accelerators
Create-X Startup Launch, Georgia Tech’s entrepreneurial initiative and startup accelerator, just wrapped up its latest cohort on campus. 75 teams set up their booths last night for Demo Day, where they chatted with local investors, potential customers, and the larger Atlanta startup community. If the line wrapped around Georgia
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All three recipients of this year's Startup Atlanta Lifetime Achievement Award have quite literally left their mark on the City of Atlanta. Jay Bailey, Bill Conners, and David Cummings have all been created new startup and innovation hubs across Metro Atlanta, and have served at the heads of
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It’s a building that is impossible to miss when you’re driving into or leaving Atlanta. Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Arthur M. Blank Hospital is transforming the skyline around the intersection of North Druid Hills and I-85. But when its doors open in fall of 2024, the hospital
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The right summer internship can be a springboard for ambitious college students. But it can also be an important jumping off point for students looking to get their foot into the competitive world of startups and venture capital. The startup path is anything but linear, so we wanted to understand
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The CPG world is playing catch up. For decades, consumer product goods (think household goods, packaged foods, and personal cosmetic items), had the upper hand in product discovery since they only had to buy ad slots on the very few TV stations or print publications. But when ads moved onto
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The 83 startups, representing 10 states across the South, have been selected as Venture Atlanta's featured tech companies and will take the stage the conference later at the end of September. For its 16th annual run, Venture Atlanta will be bringing together founders and investors at the Woodruff
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Editor’s note: This article was first published in Global Atlanta, an online news publication devoted to revealing the city’s ties with the world and helping local companies navigate the global economy.It was written by Managing Editor Trevor Williams and is published here as part of a content
Companies
Armed with a $3.8 million seed round, Wilmington, North Carolina-based Raleon is on a mission to change the Web3 marketing landscape. Marketing within decentralized networks – a concept that underpins the move into Web3 – is a bit “like driving in the fog,” says Raleon co-founder and CEO Nathan Snell. “While
B2B
Getting to the top of a Google search result page is gold for online brands. It’s why companies spend big bucks on SEO (search engine optimization) tools and digital marketing talent. But optimizing organic search results across dozens, or even hundreds, of product SKUs can be a nightmare for
B2B
Cyclists and runners have long used the miles of pavement that make up the Atlanta BeltLine for their workouts. But the trail has been attracting a more diverse group of fitness enthusiasts, thanks to free yoga, HIIT, Zumba, and other fitness classes. The classes are a big draw (even in
B2C
It’s time to say goodbye to the project-by-project to-do lists, says Charlotte entrepreneur Gloria Folaron. “The future of work has to be more than a task list. Engagement is dropping, productivity is dropping, people are thinking about quitting their jobs all the time. The generation in the work force
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However the numbers are sliced, it’s been a quiet year for venture capitalists. Despite sitting on a lot of cash – around $271 billion of dry powder by some estimates – the number of investment checks cashed by startups is down 53% year-over-year and are even down below pre-pandemic levels. Newly-minted