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After 30 years in academia, Dr. Joel Berry is jumping into the startup world with a funding marketplace that could help bring the next big scientific breakthrough to life. Berry is the founder of Birmingham-based Astound, a platform dedicated to connecting academic researchers with companies. The goal is to streamline
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Even as musical festivals, theater shows, and smaller event venues increase in popularity, a handful of websites continue to be the standard when it comes to ticket sales. Stephen Beehler is taking on these large ticket sites with a simple, long-term web solution for producers and venue owners. TixPage looks
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When the Atlanta Braves wanted to build the first major league baseball stadium in the metaverse, they didn’t have to look too far to find the talent to make that happen. The 2021 World Series champions partnered with Roswell-based Surreal Events to bring Digital Truist Park to life last
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The wild ride of crypto continues. The price of Bitcoin is down 38% since the start of the year, creating an endless number of think pieces about what this latest “crypto crash” means for future investors. In Washington, a bipartisan group of senators proposed sweeping legislation this week to put
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Jeffrey Kaplan took to the TEDxAsheville stage earlier this year to talk about something uncomfortable: The entrepreneurial journey as we know it is pretty broken. As Director at Venture Asheville, he’s seen the negative outcomes that come when a tech ecosystem focuses on funding exclusively. Founders suffer when they
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It started with whispers in offices, during company happy hours, and in Zoom meetings. The startup success wave had been good — great, really — for tech ventures that raised record funding rounds at sky-high valuations. From HealthTech to WorkTech to FinTech, startups were solving some of the biggest challenges facing our
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Sports brands are betting big on…sports betting, of all things…to attract new fans. And an Atlanta-based startup could help them cash in on that bet. MoneyLine is an online sports app designed to bring the “younger and more casual person to the sports gaming space…the ones that
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The “dog days of summer” will have a whole new meaning this year for the team behind Grubbly Farms. The Atlanta-based startup and Create-X graduate, known for its sustainable food sources for backyard chickens, is expanding into dog treats. It is a strategic move for the company looking to make
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All ParkMobile employees start each morning with an email recap of the previous day’s analytics, giving them a look at how the parking app was growing day by day in cities across the country. Jeff Perkins, who was ParkMobile’s CMO in 2020, said it was about transparency and
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With 135 current team members on its payroll, Bark Technologies has more than doubled its headcount over the last two years. Now, the Atlanta-based team is nearly doubling the amount of outside investment it has in on its books. Bark announced this week the close of a $30 million Series
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One of the county’s largest multi-family real estate developers is tapping into the Atlanta high-tech startup ecosystem to attract new tenants. Alliance Residential has put a custom Presso robot in one of its latest Upper Westside Atlanta properties for all tenants to access five-minute, on-premise dry cleaning services. Nishant
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iOS developer and serial entrepreneur Jide Opeola started his latest tech venture to tackle a problem many Atlantans face: There are just too many good new restaurants to try around town. Between “best of” listicles, OpenTable reviews, and friend recommendations, there are plenty of places to search for new dinner