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Christy Brown LaunchPad2X

Christy Brown Becomes New Launchpad2X President

In an announcement that speaks to the women's entrepreneurial organization's core principles and mission, LaunchPad2X USA has announced that Christy Brown has been named president. “I cannot be more fortunate to join Launchpad2X’s team as it aligns with my mission and passion around female-led companies

William Warren The Sketch Effect

Coronavirus Startup Survival Stories: William Warren of The Sketch Effect

The novel coronavirus COVID-19 is impacting businesses across the globe, including Southern startups. We want to know how you're being affected, as a startup founder, employee, investor or general member of the community. We're publishing selected stories sent directly from you, only making edits where necessary

Thad Oviatt Parkent Cycles

Coronavirus Startup Survival Stories: Thad Oviatt of Parkent Cycles

The novel coronavirus COVID-19 is impacting businesses across the globe, including Southern startups. We want to know how you're being affected, as a startup founder, employee, investor or general member of the community. We're publishing selected stories sent directly from you, only making edits where necessary

Shila Nieves Burney

Shila Nieves Burney Challenges Perceptions With The Zane Venture Fund

Shila Nieves Burney has had enough of being rebuffed, although she doesn’t fear it. “I’m a lot older than the typical entrepreneur,” she quips. But righteous indignation seeps through her voice as she relates tale after tale of talented founders of color being denied investment opportunities. Some, she

Nammy Vedire

Dr. Nammy Vedire: Yale-Taught Engineer, Visual Artist, Platform Builder, Possible Superwoman

“When you’re really being challenged, what can you bring to bear?” That’s a question Dr. Nammy Vedire, director of platform and operations at Atlanta-based VC group Engage, says she asks herself regularly. Vedire says that the arts played just as important a formative role in her life as

Jewel Burks Solomon

Exclusive: Atlanta-Based Entrepreneur Jewel Burks Solomon named Head of Google For Startups, U.S.

Atlanta tech entrepreneur Jewel Burks Solomon has been named head of Google for Startups for the U.S., Hypepotamus has confirmed. Solomon is not only the first African-American woman to have this title — a highly significant matter in itself — but she is also the first person to ever hold the