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Incentive Solutions' CEO Talks About The Changing Channel Marketing Space

Incentive Solutions' CEO Talks About The Changing Channel Marketing Space

Founded in 1994, Atlanta-based Incentive Solutions has evolved with the shifting marketing and advertising landscape. As a leader in the incentive industry, the company focuses on software to build group travel, online rewards, and gift card programs. For CEO Mark Hebert, building up channel marketing programs is the “all-encompassing task

Black Founder-Focused Collab Capital Closes First $50 Million Fund With Impressive List of LPs

Black Founder-Focused Collab Capital Closes First $50 Million Fund With Impressive List of LPs

In just over a year, Atlanta-based Collab Capital closed its $50 million inaugural fund. Collab’s founding team is Jewel Burks Solomon, Justin Dawkins, and Barry Givens. Dawkins and Givens sat down with Hypepotamus last summer to discuss the fund’s investing thesis, fostering Black innovation, and building generational wealth.

What's Next for Georgia's PPE suppliers?

What's Next for Georgia's PPE suppliers?

We’ve come a long way from the time of makeshift masks and watered-down hand sanitizer that plagued the spring of 2020. And while vaccine rollouts have brought new hope for the end of the pandemic, manufacturers across the state of Georgia are continuing to fill in a critical personal

Georgia Tech Ph.D's Eye Healthcare Innovation With Insight Optics

Georgia Tech Ph.D's Eye Healthcare Innovation With Insight Optics

Atlanta students have once again shown their entrepreneurial prowess on the global stage. Insight Optics, an Atlanta-based and Georgia Tech-founded HealthTech platform assisting primary care providers with retinal screenings, took third in this month’s TiE University Global Pitch Competition. The virtual competition is one part of TiE's

New MediaTech Platform LoCo+ Looks To Capture Atlanta's Movie & Music Magic

New MediaTech Platform LoCo+ Looks To Capture Atlanta's Movie & Music Magic

One emerging media platform has big plans to build the future of streaming right from Atlanta. LoCo+, a city-based streaming network officially launching in the summer of 2021, is looking to bring premium, locally-produced content to digital media fans. Its founding team has deep roots in media, entrepreneurship, and technology.

Atlanta-based Foreground Looks To Be Go-To Place For Photography

Atlanta-based Foreground Looks To Be Go-To Place For Photography

When the pandemic halted in-person gatherings, Stephen Marshall saw firsthand how photographers got creative. “[Photographers] had to pivot and do a lot of different types of shoots. Someone who was a wedding photographer now pivoted to doing family shoots,” Marshall told Hypepotamus. Family preserved moments through porch photo shoots and

Expedited Airport TSA Lines Coming Soon, Thanks To Atlanta Security Startup

Expedited Airport TSA Lines Coming Soon, Thanks To Atlanta Security Startup

Taking off your shoes to go through airport security may soon be a thing of the past. Atlanta’s Liberty Defense, with funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and technology from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), is commercializing two new checkpoint screening technologies, the Shoe Scanner and