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The first thing you’ll notice when walking around Verte’s 750,000 square foot warehouse is what is missing: the noise. For a busy facility that employs over 300 people and can move upwards of 45,000 boxes a day, the e-commerce and supply chain facility is not loud
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33 electric buses have been taking UGA students across campus over the last year as part of an effort to make commuting a “little greener.” Now a university-wide initiative looks to make UGA a top player in the booming statewide e-mobility movement. Georgia has become a hub for electric mobility
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When we last caught up with investor Mike Dowdle at the end of 2020, he was ready to fix the regional funding gap in the early-stage startup space. He’s officially oversubscribed his $15 million fund at Circadian Ventures, and he is optimistic by the deal flow he is seeing
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Atlanta Startup Village will have two new faces holding the mic when the bi-monthly pitch competition returns in late February. Christian Ross is a startup founder herself and staple within the Atlanta Tech Village community. She’ll be joined by Paraj Mathur, an investor who has a passion for esports
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As Buy now, pay later (BNPL) options catch on in e-commerce, Atlanta-based Verdata is ready to help ensure companies creating those short-term financing options have the data they need to make those transactions work. The team just raised a $3 million seed round from “leaders in fintech, regtech, lending solutions
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It started as a 2008 whitepaper on a peer-to-peer electronic cash system. Now blockchain is behind the rise of entirely new creative industries, the changing financial landscape, and even a new iteration of the internet (web 3.0). Acronyms like NFT, DeFi, and DAOs snuck into the popular lexicon in
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Beyond moving 275,000 passengers a day, Hartfield-Jackson International Airport is home to a new set of TravelTech entrepreneurs. One such founder is Veronica Woodruff, who joined the startup world after working in the airline industry as a flight attendant. She saw first-hand the gap in services available for travelers
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Since Verusen minted its $8 million Series A in January 2021, supply chain stressors have continued to be top of mind for consumers and manufacturers alike. While the Atlanta-based startup got off the ground to streamline operations on the indirect materials and maintenance repair operations side, founder Paul Noble told
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Georgia State grad Robert Hatcher recognized an inherent problem in the music industry while building his previous startup, Soundcollide. The home recording studio startup was designed to help artists work on songs from different locations. “Music is collaborative,” Hatcher told Hypepotamus. “But we saw from our studio that publishing rights
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After a year of searching for the perfect home in Atlanta, Airbnb is officially putting down roots on the Westside. The tech giant announced it will move its Tech Hub into Encore, a Georgia Tech-affiliated office inside the live-work-play space The Interlock. It will initially take up 5,000 of
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The term “carpool” may have once been reserved for commuting to school or soccer practice. But Atlanta-based entrepreneurs Michael Malakhov and Eric Morris are bringing a new "carpool" definition to the logistics industry with startup Carpool Logistics. The two bring a combined 25 years of logistics experience at
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EventTech was a natural fit for Conway Solomon. As a tech enthusiast, he started working at his brother’s New Orleans-based event production company back in high school and the space immediately pulled him in. “I found that the event world had so many variables,” Solomon told Hypepotamus. “Every festival