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Just four months after coming out of stealth mode, Atlanta-based Danti has landed a new contract that will bring their AI-powered search capabilities into the US Space Force, the newest branch of the US Armed Forces. Danti just announced it was awarded a $1.2 million contract with AFWERX, the
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Is the future of climate resiliency getting built right now in North Carolina? The team behind Natrx thinks so, and they just landed a large seed investment to continue to grow its “Living Shorelines” and Dry FormingTM advanced manufacturing technology. The startup, which builds nature-based technology and manufacturing products to
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Today, WellCapped is a wig rental service designed to make new hairstyles “accessible, sustainable, and budget-friendly.” But co-founders Shante Frazier and Lauren Mitchell told Hypepotamus that they have plans to turn WellCapped into the “Netflix for beauty products” platform that can make quality user recommendations. In order to do that,
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Yes, Pittsburgh calls itself the ‘robotics capital of the world’. And places like Silicon Valley and Boston are known for churning out automation-related startups. But could Atlanta soon be known as a hub for robotics innovation? Ward Broom, ATDC’s Automation and Robotics Catalyst, told Hypepotamus that Atlanta and the
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Just six months into business, North Carolina-based PerfectScale has already landed impressive customers like Paramount Pictures, Fiverr, and Monday.com. That quick growth is due to the fact that the startup is fixing a very big problem for those building in Cloud environments: Scaling Kubernetes is expensive and time consuming.
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Atlanta-based SingleOps has a new CEO. The SaaS startup named Mark Sedgley as its new top executive last week, taking over from co-founder Sean McCormick who has been in the position since 2014. SingleOps has reached an inflection point that most startups hit as they continue to scale. And Sedgley’
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For the last ten years, Google has been sending Google in Residence teams to universities across the country to increase diversity within the tech community. This year, Morehouse College students have their own Googler on campus helping with introductory computer science classes. Utsav Lathia, a product manager on Google Lens,
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Public health research on the LGBT+ population in the United States is growing, from new findings in HIV prevention and treatment to looking into disparities in access to care during and after the pandemic. So why aren’t more queer researchers involved in shaping this developing field? Noah Mancuso, a
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The race is on to decarbonize our economy, electrify our roads, and create a cleaner energy supply. Startups from around the globe are stepping up, leading to a boom of CleanTech venture funding over the last several years. But to really accelerate change, there needs to be stronger connections between
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On any given day, Downtown Nashville is buzzing with country music legends and up-and-coming artists who flock to Music City from around the world. But this week, it was Tennessee tech founders and investors who took to center stage. 3686 Festival, Nashville’s entrepreneurial conference hosted by LaunchTN, brought the
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Terri-Nichelle Bradley has brought on big name partners throughout the years while building Brown Toy Box, an educational toy company dedicated to promoting diversity and inclusion in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics). Hypepotamus covered Brown Toy Box in 2018 when it landed a partnership with NASA. Earlier this
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The energy around Birmingham, Alabama's EnergyTech scene is buzzing once again as a new Techstars cohort rolls into town. 12 startups were selected last week to join the latest Techstars Alabama EnergyTech Accelerator and have come to Birmingham to connect with mentors and key stakeholders over the coming