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The “request a demo” button is out and instant conversations are in, says the team behind Atlanta-based Callbird. The SaaS startup, which officially launched last week, is a live video platform that helps sales teams bridge the “enormous gap between website visitors and real conversations with prospects,” says co-founder Brad
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TTV Capital, an Atlanta-based fintech venture capital firm, has tapped a veteran in the payments space as a new Venture Partner. Paul Todd most recently served as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at transaction processing giant Global Payments, a Fortune 500 company based in Atlanta. After working
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150. That’s how many new features Mailchimp users have at their fingertips in order to build and analyze marketing campaigns. The new and updated features are designed to keep up with the day-to-day needs of busy marketers, says Mailchimp’s Sr. Director of Product Development Jenny Gibson. Mailchimp users
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While country music and bachelorette parties might be top of mind when most people think of Nashville, those in the startup world are more likely to talk about healthcare ventures. But could the city soon be known as a hub for SportsTech? Or maybe a center for entertainment and media
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Date nights. Weddings. Proms. An anniversary dinner. Or “just because” you want to take a Rolls-Royce out for a spin. If you’re looking to ride in style around Charlotte, founder Andre Powell Jr. is building something for you. His startup, Goldsainte, is a luxury ride share company that allows
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Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war. That was the one-sentence statement – signed by startup leaders and CEOs and even presidents around the globe – issued last month by The Centre for AI Safety. And that
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More robots will soon be built in the Metro Atlanta area. ABB, a European multinational corporation focused on electrification and automation, is putting down roots in Alpharetta with a newly opened Packaging and Logistics facility in the tech hub just north of Atlanta. ABB Robotics builds a full suite of
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What if brands could ensure a new product launch was going to be a hit even before it got on shelves? Today, brands can try to leverage seemingly endless amounts of consumer data to pinpoint what might perform well next. But Atlanta native Drew Williams saw a major flaw in
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The Southeast is home to a new venture studio. The Innovation Studio launched this week in Nashville, Tennessee with a very specific mission in mind: Make Music City a capital for “Industrial AI” innovation. Founder and CEO Brian Moyer told Hypepotamus that the team behind the studio is in the
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A fintech startup spun out of another startup in Wilmington, North Carolina has landed its own $3 million in venture capital funding. APPROVE, an internal lending network for the equipment rentals, launched when KWIPPED founder Robert Preville and his team started looking for solutions for lending options for customers already
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The story behind the startup WellStory is personal for founder Barrett Merrill. Like an estimated 40 million Americans, Merrill started exploring therapy in 2019. While he said the process was “incredibly impactful” for him, something big was getting in the way: Seemingly endless paperwork. “Something that I felt was challenging
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Last summer when we first met Zinnia, one of the latest startups coming out of Atlanta Ventures Studio, founder Lauren Marturano told us about her vision for what team building and offsite experiences should look like in our post-pandemic world. But like many startups, the venture has grown and evolved