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The Southeast’s battery industry is operating on a full charge these days. The most recent sign is the North Carolina-based FlexGen announcement of a $100 million Series C funding round this week from Vitol and a pool of previous investors. FlexGen originally got off the ground working on military
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The fintech landscape has transformed drastically since a group of Birmingham bankers joined forces to open up the startup Quantalytix in 2017. Still, CEO Christopher Aliotta saw a gap in what was available in the lending vertical of fintech. “In our roles as bankers, and specifically as it related to
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Scott Monroe noticed something important was missing when he left the Marine Corps and started his career as a firefighter. “The military does performance management, promotional processes, team building, and organizational structure really well. And I thought it would be similar on the civilian side with public safety. But it
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When Hypepotamus last caught up with Tommy Linstroth and his Savannah-based Green Badger in 2018, they were already alleviating a big problem in the construction world. The pandemic and the growing corporate sustainability movement put the focus on what our built environment looks like even more front and center. Linstroth
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When Hypepotamus first introduced readers to Noelle London back in 2017, she was a recent Atlanta transplant ready to drive innovation through her work at Invest Atlanta. Now in 2022, she’s moved to the other side of the proverbial founder-investor table with the launch of Illoominus. “I've
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The team behind Arcum Partners thinks the merchant services space is missing something pretty critical. “For an industry that has the word ‘services’ in it, there is a huge lack of services,” co-founder Sebastian Builes explained to Hypepotamus. The Atlanta-based team built out an analytics platform to help payment processors
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John Howard has the goods to back up the superlative of being the founder with the ‘most swagger’ in the Metro Atlanta area. He started Slingshot after years as a designer and after building up the creative software development firm Black Airplane. Company swag bags were a necessary part of
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The founder of a new cybersecurity ‘unicorn’ thinks the industry has a bit of a PR problem. “The [cybersecurity] industry has been built on fear, uncertainty, and doubt,” Erkang Zheng told Hypepotamus. “I wanted to change that.” Part of that change has been about rethinking cyber inventory management. And this
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Communication is difficult in any workplace, but the co-founders behind Prokeep recognized that it was a particular problem for those working in construction. Jack Carrere, McKay Johnson, and Mark Kanof noticed this when they started working more with contractors for various home improvement projects. Ultimately, the team saw a need
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The food and beverage cart rolling down the aisle is a welcome treat in the middle of a flight. But what appears as a snack break to most passengers looks like a golden opportunity to David Hailey. Hailey, an accountant and a graduate of both NC State and Duke’s
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Animesh Koratana got his first glimpse of entrepreneurship in elementary school when his father launched a startup in the basement of their Metro Atlanta home. At an early age, Koratana helped out the company with various testing projects, giving him an inside look into how software and product teams think
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Research Triangle Park-based Klearly is positioning itself as your team’s “revenue sidekick.” Its platform helps marketing, sales, and customer success teams better understand where they should focus their energy to drive more revenue. Leveraging AI and historical data, Klearly helps a company dive into how content marketing, email campaigns,