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The fact that FinTech helped propel Atlanta onto the national startup stage has been a bit of a paradox to those studying sustainable finance. That’s because Atlanta is consistently ranked as the US city with the highest income inequality ratio and one of the places with the highest percentage
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The team behind Atlanta-based Givsly sees giving back as a solid business decision. And their platform wants to make that process even easier by being a “Calendly link for donations.” That’s how CEO Chad Hickey described Givsly to Hypepotamus. The goal is to drive business connections, increase pipeline and
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A recent real estate purchase in the Forest Park neighborhood in Birmingham will soon be "home base" for the newest crop of startup founders building in the city. Some of the recent graduates of Techstars Alabama EnergyTech accelerator program have pulled together to purchase what they are calling
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Alpharetta-based Hello Donor is out to change the face of fundraising. The concept and technology behind its Changemaker Initiative, the digital change round-up, is familiar to most consumers. The idea of rounding up a transaction and donating the extra cents is common at point-of-sales retail settings and grocery stores. But
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When Hypepotamus chatted with Jack Griffin in 2017, the University of Michigan student was building FoodFinder, a geo-location website and database of food banks, to help tackle food insecurity. The problem was big then. But the pandemic only heightened the need for food assistance programs and food pantries across the
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High home prices and low housing inventory has stopped many Americans from buying a home over the last year. That has been particularly true across the Southeast, as a recent Zillow ranking found seven out of the ten “hottest” housing markets are in the region right now. But increasing real
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Upwards of 38 million American workers joined “The Great Resignation” in 2021, and surveys suggest that number might only grow in 2022. What’s driving the numbers? Some fled burnout and toxic work settings. Many others were lured away by higher wages and a hot “employee market." Some people,
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Our call with founders Edward Carroll and Jeremiah Smith started with the small talk you might expect from those in the startup space: there just aren’t enough hours in the day. But while chatting about their new venture, Asheville, North Carolina-based Edison Marks, I’m fairly convinced they have
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Flock Safety, the Atlanta-based tech company focused on public safety and crime prevention, has caught the attention of one of the world’s largest VC firms. Tiger Global led Flock Safety’s recent $150 million Series E funding rounding, joined by 776 and Spark Capital. Existing investors a16z, Bedrock, Matrix,
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Three Duke classmates have joined forces to bring more capital into the Southeast startup scene. Greggory Bordes, Joe Mancini, and Nikin Shah, all graduates of The Fuqua School of Business, started North Carolina-based Front Porch Venture Partners after working across the country at various investing organizations, startups, and larger corporations.
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Led by a team of 11 students from campuses across the city, the University Growth Fund is looking to change the face of investing in Atlanta. The fund, which started on the West Coast and has offices in San Diego and Salt Lake City, chose to expand to Atlanta in
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As Ethereum and other blockchain protocols started taking off several years back, Michael O’Rourke recognized a fundamental flaw associated with those building in the relatively new space. While more people were building on top of the blockchain, they relied on a single service provider. “We got the sense that