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Techstars Atlanta Grad Bootstraps To Acquisition

Techstars Atlanta Grad Bootstraps To Acquisition

Atlanta native Max Ade chuckles when he thinks about his move back to Georgia from the West Coast. “It felt like we were on the last flight out during an evacuation,” he said, since the move coincided with the day San Francisco first implemented lockdown orders in March of 2020.

Austin-based NuBrakes Sees Opportunity In Southeast Auto Industry & Startup Scene

Austin-based NuBrakes Sees Opportunity In Southeast Auto Industry & Startup Scene

NuBrakes is betting big on the Southeast. And as the startup expands throughout the region, it is ready to rethink what the future of car care might look like. The Austin-based startup is the brainchild of Walker Drewett, who started building in the AutoTech space while he was still

After The Deal: Roadie Founder On The Path to Acquisition and The Road Ahead

After The Deal: Roadie Founder On The Path to Acquisition and The Road Ahead

When Roadie first hit the streets, founder Marc Gorlin saw an opportunity to create a logistics marketplace that was somewhat of a “UPS, eBay and Airbnb spun together.” Seven years later, Roadie is now officially under the UPS banner. The road to acquisition looks different for every startup. But from

Tuscaloosa Team Is Ready To Show How Tech Can Fight Blight

Tuscaloosa Team Is Ready To Show How Tech Can Fight Blight

A technology born in the economics department at the University of Alabama is ready to hit the streets to help fight blight. Blight — like boarded-up windows, boarded-up doors, overgrown grass, and other depreciated properties — has both direct and indirect impacts on a city’s overall economic development efforts,

Hootsuite's Expansion Into Atlanta Is A Homecoming Of Sorts For Company's CEO

Hootsuite's Expansion Into Atlanta Is A Homecoming Of Sorts For Company's CEO

Canadian social media management platform Hootsuite is moving into Midtown Atlanta’s Tech Square. Opening the office in Atlanta is key for the company looking to hire tech talent and scale in the US. But CEO Tom Keiser has even stronger connections to the city. “Growing up in the southeast

National Supply Chain Stress Creates Opportunity For Local Innovation

National Supply Chain Stress Creates Opportunity For Local Innovation

If you’ve tracked an overseas package or tried to buy any number of consumer electronics over the last few months, you know all about the inflexible nature of the global supply chain. Supply chain experts have long known about this inflexibility. As Professor Nikolay Osadchiy, Associate Professor of Information

Atlanta-based Bacchus Wants To Be The "Fitbit of Drinking"

“Don’t drink and drive.” That hard and fast rule has been drilled into us. There are always the warnings and the legal consequences of driving drunk, along with the horror stories of those who chose to do so. But the entrepreneur behind Bacchus, Joseph Hamilton, seeks to bring prevention