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Laura Jorgensen said she would never forget when she heard Runner’s World, a popular fitness magazine, was opening up its own subscription box service for athletes. Jorgensen had refined the business model and idea for The RunnerBox, and its cycling equivalent The RiderBox, over the years as a finance
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Luke Beard recognized fundamental flaws with activity tracking apps when he took up running during the pandemic. As a designer and self-proclaimed “chronic oversharer” on Twitter, he wanted to post his workouts and progress online. While that is common in the running, biking, and fitness world, Beard had two big
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For startup GeoCloud, it is truly all about location, location, location. The Atlanta-based venture is creating new location-based experiences and making it possible for more people to find their community wherever they are in the world. It isn’t just about getting someone from Point A to Point B. From
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News platform UrbanGeekz is making headlines of its own this week with the launch of a new pre-accelerator program. The Atlanta-based outlet, which covers multicultural news around technology, science, businesses, and entrepreneurship, launched Geekz Ventures as a way to help tech-focused startups with underestimated founders get off the ground. While
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James Oliver, Jr. is ready to make a ‘buzz’ in the startup world by playing matchmaker. Kabila, which Oliver describes as “Bumble for co-founders,” is about helping entrepreneurs find their perfect co-founder match for a budding idea. “The main thing is to bring people together to get the conversation started
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The courts may be small, but its influence is growing. With upwards of 5 million players in the US, pickleball is the country’s fastest-growing sport. Players are from all ages and walks of life, drawn to the game for its fast-paced, social nature. A group of Atlanta-based entrepreneurs is
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Telling the story of the local Memphis community came naturally to Kontji Anthony as she’d spent the last 17 years building up her career at the anchor desk at the NBC affiliate WMC-TV. Now, Anthony is writing her own story in the city with the launch of Youdle, a
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From dating apps to LinkedIn intros to Instagram DMs, a good chunk of our in-person interactions today start in the digital world. Brad Loflin and Roy Odima saw an opportunity to better facilitate digital introductions…and along the way created a new way to think about financial technology. Loflin and
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Growing up in a designated food desert inspired Mark Peterson to focus on logistics needed to help underserved shoppers manage healthy and affordable meals for their families. He launched Ziscuit to do just that. Peterson describes Ziscuit as a “grocery shopping platform and reverse auction marketplace.” Consumers post their lists
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Early in the pandemic, Paul Owusu was one of many people who leaned into at-home cocktail making. But he turned that passion into a full-blown business…and it is making quite the splash in the canned cocktail world. Owusu recently moved to Atlanta to be closer to his co-founders and
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Well before Capital on Tap opened its office in Midtown Atlanta, the London-based fintech startup already had deep roots in the city. Co-founder and CEO David Luck is an Emory graduate. COO Damian Brychcy grew up in Metro Atlanta and holds degrees from both Georgia Tech and the University of
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People may open a wine bottle to celebrate a work win. But for co-founders and recent Tulane University graduates Franziska Trautmann and Max Steitz, a shared bottle of wine sparked an entirely new business concept, aptly named Glass Half Full. The two were frustrated that the bottle of wine they