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The Southeast is home to a new venture studio. The Innovation Studio launched this week in Nashville, Tennessee with a very specific mission in mind: Make Music City a capital for “Industrial AI” innovation. Founder and CEO Brian Moyer told Hypepotamus that the team behind the studio is in the
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A fintech startup spun out of another startup in Wilmington, North Carolina has landed its own $3 million in venture capital funding. APPROVE, an internal lending network for the equipment rentals, launched when KWIPPED founder Robert Preville and his team started looking for solutions for lending options for customers already
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The story behind the startup WellStory is personal for founder Barrett Merrill. Like an estimated 40 million Americans, Merrill started exploring therapy in 2019. While he said the process was “incredibly impactful” for him, something big was getting in the way: Seemingly endless paperwork. “Something that I felt was challenging
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It seems like a match made in FinTech heaven. Yesterday, the payment data startup RIBBIT AI announced it has acquired ValidiFI, a Florida-based fraud, compliance, and risk mitigation startup in the financial services space. “RIBBIT’s primary customers are lenders and banks looking for increased payment data and visibility so
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Allison, a low-code visual API startup connecting community banks and FinTechs, is moving to Birmingham, Alabama following an investment from the Alabama Futures Fund (AFF). The move, announced this week, is strategic for the banking-as-a-service startup. Brian Alvarez-Bailey, Allison’s CEO, started the company while living in Tampa. After receiving
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Have a startup in mind but not sure if you have all the skills to bring that idea to life? It takes a lot more than vision to get a startup off the ground. Founding teams need to have technical skills, marketing chops, know how to hire, and be ready
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Sure, summer is a good time to unplug for a bit and get out of town for a bit of R&R. But for those looking to stick closer to home, summer is a great time to network in the local tech community. June 2023 is set to be
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The OG of the music streaming world is moving to Nashville. Napster, the twenty-four-year-old online music service, announced today it is moving its corporate headquarters to Nashville from the West Coast. This makes it the first global media company to set up shop in ‘Music City.’ Jon Vlassopulos, a Nashville
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David Reeser moved to Wilmington, North Carolina, a beach town that he describes as “paradise,” in 2016 with his family. But a report came out around that time suggesting it was far from paradise for many of Reeser’s neighbors. Upwards of 11.6% of Wilmington residents were abusing opioids,
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Survey says: Knowledge workers are actually ready for artificial intelligence to join the workplace. Or at the very least, they are ready for AI to take over many of their daily tasks. 70% of those surveyed in Microsoft’s latest Work Trend Index report said they would be willing to
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The startup GoodShip already has big names backing its cloud-based procurement platform. Its pre-seed round, announced in October of 2022, has Stord CEO Sean Henry, Convoy founder Dan Lewis, and FreightWaves founder Craig Fuller listed as investors. Now in the spring of 2023, the Nashville-based startup is adding to its
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Students at Morehouse College in Atlanta will be seeing a lot more green on campus next year. Sage, the British enterprise software giant with an iconic green logo, is partnering with the all-male HBCU to expand its software engineering program. Starting in the coming fall semester, Sage will be part