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Meet The New Hosts of Atlanta Startup Village

Meet The New Hosts of Atlanta Startup Village

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

Atlanta-based Verdata sees opportunity in embedded finance trend, raises seed round

Atlanta-based Verdata sees opportunity in embedded finance trend, raises seed round

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,

Can Southeast Startups Lead in the Crypto and Web 3.0 Space?

Can Southeast Startups Lead in the Crypto and Web 3.0 Space?

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

Founder of Atlanta-based Travelsist On Getting A Startup Off The Ground From Inside The Airport

Founder of Atlanta-based Travelsist On Getting A Startup Off The Ground From Inside The Airport

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

Atlanta's Verusen Closes $25M Series B To Build More Resilient Manufacturing Supply Chains

Atlanta's Verusen Closes $25M Series B To Build More Resilient Manufacturing Supply Chains

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

A "Cap Table For Every Song": Atlanta-based Aurign Has A Tech Solution To Get Musicians Paid

A "Cap Table For Every Song": Atlanta-based Aurign Has A Tech Solution To Get Musicians Paid

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

What Airbnb's Atlanta Office Means For The Local Startup Scene

What Airbnb's Atlanta Office Means For The Local Startup Scene

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