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NFTs (non-fungible tokens) have taken over the Internet these days. But they are showing up in the physical world as well, including at a construction site off Old Ivy Road in Buckhead. NFT renderings fit right in at that spot, the soon-to-be home of the Atlanta Blockchain Center. The Center,
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When Nova Scota Business Inc. wanted to connect local Canadian startups with US investors and partnership opportunities, they first went to Boston and set up Scale-up Hub Cambridge. Their second stop: Atlanta. The launch of Scale-up Hub Atlanta is a natural fit for Atlantic Canadian founders looking to scale in
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Atlanta entrepreneur Seth Radman has hit another high note in the MusicTech space. A little over two years after his startup Crescendo was acquired by Ultimate Guitar, one of his latest ventures, Upbeat Music App, has also been acquired. Upbeat was officially acquired by Colorado-based MakeMusic, one of the original
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News that Macquarium is joining Synoptek is the start of a new chapter for one of the “OG” tech-focused service companies in Atlanta. But there are earlier chapters in the company’s story that are worth revisiting. Because from its headquarters on Peachtree Road in Buckhead, the company actually helped
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A walk around Inspire Brands’ Innovation Hub in Sandy Springs is a uniquely tasty experience. The center opened in 2021 as a way to test out new technologies that could ultimately end up at various franchise locations across the country. Some of those technologies you’ll be able to experience
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Zeba Parkar is proof you can build a career out of your hobby. She initially moved to the US and landed in the Midwest for a Ph.D. in material sciences and engineering. There, her long-time passion for gardening was brought indoors and she had to figure out the best
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Jim Schimpf saw the problems with recruiting hourly workforce employees long before any talk of the Great Resignation. He was a senior recruiter for TEKsystems, one of the largest IT staffing and recruiting firms, before ultimately moving into the startup space. He told Hypepotamus that hourly workforce turnover can exceed
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‘User-friendly cybersecurity’ isn’t a phrase you’ve likely to run into often. There’s a reason for that, says otto Chief Product Officer Chad Fowler. “The cybersecurity industry not only tolerates [things that aren’t user friendly], I think it welcomes it,” Fowler told Hypepotamus. “I think there is
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Move over Gmail. The team behind Telios believes they have an answer to all of our email woes and have created a safer, more robust email service that is better equipped to help us communicate on future iterations of the Internet. Taking on the likes of Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, and
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Calm Mattier, a Georgia Tech physics graduate turned teacher turned developer, is stepping into the CTO role for the fast-growing Atlanta startup Lillii RNB Inc. That team, which includes the fraud detection platform Freeing Returns, raised $3 million seed round from Serena William’s venture fund this April to help
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Atlanta has attracted international tech talent over the years, including most recently Serge Kadjo, an industrial engineer, entrepreneur, and self-proclaimed “idea converter.” His ideas have taken him across four continents as he’s helped both robotics-focused ventures and CleanTech startups scale. But it was a dry cleaning startup in Atlanta
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Nicole Toole, a recent graduate from Georgia State and CEO of Conserve Innovations, knows firsthand that students want to take care of the planet. But a lack of education and resources makes it hard to really understand what it takes to be more sustainable on campus. “It's not