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On the whole, the pullback in venture funding over the last several months was drastic. Startup funding fell by 53% year-over-year and 33% quarter-over-quarter, according to Crunchbase News. But the slowdown has not impacted all segments of the tech scene equally. Software and FinTech are still widely attracting investors. And
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Tampa-based Twos App is out to change the way we write things down. That might sound like a tall order, but founders Joe Steilberg and Parker Klein saw a fundamental flaw in the way we jot down notes, be it grocery lists, restaurant recommendations, or meeting notes. “I used to
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For veteran entrepreneur Adam Anderson, getting a good laugh out of you during a cybersecurity training is the sign of a job well done. That measurement, he says, stems from his fundamentally different vision around what it takes to teach employees about cyber threats. “We say security is way too
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It’s almost as if all signs pointed to Atlanta for French unicorn startup Exotec. Rudi Lueg, Exotec’s Managing Director North America, said that the warehouse robotics company was looking for an east coast base after closing its €295 million Series D round earlier this year. The team already
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Digital health was the hot topic for VCs after the pandemic, with funding in the space reaching $29 billion in 2021 alone. While telehealth led the initial innovation push, startups and VCs now looking to tackle other problems found across the US healthcare system. While venture funding fell year-over-year, 2022
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“Mythic” isn’t a word you want to hear when it comes to the process of landing your next job. But that is exactly what the US immigration process feels like to most tech employees, says Mandy Feuerbacher, EVP of Sales & Consular Affairs at Argo Visa. “Getting a visa
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There are people who spend their entire lives in the “startup land." But after 20 years in corporate America, Holly Wasson joined her first startup in 2018 because she found a platform that was solving the very real problems she experienced in the marketing departments at large companies. Wasson
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When a B2B startup has customers using its platform while at the gym, it is a good chance it is onto something big for the business community. That is what Sat (Satyam) Ramphal said is happening when customers start using Maya AI. Ramphal describes Maya as “a digital human” for
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While Karishma "Kush” Chawla had entrepreneurial ambitions since childhood, it was a ticket to Coachella in 2018 that ultimately sparked her first startup. “It was the year that Beyonce was headlining,” Chawla told Hypepotamus. “And a few months after her performance, Netflix came out with this documentary Homecoming. And
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The future of emergency preparedness is ultra personalized, according to Florida entrepreneur Joe Russo. That thesis was certainly put to the test last week as his startup Emergency Ventures kicked its launch into hyperdrive in order to help Floridians in the wake of Hurricane Ian, which made landfall as a
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At the time he took office in 2013, Patrick Murphy was the youngest member in the United States Congress. Now, this politician-turned-entrepreneur is looking to bring some youthful exuberance to the notoriously old-school construction industry. Murphy is the founder of Togal.AI, a company that is an ode both to
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When Felisha Booker moved from New York to Atlanta, she recognized the vibrant music industry in town was missing something big. “The thing that shocked me was that while the music community was here, it just didn't seem like there were a lot of check writers in the