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Cousins Marlon Brown and Kendrick Pullen are on a mission to change how and when we send messages. That’s no small task, given that individuals and companies alike are really more and more on SMS, iMessage, and other app-based messaging services to connect with clients and potential customers. “Send
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NowAccount knew they had a solution to help small businesses better manage invoices and payments. Coming out of the pandemic, the team, including Georgia Tech alumna Lara Hodgson and Spelman alumna — and former State Representative — Stacey Abrams, closed a $9.5 million Series A round to scale. Abrams talked about
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Louisville, Kentucky’s growing tech startup scene has caught the attention of San Francisco-based investment firm TPG. The Rise Fund, TPG’s global impact investing platform, announced it has invested $100 million in Climavision, a weather technology and intelligence platform looking to mitigate the economic risks of climate change and
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As US travel begins to come back in 2021, a Nashville-based tech startup is looking to make tourism more personal. Stroll, a location-based, personalized app, is what CEO John Mark (JM) Eberhardt describes as a local city guide mixed with Instagram. Beyond a map or utility app, Eberhardt told Hypepotamus
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This North Carolina startup says the key to teaching financial literacy to Generation Z is simple: games and incentives. Meet Zogo Finance, a Durham-based fintech startup founded by a Gen Zer himself, recent Duke University grad Bolun Li. Since launching its gamified financial literacy app back in 2019, it has
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Security alarms are key for school safety. But one North Carolina entrepreneur has created a more accurate and robust system to help keep students, teachers, and staff safe on campus. Active Defender is a campus emergency tool and app that provides location-specific alerts for fires, natural disasters, lockdowns, or medical
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Industry 4.0 and the push towards manufacturing automation hinges on optimization. As manufacturing plants become more digital, these facilities need a way to better access, optimize and act on disparate data. From its home base in Raleigh, ndustrial.io just raised a $6 million Series A round to do
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With a new $1.7 million seed round, Maptician is ready to get work...by getting other people safely back to work. As a facilities management SaaS startup, Maptician’s self-service approach allows “true visibility into space usage," President Nick Eurek told Hypepotamus. On the facilities side, Maptician helps
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Startups and corporations alike are rethinking office buildings. Beyond just restructuring spaces for the post-pandemic workforce, many are thinking about the role construction and architecture can play in a more sustainable urban environment. For Miami-based Ecovie Water Management, that means helping buildings become more water resilient. Founded in 2009, the
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Construction and property-focused startups increasingly find themselves at the center of two important trends: Building a more sustainable future and creating a more remote-friendly environment. Not only are people seeking homes that fit remote work standards, the team at North Carolina-based Higharc told Hypepotamus that the need for virtual home
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North Carolina’s Element451 — taking its name from the temperature at which paper burns — has been leading the charge to bring the college admission process into the digital world. The need to streamline how colleges find potential students only grew as traditional campus recruiting was thrown into flux at the
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The team behind AdCritter didn’t initially set out to build a DIY advertising platform for small businesses. CEO and founder Gabriel Smith told Hypepotamus his team initially started looking at how to improve advertising for the continuing education space. “We had to get ads in front of doctors and