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Press Sports, the Atlanta-based social media platform for young athletes, has been acquired by The DONUT. The acquisition is all about creating a new type of media company to engage Gen Z and Millennial audiences online. The DONUT, based out of Austin, is an unbiased newsletter platform that is described
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School is back in session and summer vacation season is behind us. Here in the middle of August, these are the startups that made headlines recently: The Story QGenda, the Atlanta-based healthcare workforce management solutions platform, was acquired by Hearst. Financial details of the deal were not released, by the
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In the early days of ChatGPT, AI seemed like an unstoppable force, with tech moguls like Elon Musk warning that the technology would advance faster than humans could control. However, early AI adopters, brothers Nate and Tyler Johnson, alongside C. Eliott Johnston, imagined that AI could be used for good.
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Georgia-based founders Maya Watson and Lexi Nisita want to get people talking again. To make that happen in our scroll-heavy world, the two former executives at Netflix and Clubhouse are building why?!, a new social networking and conversation app. Unlike other popular social networking platforms that focus on creating content
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Atlanta-based PrizePicks, the popular daily fantasy sports operator, has a new CEO. Adam Wexler, the multi-time tech founder who started PrizePicks, is handing the reins over to Mike Ybarra. The leadership change is effective immediately, according to a pres release Monday. Ybarra brings decades of experience in the gaming industry
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The business-to-consumer (B2C) space is crowded and can be complicated for entrepreneurs to navigate. Consumer preferences and mentalities can change quickly, so entrepreneurs have to find new and engaging ways to get in front of people. To get a sense of how Southeast B2C leaders navigate the space, we reached
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The “Uber for runners” app is coming to Atlanta. Running Mate is an on-demand running app that matches verified runners. The app got off the ground when Founder and CEO Dena Lewis wanted to take a more proactive approach to keeping runners like herself safe. After successfully launching in Austin,
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Before even starting college, Joseph Metzler Concepcion had a business idea and knew he wanted to be an entrepreneur. He’d spent his middle and high school years tinkering with different electrical projects, putting together everything from racing drones to electric bikes. But he kept running into a big problem:
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Lindsay deOliveira's entrepreneurial journey started with a drawing she did in Microsoft Paint. An optician by training, deOliveira was at home with her newborn daughter in 2021 and 2022 when she experienced something that most new parents will understand: It was next to impossible to find a pacifier
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Over half of the Americans are part of the hourly workforce. And yet the big job board players aren't designed with them — or their employers — in mind. Most job boards, like LinkedIn and Indeed, focus on salaried positions and aren't suitable for high turnover positions. That
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Startup founder Don Templeman wants to make polarization in journalism a thing of the past. That certainly seems like a lofty goal in 2024. Today, big media outlets and social media platforms build their audiences by reinforcing specific viewpoints. The reality is that the focus is on click rates and
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When we first met Gbenga Adeyemi in the early part of 2023, he was focused on eliminating stress around parking at the airport with his valet startup Varkn. He’s now back in the founder seat with his next startup…and this time he’s focused on eliminating stress for