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INFLCR Makes Sure Influencers — From College Athletes to Political Supporters — Actually Have Good Content

“The eyeballs of people are continuously migrating from the television and traditional media to the phone and social media to consume their content,” shares entrepreneur Jim Cavale. “So these eyes are migrating to the social media accounts of individual people, but they’re not content producers.” “I wanted to create

Citibot Lets Your Local Government Respond to Texts With A Smart Chatbot

Citibot Lets Your Local Government Respond to Texts With A Smart Chatbot

Entrepreneur Bratton Riley is political royalty in his hometown of Charleston — he is the son of Joseph P. Riley Jr., the former mayor of the city of Charleston for 40 years, making Joseph one of the longest-serving mayors in the country. "When I was kid, I literally grew up

DisasterMed Wants to Track and Manage Health For Disaster Shelter Evacuees

DisasterMed Wants to Track and Manage Health For Disaster Shelter Evacuees

After hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in 2009 and evacuees were dispersed across the country, a cluster of 30 MRSA infections were reported in a shelter in Dallas, Texas, according to the CDC. This challenge of disease outbreak following disaster scenarios was the subject of the Southeast Startup Challenge held

Marketing Teams Have Too Much Data, So Eletype Sends You What You Need to Know — Over Slack

Marketing Teams Have Too Much Data, So Eletype Sends You What You Need to Know — Over Slack

At Michael Sengbusch’s former startup, he created tools to help healthcare marketers do a better job advertising their services and providers. But, though the product was solid, the CTO constantly found himself frustrated. The marketing teams that were using their product would log into their dashboards, see what had

HelixAI

Atlanta Husband-Wife Founder Team Take Their Voice Assistant for Labs to Amazon Alexa Accelerator

Atlanta startup HelixAI, a voice-powered digital assistant for scientific labs, has joined the prestigious Techstars Alexa Accelerator sponsored by Amazon. The three-month, Seattle-based program, now in its second year, allows startups access to Amazon employees and resources, along with traditional Techstars benefits such as seed funding and mentorship. The Alexa

For $20, GeneCapture Detects Infections On Day Zero In Under an Hour

For $20, GeneCapture Detects Infections On Day Zero In Under an Hour

When Dr. Krishna Chittur's young daughter was born premature, the doctor spotted some concerning cloudiness on a lung x-ray. The doctor suggested a dose of antibiotics for suspected pneumonia, followed by blood work to identify the infection. Chittur and his wife were concerned about what the antibiotics could

Narrative

This Social Network Pays Its Users to Create, Curate, and Monitor Their Own Content

The debate over how to monitor and police a social media platform has reached new heights in the past few months — how much do users of Facebook, Twitter and the rest actually get to dictate what they see in their feeds? How much power should be given to these companies