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Any way you slice the numbers, there is certainly a “glaring gap” in the venture capital community. On the founder side of the table, women-founded startups received just 2.3% of all VC dollars invested in 2020 (down from a record 2.8% in 2019), according to available Crunchbase data.
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Love is in the air for the Atlanta startup scene right now. Last week, Hypepotamus shared the story of Whirl, a Techstars Atlanta-backed app that brings a modern twist to the art of matchmaking. Now, a new type of app is launching to help daters move beyond the photo-centric realities
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If you're an athlete, Ali Barnes has an app that might be music to your ears. ProElite is a unique training app that teaches sports fundamentals through music. As a lifelong basketball player turned trainer, Barnes started experimenting with using clapping and rhythm as a method for teaching
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For Slalom Ventures, the launch of its new program “Venture For Good” is all about creating “win-win” opportunities for startups and enterprises. Slalom is now accepting applications for its first cohort, which will focus specifically on helping Artificial intelligence (AI) startups. Fully funded by Slalom Ventures, the non-dilutive impact accelerator
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As I approached my college graduation I was unsure what to do next so I went and talked to an Army recruiter then enlisted in the Army. The taxpayers of the United States funded an all-expenses paid trip for me to Fort Leonard Wood, in Pulaski County Missouri, where I
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Hypepotamus first caught up with Nashville-based LASSO all the way back in 2015 as the startup was building a streamlined events management platform. Since then the team – and the events space as a whole – has transformed. Live events first were dealt a blow from COVID. Now, the industry is trying
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Rarely has a tech acquisition so impacted the daily habits of individual social media users. Following Elon Musk's $44 billion purchase of Twitter on October 27, people and companies alike have been scrambling to figure out how they are going to post on the platform moving forward. Controversy
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Just 18 months since its founding, Freedom Games has big plans for the indie video game market. The Alabama startup just raised its first round of outside capital, a $10 million seed round led by Singapore-based gaming VC firm Play Ventures. Nashville Capital Network and San Francisco-based GFR Fund also
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Charlotte-based ThreatSwitch is taking the acquisition route as it looks to grow its Charlotte-based team. The security compliance startup announced this week it was acquired by Sign In Solutions, a visitor management and risk mitigation software. Sign In’s US headquarters is in St. Petersburg, and it is a portfolio
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Born and raised in Colombia, Lily Hagen said she struggled trying to raise her kids in a bilingual household in the United States. “I thought it was going to be a breeze to teach my kids Spanish, but it was not. It was super, super hard,” she told Hypepotamus. “But
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Every second counts for the clients of the Tampa startup SOMA Global. But law enforcement, EMS, fire, dispatch, social service, and correctional organizations face a unique set of challenges when it comes to embracing technology, says Mike Mattson, Chief Growth Officer at SOMA Global. “The public safety industry is riddled
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Brea Fullerton jokes that she’s been playing Monopoly within the walls of Saltbox. She originally moved her small business, a consumer brand company called Shinery, into a 120 square foot space inside of the hybrid warehouse and office environment first piloted in Atlanta’s Westside in 2021. But soon