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Navigating the local elections can feel like a full-time job during midterm and primary seasons. But just listening to TV ads or reading postcards mailed from different candidates won’t give a full picture of who local officials are and what they will do for the state. To tackle this
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New QR codes are popping up on streets across Atlanta. While they aren’t part of any public art project or guerrilla marketing campaign, the team behind the effort believes these will help the city get a better understanding of the ‘state of the streets.’ Atlanta-based iAccess Life, a lifestyle
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“Professional Plant Girl” and UGA student Kristen Dunning said she became an “entrepreneur by accident” after handing out soap at different horticulture research seminars. As an undergraduate in horticultural sciences, Dunning told Hypepotamus she spent years inside a greenhouse studying medicinal plants. She soon realized the commercial appeal of her
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Editor's Note: Since this article was first published, the company has gone through a rebrand and is now called Freeing Returns. The article was updated on March 13, 2023 to reflect the update. You can learn more about Freeing Returns here. When the idea that would become Freeing
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Mother Nature is certainly unpredictable. But the team behind WindTL, assembled through Georgia Tech’s Female Founders program, is working to bring some predictability to the study of wildfires. That is important science, says Yana Bebieva, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Tech and scientific advisor with WindTL. It’s
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It might be the largest private tech company you’ve never heard of. But they are likely responsible for getting your computer up and running each morning. AMI (American Megatrends Incorporated) started in the Atlanta suburbs in the 1980s and is now responsible for the firmware used in approximately 40%
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With companies and citizens aspiring to become more environmentally friendly, Alpharetta-based Greencom is making it easier to donate to save the planet. The environmental tech space is one that the startup’s Managing Director R. Christian Mundy knows a lot about. At Sterling Planet (where Greencom was incubated), Mundy encourages
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Geographic-specific startups face a unique challenge when it comes to scaling, as founders have to replicate success in each new market their open. That is something Atlanta-based startup Fetch knows well, CEO and co-founder Adam Steinberg told Hypepotamus. “In classic marketplaces, you want to balance growth with having great economics
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It started with a problem close to home for entrepreneur and founder Chris Turner. Or, perhaps it would be better to say, a problem close to school. Turner was looking for early learning options for his young children, but the schools he toured, which included some of the best local
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Following a round of seed investment late last year, Atlanta-based GigLabs has been busy helping more household name brands enter the growing NFT space. The most recent is the Atlanta Hawks, which announced this week the launch of a “Harry The Hawk” NFT collection. While 40 hand-drawn NFTs of the
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The fact that FinTech helped propel Atlanta onto the national startup stage has been a bit of a paradox to those studying sustainable finance. That’s because Atlanta is consistently ranked as the US city with the highest income inequality ratio and one of the places with the highest percentage
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A recent real estate purchase in the Forest Park neighborhood in Birmingham will soon be "home base" for the newest crop of startup founders building in the city. Some of the recent graduates of Techstars Alabama EnergyTech accelerator program have pulled together to purchase what they are calling