hop Conference A3C Is Bringing Back Its Music Tech Track and Seeking Startups to Spotlight

A3C Conference, the hip hop-focused event that brings together leaders in music, entrepreneurship, technology and social action, has announced a Future of Music Tech program to be held on October 5. The highlight of the day will be its second Startup Spotlight Showcase, for which applications open today. Last year,

This Startup Identified An Undertapped Equipment Rental Market Worth $50B

This Startup Identified An Undertapped Equipment Rental Market Worth $50B

Finding affordable equipment rental options for work in the environmental testing, farming, surveying, laboratory and medical industry can be difficult, if not impossible. Robert Preville came upon the gap in this $50 billion rental market while at his second business, a distributor of electronic and testing measuring equipment. Most equipment

New Report Shows Funding For Black Women Founders Increased By 500 Percent in 2017, But Still Lags

New Report Shows Funding For Black Women Founders Increased By 500 Percent in 2017, But Still Lags

A report, released today, by an Atlanta-based startup incubator focused on Black and Latinx female entrepreneurs found that, while black women founders are still funded at disproportionally low amounts, funding has increased substantially in the past year. The research also showed that the number of black female founders who have