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Atlanta’s latest construction-focused technology startup is looking to bring the puzzle pieces together for busy architects. Skema, which was recently accepted into ATDC’s (Advanced Technology Development Center) Accelerate Program, uses artificial intelligence to overcome long-standing limitations seen across the AEC (architecture engineering construction) industry. The startup’s platform
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Blake Stoner was studying at Morehouse College when protests broke out in Ferguson, Missouri after news that Michael Brown was fatally shot by police. As a civic-minded college student, he went up to Ferguson to help register people to vote, with the hopes that more engagement in the elections could
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Another work week in the books. For Southeast startups, this week brought early-stage and later-stage funding headlines...and news of a global headquarter relocation. To round out your Friday, we’ve curated the biggest innovation news from across the region to make sure you are up-to-date with all the latest.
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“Location, location, location” isn’t just a mantra for potential homebuyers. It underpins the decisions both individuals and companies make every day, says Savannah-based entrepreneur Christopher Nichols. We rely on location data to get around cities we know well and those we are visiting. Companies use it to pinpoint their
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After bootstrapping its first year, Carputty raised its first seed round in 2020. Since then, the startup has raised over $100m in funding and as co-founder and CPO, Joshua Tatum has spent at least as much of his time on fundraising as he has on building the Carputty product and
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Ifrah Khan has a knack for building marketplace startups. She founded her first one, an on-demand babysitting mobile app called Usit, while she was still a student at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. Over three years, Atlanta college students earned over a million dollars through babysitting and thousands of
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Women Who Code (WWC), an international tech community headquartered in Atlanta, announced late last week that it was abruptly shutting down operations. The organization was started by a group of engineers in San Francisco in 2011 with the expressed goal of bringing more women into the tech community. After cementing
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Breaking into the music and entertainment industry can often come down to ‘who you know’ instead of ‘what you know.’ That was a reality Nikki Sanz saw first-hand as she built up her career as a production assistant and tour manager across Nashville’s music and live events scene. “Traditionally,
Corporate Innovators
Editor’s note: Global Atlanta’s Michal Jensby traveled to Taipei with the delegation to contribute the bulk of the reporting for this article. This article was first published in Global Atlanta, an online news publication devoted to revealing the city’s ties with the world and helping local companies
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At first glance, it might seem difficult to come up with many similarities between Taipei and its Sister City, Atlanta. The Taiwanese capital has five metro lines that moves millions of people a day. Metro Atlanta’s daily rider numbers just hit 200,000. Despite carrying an endless stream of
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Clean-focused technology companies across the country are having a moment. Public and private spending into space is up this year. And VC dollars into Cleantech grew 30% over the last two years despite overall VC funding dips, according to Crunchbase data. The Southeast has long been a hub for Cleantech
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Another work week in the books. For Southeast startups, this week brought some big acquisition news and its fair share of early-stage funding headlines. To round out your Friday, we’ve curated the biggest innovation news from across the region to make sure you are up-to-date with all the latest.