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Like any good early-stage founder, Ben McFarlin visited his potential customers directly when he wanted to test out a new business venture and FinTech idea. His customers just happened to be pumping gas. Long before the pandemic, McFarlin was looking to innovate the driver’s experience at the pump, and
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Three Shipt alumni are rethinking the way we network. Linq, a networking tech startup hailing from Birmingham, just closed a $2.5 million seed round to grow its QR and “near field communication” (NFC) platform. The round was led by Mucker Capital with participation from Alabama Futures Fund and Shipt
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Atlanta-based Goodr knew changing the food supply chain ecosystem and rethinking hunger was essential before the pandemic. Then videos of hours-long lines for food assistance became some of the more shocking visuals in the early part of 2020. “With the pandemic, people started to see that hunger needed to be
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Karen Houghton is stepping away from her role as Atlanta Tech Village's Vice President to become a new village resident and startup founder. She’s launching Infinite Giving, a FinTech platform for nonprofit management. For Houghton, Infinite Giving is about helping nonprofits overcome the “scarcity mindset” and financial
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When Alto closed its $2.8 million seed round in early 2019, the team was on a mission to make alternative investment opportunities accessible to more people. Since then, they’ve gained the attention of traditional investing companies and new investing platforms alike. The Nashville-based team raised a $17 million
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Sport AI sees the pandemic as a catalyst for growing fantasy sports. The startup is moving to Birmingham to fuel the technology and ‘democratization' of the space. Noah Kim, CEO and co-founder, played football at The College of William & Mary and worked in the mobile product management space
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Even for founders building life-saving consumer goods, COVID took its toll. Felicia Jackson, the founder of Tennessee-based CPR Wrap, had to make the difficult decision to downsize her already small team during the pandemic. But she remained focused on getting her single-use CPR tool out to more people. “At the
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Well before COVID, a study conducted by MBO Partners suggested that nearly 5 million Americans called themselves Digital Nomads — independent workers traveling (often abroad) while working full or part-time for a company back in the States. The work from home/work from anywhere realities of our post-pandemic world have made
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It all started with a search for the perfect Mai Tai. Andrew Rodbell said he and his friend Charles Sain were at a Yacht Rock Review concert and were disappointed by the cocktail selection at the music venue. That got Rodbell thinking: “Could we make an authentic cocktail, I mean,
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On average, grocery stores have more than 2,000 bottles of wine. Having so many choices can cause some consumers to be overwhelmed. As a result, 71% of people base their wine purchases on price or the design on the label, as Gary Campbell, founder, and CEO of WineView App,
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From their Atlanta Tech Village office, entrepreneurs Ifrah Khan and Connor Ford are rethinking virtual learning. Clubba, the live virtual after-school club for kids, brings small groups of kids together with creative college students to teach new skills in a social and fun way. Classes, or ‘clubs’, range from video
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Last September, Hypepotamus spoke with Vedant Pradeep and Ziyi Gao, the two Georgia Tech graduates building Digital Sponsor. Since then, they have not only raised its first seed round, they also started to reframe the conversation around alcohol recovery programs. Under the new name Reframe, Pradeep told Hypepotamus that “all