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Beyond moving 275,000 passengers a day, Hartfield-Jackson International Airport is home to a new set of TravelTech entrepreneurs. One such founder is Veronica Woodruff, who joined the startup world after working in the airline industry as a flight attendant. She saw first-hand the gap in services available for travelers
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Georgia State grad Robert Hatcher recognized an inherent problem in the music industry while building his previous startup, Soundcollide. The home recording studio startup was designed to help artists work on songs from different locations. “Music is collaborative,” Hatcher told Hypepotamus. “But we saw from our studio that publishing rights
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EventTech was a natural fit for Conway Solomon. As a tech enthusiast, he started working at his brother’s New Orleans-based event production company back in high school and the space immediately pulled him in. “I found that the event world had so many variables,” Solomon told Hypepotamus. “Every festival
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Between platforms like YouTube, Instagram, Twitch, and Patreon, creatives have a lot of ways to get their content out online. That creates a lot of data to sort through. Nashville-based brothers Jason Burchard and Jeremy Burchard wanted to help artists, content creators, and musicians better organize and analyze data created
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The 16 Atlanta-based companies in the Fortune 500 are giants in the transportation, logistics, finance, and manufacturing spaces. The latest Atlanta company to join the list, Global Payments, has long been powering credit and debit card transactions across the globe. But its next move is a little closer to home.
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An international affairs major using a laser cutter to start a small business. A physics professor showing off his favorite video game. An art student getting ready to deploy an app she built. A group sketching out ways to make MARTA more appealing to students across the Atlanta University Center.
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Kelly Gay may be the first woman to win the Imlay Leadership Award, an honor given each year by the Technology Executives Roundtable to one leader in Georgia’s high-tech community. But her dedication to building a stronger and more inclusive Atlanta technology scene all but ensures she will not
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When Roadie first hit the streets, founder Marc Gorlin saw an opportunity to create a logistics marketplace that was somewhat of a “UPS, eBay and Airbnb spun together.” Seven years later, Roadie is now officially under the UPS banner. The road to acquisition looks different for every startup. But from
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It was the Downtown Atlanta skyline that first captured Sherilyn Francis’ heart. “I happened to come to Atlanta one day on a whim and when I saw the cityscape driving through downtown...it was absolutely beautiful and said I have to move here,” she told Hypepotamus. Move she did, and
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Let’s say you’re a lawyer. You have the day off. And you’re headed to do something fun, like golf or croquet. Then, you get a phone call. You look at the caller ID. It’s your client -- Steve. And you know that any call with Steve
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After navigating COVID shutdowns, companies of all sizes are now dealing with “The Great Resignation.” The latest job numbers suggest nearly 3% of the American workforce resigned during the month of August alone. That has created a unique opportunity for tech companies looking for ways to attract and retain top
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Long before catching the eye of Andreessen Horowitz investors or deploying its technology nationally, Flock Safety’s founding team was thinking about company culture. That piqued the interest of veteran recruiter and Emory graduate Aynn Collins, who first met Flock’s young team over three years ago when she was