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As business shifts over the course of 2021, we are dedicated to hearing from tech leaders about what trends they are seeing in their industry. John McNeel, Co-Founder, CEO & Chairman of in/PACT, provided his insight on the emerging PurposeTech space and what it looks like in our post-pandemic
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Even before starting his latest venture, K4Connect, Scott Moody had logged an impressive entrepreneurial journey across the Southeast. He took AuthenTec, a Florida-based tech security startup, public in 2007 before it was acquired by Apple. The more than 230 patents to AuthenTec’s name became the basis for Apple’s
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As a startup founder and previous due diligence analyst, Graham Gintz has experienced fundraising pain points from both sides of the table. “Most of the time, it's because people start pitching investors too early. Maybe they don't have the right narrative or they don't
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"As the economy reopens in the wake of the COVID pandemic, employers face a new challenge: Finding enough people to hire," says Adam Robinson, CEO of Hireology. The NFIB reports that 46 percent of small business owners have job openings they cannot fill even while raising pay. Against
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An international clean energy company is looking a little closer to home these days as it tries to change the narrative around renewable energy sources. Charleston, South Carolina-based Palmetto had an early focus on financing energy projects — be it through equity, debt, or various environmental offset programs — in the developing
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SecurEnds, a cloud-based Identity Governance startup, is the latest Atlanta company to secure funding from an enterprise software-focused venture capital firm. Following the funding news, CEO Tippu Gagguturu told Hypepotamus about the history of the company, where the cybersecurity community in Atlanta is heading next, and how the startup plans
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This Raleigh startup on a mission to end asthma attacks and chronic lung disease is pushing ahead after landing $2.14 million. VitalFlo, a startup that has developed a lung analytics platform, secured seed funding from the Texas-based Geekdom Fund after growing “17 times over the last 12 months.” Elevate
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For Atlanta-based Ubuntoo, the increased focus on sustainability from consumers and companies alike has helped its marketplace grow over the past few years. As Chief Marketing Officer Yuri Pereira explains, “sustainability and profitability used to not necessarily be aligned...but not anymore. That’s bringing a surge in terms of
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The large funding round headlines keep coming in for the Atlanta tech scene. On the heels of its November 2020 $45 million Series C raise, Flock Safety just closed a $150 million Series D round to help scale. “Simply put, we are growing incredibly fast and the demand is increasing,
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Entrepreneurs working in the circular economy see both the financial and environmental advantages of rethinking e-waste. Atlanta entrepreneur Stephen Wakeling has watched the space transform over the last decade while building Phobio, a SaaS platform designed to facilitate electronic device trade-ins. “The useful life of a phone is being elongated,
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A startup founder must know they’re on to something when the name of their company becomes a verb. That’s exactly what founder and CEO Cherie Kloss hears from nurses and medical workers using SnapNurse to find short-term positions or travel nursing contracts. “We’re seeing people post ‘I
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This Nashville healthcare data startup is getting ready to scale after landing $75 million in funds. XSOLIS (pronounced similarly to “excellence’) this week confirmed it secured a “minority growth” investment from Brighton Park Capital, a Connecticut-based firm specializing in growth-stage healthtech firms. "This investment will be a catalyst as