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Morehouse College students might walk onto campus this coming fall and be greeted by an AI TA. Certain professors at the HBCU in Atlanta will be adopting a digitized, animated, AI-powered version of themselves that can answer class questions at any time. That can help professors clear up their schedules
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Over half of the Americans are part of the hourly workforce. And yet the big job board players aren't designed with them — or their employers — in mind. Most job boards, like LinkedIn and Indeed, focus on salaried positions and aren't suitable for high turnover positions. That
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Question for startup founders out there: How many software subscriptions do you have for you and your team? Chances are your team spends the day bouncing between Slack, email, HubSpot, Notion, LinkedIn, a few different project management tools, and whatever platform holds your code. But as Metro Atlanta founders Kelly
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Georgia is the home of fintech. More than 70% of all debit, credit and reward card payments are processed in Georgia’s ‘Transaction Alley.’ There is no better place than Atlanta to harness the power of innovation to shape a better financial future. This is why the Technology Association of
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The Southeast’s business landscape is full of major FinTech players like First Data, WorldPay, Global Payments, TSYS, Equifax, NCR, Incomm, and Corpay. But it has also been fertile ground for the next generation of FinTech players, from unicorns AvidXchange in North Carolina and Greenlight in Atlanta to fast-growing startups
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Atlanta had its first 100 degree day in nearly five years this week. To beat the heat, stay inside and catch up on this week's headlines! The Big Story Atlanta-based Rainforest, an embedded payments fintech serving mid-market customers, raised a $20 million Series A from a mix of
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Glitzy new artificial intelligence startups are popping up everywhere, and they’ve taken a bulk of venture capital checks written over the last year and a half. But it’s not just early-stage startups that are building the latest AI products. Seasoned tech companies, especially those in the Southeast, may
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Rainforest is making a strong case that it is Atlanta’s fintech startup to watch. Since getting an infusion of seed capital last October, the team has grown its payment volume by 17x. It found a sweet spot serving mid-market customers, which other major players in the embedded payments world
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Startup founder Don Templeman wants to make polarization in journalism a thing of the past. That certainly seems like a lofty goal in 2024. Today, big media outlets and social media platforms build their audiences by reinforcing specific viewpoints. The reality is that the focus is on click rates and
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The second most popular sport on the planet is having a moment in the United States. The US has been playing co-host to the Men’s Cricket World Cup this summer, spurring “unprecedented interest” among a new crop of cricket fans, according to the sport’s administrative body. That has
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In a perfect world, founders and investors would always agree on what a startup should be valued at. But as founders out there know all too well, this isn't perfect a perfect world. And that is particularly true for startup valuations. More than most other startup metrics and
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It’s a match made in procurement heaven. Bedrock, a St. Petersburg, Florida-based startup, announced today that it is acquiring Protoco. The all-stock deal brings together two procurement software companies headquartered in St. Petersburg. Bedrock is a “supplier enablement solution” to simplify payments, minimize risk, and reduce onboarding time for