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We’re only a week into Hollywood’s Writers Strike, but it is already impacting the film industry set up across the Southeast. The Writers Guild of America’s decision to strike caused Atlanta-based productions, like Stranger Things, to announce delays in their filming schedules. The longer the strike goes
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Atlanta-based Greenwood, a financial platform with banking services and a community for Black and Latino individuals and business owners, is growing with its fourth acquisition since the start of 2022. This week Greenwood acquired Kinly, an Atlanta-based neobank for direct deposit funds and cash back rewards. Kinly joins The Gathering
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Since 2020, the State of Georgia has created well over 27,000 jobs in the electric vehicle industry. That number is only set to grow, thanks to startups like EnviroSpark building in Atlanta. The husband and wife team behind EnviroSpark, Aaron and Stephanie Luque, have grown their team from 15
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A few weeks ago, Gimme co-founder Cory Hewett announced that he would be stepping down as CEO of the vending startup to pursue new entrepreneurial interests. Co-founder Evan Jarecki will be stepping up as the chief executive. Gimme is a startup that has been featured several times over the years
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You may know Chattanooga as “Gig City”, a nickname earned because of its fast community-wide internet speed and growing tech business community. But you may soon know it as a hub for quantum computing and emerging quantum technologies. The city, with the help of its local universities and its local
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The downturn in the venture capital landscape nationally hasn’t deterred one of the Southeast’s most active firms, VentureSouth, from placing bets in local startups. In fact, it’s actually a good time to be deploying capital, says VentureSouth’s co-founder and managing director Charlie Banks. Companies like Mailchimp,
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The next big thing in virtual reality (VR) may have just been born on the campus of Georgia Tech. Over 400 students, representing 9 countries and 49 universities, flocked to Georgia Tech in early April to compete in ImmerseGT, a three-day VR hackathon. In partnership with Startup Exchange and GTXR,
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"For the most part, the best you can do in grad school is that [your work] gets published," Laura Stoy said. “A lot of time science doesn't leave the lab." But that wasn’t enough for Stoy, who saw a major market opportunity within her
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Q1 2023 was certainly one for the record books. More tech companies joined the growing list of firms to lay off talent. 157,000 tech jobs across the country were eliminated over the first three months of the year. 1,500 of those jobs were directly connected to Southeast-founded companies,
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Mental health startups represent the fastest growing tech sector in 2023, according to VC firm a16z. These ventures are addressing an urgent problem, as the CDC reports the percentage of US adults with signs of anxiety or depressive disorders has risen dramatically over the last three years. The numbers are
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Scott Matthews will be getting some serious airline miles in the near future. The New York-based executive was just officially named the new CEO of Verusen, an Atlanta-based supply chain startup. Matthews told Hypepotamus that he is dedicated to scaling the business from Atlanta, and he will begin commuting down
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Supply chain startups were the darlings of the VC world for the last several years, with firms increasing year-over-year investment in the space by 80% between 2020 and 2021. Now that the pandemic-fueled ecommerce craze has slowed and ports are back to business after months of backlogs, funding has dipped