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New Orleans-based Resilia Makes History With $35M Series B

In 2020, the Hypepotamus team wrote that it would be a good idea to keep an eye on Sevetri Wilson, a New Orleans tech entrepreneur and founder of nonprofit business intelligence platform Resilia. All eyes are certainly on Wilson this week as she makes history. Resilia’s new $35 million

ATL Interior Designers Build A Better SaaS Platform For The Construction Industry

ATL Interior Designers Build A Better SaaS Platform For The Construction Industry

It was a classic “build the plane in the air” scenario for the team at Dana Lynch Design. The accomplished Atlanta-based firm landed an opportunity to design the interiors for several large new-urbanism communities. That work came with its own unique challenges. “We had to figure out a better way

Behind The Growing InsurTech Scene In Atlanta & Tampa

Behind The Growing InsurTech Scene In Atlanta & Tampa

Don’t let the name fool you. Tampa-based iink Payments is on a mission to eliminate the extra “ink” associated with the insurance industry. The problem stems around collecting signatures on physical checks. “When you get a check from the insurance company, they can oftentimes have as many as seven

NC's Spiffy Lands New Funding As AutoTech Sector Continues Rapid Growth

NC's Spiffy Lands New Funding As AutoTech Sector Continues Rapid Growth

A year ago when we caught up with North Carolina-based Spiffy, the on-demand car care startup was rebounding from Covid with a new franchising expansion plan. A year into the franchising effort, Grayson Leverenz, Spiffy’s Chief Marketing Officer, told Hypepotamus that the startup has expanded into 10 markets and

What Happened in Southeast Tech: February 2021

What Happened in Southeast Tech: February 2021

Despite the shorter month, Southeast tech startups still brought in some impressive headlines over the course of February. Here is your wrap-up of the month's news: Funding Stories * Atlanta: Account-based marketing platform Terminus raised $90 milion in Series C funding. Read more here. * Nashville: Built Technologies raised $88

What The Southeast Built in 2020

What The Southeast Built in 2020

It’s time to look back and take stock of what we learned over the past twelve months. This year, that task feels more challenging than before. 2020 tested our collective patience, shuttered offices, shifted global markets, made us face loss, and left millions unemployed or underemployed. It also put

How Nashville-based Teaming sees leadership development in the wake of the pandemic

How Nashville-based Teaming sees leadership development in the wake of the pandemic

“I think we’ve all been in positions as leaders where we may have felt like we didn’t know exactly what to do. We read the books or listened to a Simon Sinek TedTalk, but on Monday, you don’t know how to actuate it,” Teaming’s co-founder Tim