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Atlanta students have once again shown their entrepreneurial prowess on the global stage. Insight Optics, an Atlanta-based and Georgia Tech-founded HealthTech platform assisting primary care providers with retinal screenings, took third in this month’s TiE University Global Pitch Competition. The virtual competition is one part of TiE's
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One emerging media platform has big plans to build the future of streaming right from Atlanta. LoCo+, a city-based streaming network officially launching in the summer of 2021, is looking to bring premium, locally-produced content to digital media fans. Its founding team has deep roots in media, entrepreneurship, and technology.
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After seven years of work with Georgia Tech, drummer Jason Barnes has an advanced robotic prosthetic to take his musical talents to the next level. Barnes lost his lower right arm during an electrical accident in 2012. While studying at the Atlanta Institute of Music and Media, he was looking
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When the pandemic halted in-person gatherings, Stephen Marshall saw firsthand how photographers got creative. “[Photographers] had to pivot and do a lot of different types of shoots. Someone who was a wedding photographer now pivoted to doing family shoots,” Marshall told Hypepotamus. Family preserved moments through porch photo shoots and
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Logistics and analytics startup FreightWaves is ready to make sustainability an integral part of the transportation industry. “Shippers already think about cost, transit times, and service levels when they're designing their supply chains. We want to make carbon the fourth variable,” Craig Fuller, Chief Executive Officer & Founder
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Security alarms are key for school safety. But one North Carolina entrepreneur has created a more accurate and robust system to help keep students, teachers, and staff safe on campus. Active Defender is a campus emergency tool and app that provides location-specific alerts for fires, natural disasters, lockdowns, or medical
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Taking off your shoes to go through airport security may soon be a thing of the past. Atlanta’s Liberty Defense, with funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and technology from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), is commercializing two new checkpoint screening technologies, the Shoe Scanner and
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Industry 4.0 and the push towards manufacturing automation hinges on optimization. As manufacturing plants become more digital, these facilities need a way to better access, optimize and act on disparate data. From its home base in Raleigh, ndustrial.io just raised a $6 million Series A round to do
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With a new $1.7 million seed round, Maptician is ready to get work...by getting other people safely back to work. As a facilities management SaaS startup, Maptician’s self-service approach allows “true visibility into space usage," President Nick Eurek told Hypepotamus. On the facilities side, Maptician helps
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Endurance athletes measure everything. From sleep to heart rate to food intake, logging key insights can help the pros reach peak performance. But Atlanta-based Phil Southerland knew that such tracking had its limits. As a professional cyclist and co-founder of Team Novo Nordisk, Southerland recognized there was no way to
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Shyft Auto founders say they didn’t have a pandemic in mind when they originally developed a tech platform to help car dealerships go “contactless.” Then COVID-19 hit, just as they were launching, and it became even more relevant. “When repair shops closed their waiting areas, our contactless tool for
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The Southeast is power-hungry. At least when it comes to proving its clout as an EnergyTech hub. Startups — with the help of academic partners, corporate innovation programs, and pure grit — grew the Southeast’s renewable energy ecosystem over the past decade. As the national conversation focuses on funding new energy