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Atlanta-based PadSplit and GROUNDFLOOR have been tackling real estate accessibility from two very different angles over the last few years. Perhaps it was only a matter of time before they joined forces to help bring new affordable housing units to communities in need. The two teams announced a new partnership
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Charlotte-based isolved, a SaaS company for HR professionals, has acquired Nashville startup Givful. Founded in 2017, Givful’s platform organizes employee volunteering and fundraising opportunities. The acquisition, isolved’s Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer James Norwood said, is part of the overall focus on purpose-driven work. “Giving and volunteering was
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To open, or not to open? That was the question for most Atlanta offices during the latter half of 2020. With vaccination programs in full swing, large companies and startups alike are asking a very different question in Q2 of 2021: How much space do we need? Office real estate
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What happens after you check ‘become an organ donor’ at the DMV? However well-intentioned organ donors may be, the reality is that upwards of 54% of donated organs are discarded. For the team behind OmniLife, it’s a logistics problem. “A big reason for organ discard is that not enough
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A Kentucky startup raised an $11.4 million Series A to address a major headache in the medical community: verifying patient benefits. eBlu is an electronic workflow solution that streamlines the prior authorization of expensive infusion-based specialty medications. Medical practices can verify a patient’s benefits and coverage information, along
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From its Midtown headquarters, Atlanta-based Itential has seen how the hybrid and multi-cloud network space has evolved over the last year. “Organizations faced unique circumstances in 2020 that no one expected, and teams found themselves utilizing different cloud-based services due to the shift to remote work. While organizations adapted to
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Let’s talk about bad breath. We’ve all experienced the unpleasant situation of sitting next to someone with bad breath or being stuck in public without a breath mint ourselves. But, as George Yu, PhD. told Hypepotamus, bad breath is not just an inconvenience — it can actually tell a
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If the recent SPAC, funding, and IPO news is any indication, the international EdTech scene is on the rise. While the pandemic has certainly changed physical classroom spaces, Ian Cohen, founder of Atlanta-based TARA Education Technologies , has seen firsthand that it has only “exacerbated existing inequities” in the overall education
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Two Georgia State alumni have teamed up to tackle the problem every college club president has dealt with: How do you get students to come to meetings once you run out of free pizza? Vishwa Mudigonda and Viraj Patel, who graduated from GSU with BBA and MBA respectively, started KemNu
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Morrisville, North Carolina-based inMotionNow has spent the last two decades streamlining and deploying a project management tool for creative teams. Now, they’re joining forces with Dutch company Lytho as the focus on creative content continues to rise. inMotionNOW CEO Douglas Thede told Hypepotamus the merger came about because his
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Atlanta’s Bellwood Quarry has been through many iterations throughout its history. First as a granite excavation site and then as a backdrop for TV hits like The Walking Dead and Stranger Things, it will soon be part of the city’s largest public park. Just as the quarry has
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Kathryn O’Day has spent more than a decade helping grow some of Atlanta’s biggest startup successes. Now, she’s joining the Atlanta Ventures team to help invest in the next generation of founders coming out of the city and the region. O’Day, a self-described “proud Atlantan,” went