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The next big startup success story to come out of Georgia Tech just might reshape the very core of how we communicate. Falcomm, a semiconductor startup based out of Atlanta, has a new type of power amplifier for the wireless communications market. Its Dual-Drive PA, which founder Edgar Garay developed
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Revamping a startup’s entire tech stack can sound daunting for a founder. After all, founders are told to ‘move fast and break things’ – an adage that focuses on moving a product forward as quickly as possible. Going back and re-evaluating core processes of the business takes time. But that
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Techstars Atlanta’s portfolio has another successful exit to its name. Punchlist, a SaaS startup that graduated from Techstars Atlanta in 2021, has been acquired by Atlanta-based digital marketing agency Marketwake. Integrating into the agency world is a full circle moment for Punchlist, which grew out of founder and previous
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Teacher-turned-entrepreneur Anike Mlemchukwu is on a mission to change how parents with special needs children get the support they need. Lapapoe is a platform where parents can post their needs for a child with autism, down syndrome, cerebral palsy, or other developmental and behavioral health issues. Requests might include the
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Switchyards, the membership-only work club, is opening its 10th space in the heart of Atlanta’s startup and technology neighborhood. Midtown has long been the center of Atlanta’s business community. In recent years, corporate giants like Google, NCR, and Invesco have opened up large offices in the neighborhood and
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After bootstrapping for the better part of the last eleven years, Charlotte-based Finzly is ending 2023 with a big fundraising announcement. The fintech startup closed a $10 million Series A round from New York-based TZP Growth Equity last month, a move that founder Booshan Rengachari would help bolster the company’
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It’s one thing for investors and organizations to say that they want to back diverse founders. It is quite another for them to actually make good on that promise and write checks. We know those checks are often not written, since just one percent of VC funds go to
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A pivot into the world of Public Relations (PR) has proved fruitful for early-stage startup Managr. The Atlanta-based startup, which launched as a SalesTech tool in 2021, announced its PR assistant just two months ago for companies and agencies looking to get an AI-boost to their PR efforts. The platform
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Diving into startups wasn’t Joey Womack’s initial career plan. He intended to follow in his father’s footsteps and become an accountant, and he was eyeing one of the Big Four firms after graduating from Florida A&M. But he caught the ‘startup bug’ while thinking about
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If you find yourself aimlessly scrolling TikTok or picking up your phone every time you hear a notification ping, you might want to take this new app for a spin. Roots, launched by Atlanta-based entrepreneur Clint Jarvis, looks to help users set more intentional boundaries when it comes to phone
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It’s a phenomenon that those in the startup world are well aware of. A founder has a great idea and a cool website, but they end up shutting down soon after launch because they couldn’t find paying customers. Perhaps the idea was too early or hit the market
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Jon Hutson and his team kept running into a big problem when they were conducting research for their clients. While everyone agreed research is important, they didn’t always agree on the price tag or timeline. “It’s often the first thing to get cut from a project budget because