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Carly Simenauer started her entrepreneurial journey to take on one of the most universal of truths: Feminine hygiene dispensers in public restrooms are just plain awful. “Most dispensers are dilapidated, rusted, or abandoned...they're not stocked or they don’t work. Most of them are absolute garbage,” Simenauer
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Atlanta is no stranger to new construction projects. Now, it’s home to a startup looking to “crunch” the numbers and legal jargon behind those projects. Originally headquartered in South Florida, DocumentCrunch’s founding team is composed of construction lawyers who have seen firsthand the pain points embedded in commercial
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This Atlanta-based software startup is helping building contractors move away from spreadsheets and whiteboards to track their equipment. YARDZ is the brainchild of Jason Perez and Josh Schuyler, former construction managers. They launched the startup in 2018 after witnessing first-hand the inefficiencies in managing rented equipment from multiple suppliers. “Things
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Hungry consumers in most major cities have an embarrassment of riches when it comes to online food ordering and delivery platforms. DoorDash, Uber Eats, ChowNow, Toast, Postmates, Zifty, and countless other companies have sprung up to streamline how customers get food. But on the restaurant side, this has created what
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Travel-focused startups across the world had to navigate uncertain waters over the course of the pandemic. As international borders slowly re-open, we caught up with one Atlanta-based FinTech team dedicated to streamlining payments for cruise ship workers. Despite pandemic-related slowdowns, Brightwell just announced a new partnership with Viking Maritime Group
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SecurEnds, a cloud-based Identity Governance startup, is the latest Atlanta company to secure funding from an enterprise software-focused venture capital firm. Following the funding news, CEO Tippu Gagguturu told Hypepotamus about the history of the company, where the cybersecurity community in Atlanta is heading next, and how the startup plans
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Despite being both a media and FinTech powerhouse, Atlanta has yet to become a hub for film financing. But one startup founding team — bringing together backgrounds in financial services, media, film funding, and venture capital — is ready to change that narrative. FilmHedge was born after Jon Gosier, an entrepreneur and
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Ransomware, malware, denial of service attacks are just some of the constant threats plaguing today's cloud infrastructures. But this North Carolina B2B software startup says it’s putting an end to that. Arpio, headquartered in Durham, has created a SaaS platform that it says protects and eliminates “catastrophic
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A month after President Biden signed an executive order effectively mandating companies to disclose their climate risk, one Durham-based cleantech startup is poised to lead the charge. “[We’ ve] been scaling to prepare for this very moment,” says The Climate Service (TCS) co-founder James McMahon. “Our mission is to embed
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A spin-off startup from Ally Commerce, Green Feather, is finding a niche in the healthcare payments space. Atlanta-based Ally Commerce launched in 2007 as an end-to-end eCommerce technology provider for consumer durables companies. Green Feather got off the ground as the team saw a “demand from healthcare companies trying to
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Coming off of a $76 million Series A funding round, Irish FinTech startup Wayflyer has its eyes on Atlanta. With a focus on providing flexible financing options for growing eCommerce brands, CEO Aidan Corbett told Hypepotamus that 75% of the company’s clients are in the US. Wayflyer already has
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Two North Carolina entrepreneurs are measuring success by the second. Ben Hardison and Camden Conekin, co-founders of Padeo, are working to improve website loading times for various websites through predictive analytics and pre-loading technology. When it comes to loading times, seconds matter. Even a few-second delay drastically increases the chances