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Don’t let the name fool you. Tampa-based iink Payments is on a mission to eliminate the extra “ink” associated with the insurance industry. The problem stems around collecting signatures on physical checks. “When you get a check from the insurance company, they can oftentimes have as many as seven
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It was looking like the right time for founder Katie Hotze to start raising capital. Her startup Grocery Shopii just won Charlotte Innovation Week and she told Hypepotamus that the team had “a lot of momentum and energy.” The only problem: It was early 2020. While check writing all but
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After years of building and advising startups in Atlanta, Tim Dorr was ready to move to the other side of the investing table. The opportunity to do just that came this month with his new role in the Managing Director seat at Techstars Atlanta. He’s following in the footsteps
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A note of disclosure before we begin. The Hypepotamus team did not actually stay up for 24 hours to this story (we value our sleep). We did, however, consume lots of Punch Card drip coffee. The following is a combination of what we saw and who we met after spending
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When Hypepotamus chatted with Jack Griffin in 2017, the University of Michigan student was building FoodFinder, a geo-location website and database of food banks, to help tackle food insecurity. The problem was big then. But the pandemic only heightened the need for food assistance programs and food pantries across the
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Upwards of 38 million American workers joined “The Great Resignation” in 2021, and surveys suggest that number might only grow in 2022. What’s driving the numbers? Some fled burnout and toxic work settings. Many others were lured away by higher wages and a hot “employee market." Some people,
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Fans at a recent Atlanta Hawks’ game were wowed by more than just Trae Young’s moves, thanks to Atlanta’s growing base of AR technologists. Many of those technologists are housed in YAH (You Are Here) Agency and Georgia State’s Creative Media Industries Insitute (CMII). Those two groups
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Navigating a startup through the volatile and unpredictable media landscape is no small feat. But that’s exactly what David Rudolph has done at the helm of ATDC-graduate PlayOn! Sports, a sports media company for the high school market. The rise of streaming and subscription-based programming over the last few
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Tampa-based entrepreneur Sheffie Robinson recognized just how big the “education to industry gap” was when she was helping her son schedule out classes for his junior year of high school. Her son needed calculus to work towards his goal of becoming a mechanical engineer. But since that class wasn’t
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Tyler Lenane, Nashville-based punk rocker turned lawyer turned entrepreneur, has worked across the music industry as it transformed with the rise of streaming. Having built a career on the legal and business development teams for Apple, Beats Music, and Napster, he recognized a flaw in how streaming services developed over
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LoanWell’s office is in a prime location for a FinTech startup looking to change how small businesses access capital. The office backs up to Parrish Street in Durham, North Carolina, the historic home for the city's “Black Wall Street” and a hub for Black business. That legacy
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Atlanta Startup Village will have two new faces holding the mic when the bi-monthly pitch competition returns in late February. Christian Ross is a startup founder herself and staple within the Atlanta Tech Village community. She’ll be joined by Paraj Mathur, an investor who has a passion for esports