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The latest additions to the Atlanta BeltLine are all about getting down to business. The BeltLine MarketPlace is the city’s first small business incubator designed to support minority and women-owned businesses with access to both business coaching and crucial retail space along some of the most highly-trafficked walking areas
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Jasmine Crowe set out to change how communities eat. Since launching Atlanta-based Goodr in 2017 as a sustainable surplus food management platform, she’s become known for her external work helping connect people with food, creating community food banks, and tackling the logistical challenges that create hunger. To date, Goodr
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Scott Monroe noticed something important was missing when he left the Marine Corps and started his career as a firefighter. “The military does performance management, promotional processes, team building, and organizational structure really well. And I thought it would be similar on the civilian side with public safety. But it
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Since cryptocurrency emerged on the scene in 2008, veteran investors and miners have navigated their fair share of ups and downs in the market. But the latest downturn feels a bit different, mostly because crypto has become more mainstream. Many casual investors were introduced to the space through NFTs (non-fungible
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When Hypepotamus last caught up with Tommy Linstroth and his Savannah-based Green Badger in 2018, they were already alleviating a big problem in the construction world. The pandemic and the growing corporate sustainability movement put the focus on what our built environment looks like even more front and center. Linstroth
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The US tech world and its investors are navigating uncertain waters. While unemployment numbers remain at an all-time low, larger tech companies have made major headlines recently for layoffs, hiring freezes, and declining valuations. The latest statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that while the number of job
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Steph Tulley sees her age as a strength as she takes on the InsurTech space. She went from a receptionist at a small insurance company to owning her own insurance brokerage firm in just eight years. As her career developed throughout her early twenties, Tulley saw that the insurance space
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From dating apps to LinkedIn intros to Instagram DMs, a good chunk of our in-person interactions today start in the digital world. Brad Loflin and Roy Odima saw an opportunity to better facilitate digital introductions…and along the way created a new way to think about financial technology. Loflin and
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Growing up in a designated food desert inspired Mark Peterson to focus on logistics needed to help underserved shoppers manage healthy and affordable meals for their families. He launched Ziscuit to do just that. Peterson describes Ziscuit as a “grocery shopping platform and reverse auction marketplace.” Consumers post their lists
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Early in the pandemic, Paul Owusu was one of many people who leaned into at-home cocktail making. But he turned that passion into a full-blown business…and it is making quite the splash in the canned cocktail world. Owusu recently moved to Atlanta to be closer to his co-founders and
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From creating an immersive cinema in a New York living room to raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to film a unique, self-designed project rejected by agencies, Emily Best has built an impressive film career in her own right. But like many filmmakers, she ran into problems raising the necessary
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Well before Capital on Tap opened its office in Midtown Atlanta, the London-based fintech startup already had deep roots in the city. Co-founder and CEO David Luck is an Emory graduate. COO Damian Brychcy grew up in Metro Atlanta and holds degrees from both Georgia Tech and the University of