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Love is in the air for the Atlanta startup scene right now. Last week, Hypepotamus shared the story of Whirl, a Techstars Atlanta-backed app that brings a modern twist to the art of matchmaking. Now, a new type of app is launching to help daters move beyond the photo-centric realities
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Hypepotamus first caught up with Nashville-based LASSO all the way back in 2015 as the startup was building a streamlined events management platform. Since then the team – and the events space as a whole – has transformed. Live events first were dealt a blow from COVID. Now, the industry is trying
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Every second counts for the clients of the Tampa startup SOMA Global. But law enforcement, EMS, fire, dispatch, social service, and correctional organizations face a unique set of challenges when it comes to embracing technology, says Mike Mattson, Chief Growth Officer at SOMA Global. “The public safety industry is riddled
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Brea Fullerton jokes that she’s been playing Monopoly within the walls of Saltbox. She originally moved her small business, a consumer brand company called Shinery, into a 120 square foot space inside of the hybrid warehouse and office environment first piloted in Atlanta’s Westside in 2021. But soon
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From its home in Music City, Spiny wants to give the publishing space a modern makeover. The startup’s founding team – Nana B. Nyantekyi, Shannon Terry, and Andrew Johnson – include titans in the digital publishing world, having been part of building up comicbook.com, the online college football network Rivals,
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In 2020, the Hypepotamus team wrote that it would be a good idea to keep an eye on Sevetri Wilson, a New Orleans tech entrepreneur and founder of nonprofit business intelligence platform Resilia. All eyes are certainly on Wilson this week as she makes history. Resilia’s new $35 million
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It’s all As for Allstacks this week. The North Carolina-based SaaS startup just closed its $12.3 million Series A, a funding round backed by big names like enterprise software giant Atlassian. The Series A was led by Boston-based Companyon Ventures, with additional participation from Atlassian Ventures, CreativeCo, Hyperplane
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Ubiquitous is a match-making service for the influencer age. The Atlanta-based startup describes itself as a Hinge-like platform connecting businesses and TikTok influencers. That is important because the traditional branded content “match-making” process is cumbersome and manual for brands looking to tap digital content creators for their marketing efforts, according
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The Asheville, North Carolina-based team behind Netmaker wants to change the nature of networking. Now, this isn’t about improving your small talk abilities. Netmaker is tackling the realities of internet networking, or how devices connect to one another even when they are in different physical locations. The team describes
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There’s a long-standing internal debate inside Fullstory, an Atlanta-based startup that hit unicorn status in 2021. Specifically, Fullstory team members go back and forth about how they pronounce the name of the audience participation platform BWAMP, according to Chief People Officer Gabrielle Sirner-Cohen. “Is it pronounced bwaaaahmp (like swamp)
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Greenzie looks as though it was built for a moment like this. The Atlanta-based software startup works to automate the commercial lawn mowers you see at golf courses, parks, sporting venues, and similar grass-intensive spaces. Since 2018 the team has been building solutions for landscapers, manufacturers, and those in ground
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Atlanta-based Supercopy has big plans to change the way brands market themselves online. Its AI platform is designed to help companies communicate effectively online. Using qualitative and quantitative metrics, Supercopy writes blog and social content, email campaigns, and various new marketing initiatives. It also helps users hone in on specific