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Birmingham Startup Homepoint Looks To Bring Real Estate Into the Digital & AI Age
Hypepotamus covers the innovators, startups, and technology trends shaping the business landscape across the Southeast region.
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Atlanta High School Founders Launch Hive, a Georgia-Built Platform Connecting House Flippers With Trusted Contractors
Milrud said he needed to bring on a technical co-founder. He found that person in a fellow Metro Atlanta high school student, Louis Singer, from Mount Vernon High School in Sandy Springs.
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Southeast Tech News From The Week Of December 1-5, 2025
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Closing Deals in Q4
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Meet the Founders and Builders Powering New Orleans
Rather than trying to replicate the playbook from coastal hubs, New Orleans is building infrastructure that plays to local strengths: industry access, capital efficiency, and founder retention.
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With 25k Early Users Already, Nashville Gaming Startup Tanbii Plants Real Trees Through Virtual Gameplay
Nashville startup Tanbii combines gaming with real-world impact as a gamified ClimateTech solution.
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Atlanta AgTech Startup Good Agriculture Raises $1.5M Seed Round Led by Pittsburgh's Nicely Road
Atlanta-based Good Agriculture raises $1.5M seed round led by Pittsburgh's Nicely Road for its AI-powered farm management platform. CEO Alex Edquist's startup streamlines agricultural business operations for regenerative farmers across the US, targeting 1,000+ customers and $2M ARR by 2027.Retry
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Atlanta, Chicago & Silicon Valley Investors Back Adviser Labs, A Startup Reimagining Compute-Intensive Workloads
Atlanta’s Adviser Labs raises $1M to simplify cloud computing for AI, biotech, and finance teams—eliminating DevOps bottlenecks for startups and enterprise businesses.
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These 5 founders will be on stage for the 3686 pitch competition this year
Athlete-specific tele-mental health solution Onrise won last year’s pitch competition and went on to secure funding from LaunchTN’s $70-million equity investment fund, InvestTN.
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After The Funding: Q&A With VIVA Finance's CEO Jack Markwalter
Atlanta-based VIVA Finance has secured $220 million in debt funding led by Community Investment Management to expand its AI-powered loan platform for working Americans with limited credit history.
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WEI Is Back. Who in Atlanta should apply?
With its relaunch, WEI is looking to bring on 15 female entrepreneurs who are building either high-growth potential or are scalable social impact ventures and have already created over $50k in revenue.
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Meet The Startup Finalists Vying For $50,000 At The First Sloss Tech Pitch Competition
Sloss.Tech/Ideas, funded by a grant from the Regions Foundation, will bring startup founders from across the Southeast who are building in AgTech, HealthTech, transportation, and emerging tech fields to the stage to pitch for several prizes, including $50,000 for the "Best in Show" winner and $10,00