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Health probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think about logging onto a social networking site. Atlanta-based fitness tracking app Any Distance wants to change that. The startup announced today the launch of Active Clubs as the latest way to help people get moving at
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“It felt like starting a startup,” said Blake Patton on Tuesday night when he was asked to reflect back on the start of Engage, a corporate venture platform housed at Tech Square Ventures. Patton, alongside Georgia Tech’s President Emeritus Dr. Bud Peterson and Invesco President and CEO Marty Flanagan,
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Canadian social media management platform Hootsuite is moving into Midtown Atlanta’s Tech Square. Opening the office in Atlanta is key for the company looking to hire tech talent and scale in the US. But CEO Tom Keiser has even stronger connections to the city. “Growing up in the southeast
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Two Georgia State alumni have teamed up to tackle the problem every college club president has dealt with: How do you get students to come to meetings once you run out of free pizza? Vishwa Mudigonda and Viraj Patel, who graduated from GSU with BBA and MBA respectively, started KemNu
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Pain management is, well, a big pain for millions of Americans. From their headquarters in Alpharetta, the medical and software engineering team behind FUSMobile is tackling lower back pain through sound waves and high-intensity ultrasound technology. As co-founder Arik Hananel told Hypepotamus, FUSMobile uses “acoustic energy in a focal manner,
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Before becoming an entrepreneur, Delphine Carter said she, like many women, had a nonlinear career path. While she's held roles in sales, operations, client relations, and product management, it was her personal struggle trying to hire project-specific talent that ultimately led to the launch of a new business.
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The pandemic has hit small businesses especially hard. But this UNC-Chapel Hill professor is determined to change that. Enter Brij, a centralized online platform where consumers can support their favorite local shops and restaurants. “Small businesses are extremely critical to the infrastructure of our local communities, and we need to
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When Chike Nwoke was a student at the University of Maryland College Park, he took note of a unique marketing tactic used by energy drink company Redbull. The company would hire students to represent their brand on campus, which would ultimately drive more drink sales. For Nwoke, this showed that
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COVID has expedited many tech trends, but perhaps none as drastically as what we are seeing in the HealthTech industry. As physicians and patients alike look for solutions to connect with healthcare services, Frank Wasti noticed a gap in the marketplace for those uninsured or underinsured. Wasti told Hypepotamus that
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Sentinel 24, a Canadian tech company known for its smart virtual waiting room app, has chosen Georgia as the first entry point into the US. At the helm of the company is founder A.M. Abbassi, a Canadian Mathematician. Abbassi was the 2019 recipient of an Atlanta-based Opportunity HUB (OHUB)
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Lavender started as an AI-driven browser extension to help people write better emails. But after meeting with a key group of their early users, co-founders Will Allred and Will Ballance told Hypepotamus they realized their platform could change the entire workflow for sales teams. “Now, it’s about writing better
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OncoLens, an Atlanta-based digital health IT company, is streamlining cancer care with its innovative treatment planning platform. The platform enables data integration and collaboration among specialists, thereby reducing overall costs and shortening timelines for treatment planning. “Unlike many other healthcare applications whose core users are either administrative or single-specialty like