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2021 was the year of fintech. One out of every five venture dollars invested went into the sector, according to CB Insights. Fintech M&A, IPOs, and exits nearly doubled year-over-year as well. 2022 has been a bit of a rockier time for fintechs, prompted by the general VC
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The latest additions to the Atlanta BeltLine are all about getting down to business. The BeltLine MarketPlace is the city’s first small business incubator designed to support minority and women-owned businesses with access to both business coaching and crucial retail space along some of the most highly-trafficked walking areas
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Jasmine Crowe set out to change how communities eat. Since launching Atlanta-based Goodr in 2017 as a sustainable surplus food management platform, she’s become known for her external work helping connect people with food, creating community food banks, and tackling the logistical challenges that create hunger. To date, Goodr
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Growing up in a designated food desert inspired Mark Peterson to focus on logistics needed to help underserved shoppers manage healthy and affordable meals for their families. He launched Ziscuit to do just that. Peterson describes Ziscuit as a “grocery shopping platform and reverse auction marketplace.” Consumers post their lists
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ATDC has felt like home to Alex Rhodeen for some time now. After moving to Atlanta in 2013, he found his way to the startup incubator in Midtown as he helped build up the last-mile logistics startup Kanga as its chief operating officer. Now in 2022, Rhodeen is returning to
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Communication is difficult in any workplace, but the co-founders behind Prokeep recognized that it was a particular problem for those working in construction. Jack Carrere, McKay Johnson, and Mark Kanof noticed this when they started working more with contractors for various home improvement projects. Ultimately, the team saw a need
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It started with whispers in offices, during company happy hours, and in Zoom meetings. The startup success wave had been good — great, really — for tech ventures that raised record funding rounds at sky-high valuations. From HealthTech to WorkTech to FinTech, startups were solving some of the biggest challenges facing our
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With 135 current team members on its payroll, Bark Technologies has more than doubled its headcount over the last two years. Now, the Atlanta-based team is nearly doubling the amount of outside investment it has in on its books. Bark announced this week the close of a $30 million Series
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‘User-friendly cybersecurity’ isn’t a phrase you’ve likely to run into often. There’s a reason for that, says otto Chief Product Officer Chad Fowler. “The cybersecurity industry not only tolerates [things that aren’t user friendly], I think it welcomes it,” Fowler told Hypepotamus. “I think there is
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Nicole Toole, a recent graduate from Georgia State and CEO of Conserve Innovations, knows firsthand that students want to take care of the planet. But a lack of education and resources makes it hard to really understand what it takes to be more sustainable on campus. “It's not
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You’d be hardpressed to find a tech company recently that doesn’t explicitly mention the local young talent pool as the main reason for setting up shop in the State of Georgia. Airbnb, Nike, Google, Microsoft, and countless other household names have relocated or added offices in the city
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Atlanta’s cloud supply chain company Stord has been a hot ticket for investors over the last 16 months. The team has raised $155 million between its Series C in March 2021 and Series D in September 2021, attracting national VC firms like Kleiner Perkins, Bond, Lux Capital, and Salesforce