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You’d be hardpressed to find a tech company recently that doesn’t explicitly mention the local young talent pool as the main reason for setting up shop in the State of Georgia. Airbnb, Nike, Google, Microsoft, and countless other household names have relocated or added offices in the city
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Atlanta’s cloud supply chain company Stord has been a hot ticket for investors over the last 16 months. The team has raised $155 million between its Series C in March 2021 and Series D in September 2021, attracting national VC firms like Kleiner Perkins, Bond, Lux Capital, and Salesforce
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Staffing shortages have plagued restaurants in the wake of the pandemic, causing many to close or drastically reduce hours and the number of tables available on any given day. But as the restaurant veterans behind Birmingham startup Croux know, the issue didn’t start with COVID. “Turnover has always been
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The Rounds is a startup with a forward-thinking game plan to make households more sustainable. To accomplish this, they are taking inspiration from something a bit old school: The neighborhood milkman. As a refill subscription and logistics service, The Rounds delivers common household items that members request each week – be
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Like many students, the co-founders behind PettyGigs worked their way through college. But rather than just using that experience to pay tuition, William Ward and Alois Monger used the experience to build better opportunities for the next generation of students to earn money in a more flexible manner. The PettyGig’
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The payments paused, but the problem only grew. American adults now owe over $1.75 trillion in federal and private student loans, an amount that ballooned even though federal loan payments paused at the start of the pandemic. The State of Georgia carries a particularly high burden when it comes
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With the close of its $53 million Fund IV, Durham-based Bull City Venture Partners (BCVP) is poised to help keep the “flywheel” of local tech successes going. The team has been investing in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic region over the last decade, having backed startups like Get Spiffy, Spoonflower, and
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Navigating the local elections can feel like a full-time job during midterm and primary seasons. But just listening to TV ads or reading postcards mailed from different candidates won’t give a full picture of who local officials are and what they will do for the state. To tackle this
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New QR codes are popping up on streets across Atlanta. While they aren’t part of any public art project or guerrilla marketing campaign, the team behind the effort believes these will help the city get a better understanding of the ‘state of the streets.’ Atlanta-based iAccess Life, a lifestyle
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“Professional Plant Girl” and UGA student Kristen Dunning said she became an “entrepreneur by accident” after handing out soap at different horticulture research seminars. As an undergraduate in horticultural sciences, Dunning told Hypepotamus she spent years inside a greenhouse studying medicinal plants. She soon realized the commercial appeal of her
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The team behind Atlanta-based Charityvest believes it is time to innovate the philanthropic space. That means creating a FinTech solution that “delivers dollars to charities faster and more easily and in ways that make donors feel more comfortable,” said co-founder Stephen Kump. Charityvest has expanded the use cases for donor-advised
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When T.C. Whittaker started Audit Sight last year, he and his co-founder Jonathan Womack knew what the startup’s first guiding principle would be: “Everything we build must eliminate work for an auditor.” That was something that resonated with the two trained CPAs. Whittaker, a Tennessee native and longtime