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When Hypepotamus first introduced readers to Noelle London back in 2017, she was a recent Atlanta transplant ready to drive innovation through her work at Invest Atlanta. Now in 2022, she’s moved to the other side of the proverbial founder-investor table with the launch of Illoominus. “I've
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The team behind Arcum Partners thinks the merchant services space is missing something pretty critical. “For an industry that has the word ‘services’ in it, there is a huge lack of services,” co-founder Sebastian Builes explained to Hypepotamus. The Atlanta-based team built out an analytics platform to help payment processors
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John Howard has the goods to back up the superlative of being the founder with the ‘most swagger’ in the Metro Atlanta area. He started Slingshot after years as a designer and after building up the creative software development firm Black Airplane. Company swag bags were a necessary part of
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People may open a wine bottle to celebrate a work win. But for co-founders and recent Tulane University graduates Franziska Trautmann and Max Steitz, a shared bottle of wine sparked an entirely new business concept, aptly named Glass Half Full. The two were frustrated that the bottle of wine they
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ATDC has felt like home to Alex Rhodeen for some time now. After moving to Atlanta in 2013, he found his way to the startup incubator in Midtown as he helped build up the last-mile logistics startup Kanga as its chief operating officer. Now in 2022, Rhodeen is returning to
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The founder of a new cybersecurity ‘unicorn’ thinks the industry has a bit of a PR problem. “The [cybersecurity] industry has been built on fear, uncertainty, and doubt,” Erkang Zheng told Hypepotamus. “I wanted to change that.” Part of that change has been about rethinking cyber inventory management. And this
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Communication is difficult in any workplace, but the co-founders behind Prokeep recognized that it was a particular problem for those working in construction. Jack Carrere, McKay Johnson, and Mark Kanof noticed this when they started working more with contractors for various home improvement projects. Ultimately, the team saw a need
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The food and beverage cart rolling down the aisle is a welcome treat in the middle of a flight. But what appears as a snack break to most passengers looks like a golden opportunity to David Hailey. Hailey, an accountant and a graduate of both NC State and Duke’s
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With interest rate hikes, a “crypto winter,” and mounting stagflation or recession concerns, there is a general sense of uncertainty at best — and pessimism at worst — about the current state of financial markets. That has “Big Tech” companies and investors scrambling. But local fintech leaders see unique reasons to be
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Every day, people find themselves bombarded with an overwhelming amount of negative or concerning news from various sources without knowing ways to participate in helping these specific causes. After watching families separated at the border in 2016, Maria Underwood, the solo founder of Fundrage, designed a free chrome extension allowing
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Animesh Koratana got his first glimpse of entrepreneurship in elementary school when his father launched a startup in the basement of their Metro Atlanta home. At an early age, Koratana helped out the company with various testing projects, giving him an inside look into how software and product teams think
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Research Triangle Park-based Klearly is positioning itself as your team’s “revenue sidekick.” Its platform helps marketing, sales, and customer success teams better understand where they should focus their energy to drive more revenue. Leveraging AI and historical data, Klearly helps a company dive into how content marketing, email campaigns,