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Bank Shot, an Atlanta-based FinTech startup focused on improving the real estate earnest money process, has tapped Emily Traxler as its new CEO. Traxler brings her work in software startups and customer success experience to the real estate tech company. She is taking over from the startup’s founders Bernardine
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Endurance athletes measure everything. From sleep to heart rate to food intake, logging key insights can help the pros reach peak performance. But Atlanta-based Phil Southerland knew that such tracking had its limits. As a professional cyclist and co-founder of Team Novo Nordisk, Southerland recognized there was no way to
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The Southeast is power-hungry. At least when it comes to proving its clout as an EnergyTech hub. Startups — with the help of academic partners, corporate innovation programs, and pure grit — grew the Southeast’s renewable energy ecosystem over the past decade. As the national conversation focuses on funding new energy
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Atlanta’s Kenyon Hall is looking to bridge the digital divide. An electronics engineer by training, Hall is now the founder and CEO of SOIL, a CleanTech hardware and software startup improving power and connectivity infrastructure. His work is helping communities from rural Georgia all the way to The Gambia.
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With metro Atlanta becoming the home of many technology companies and startups, it makes perfect sense to have a place where people and professionals can learn different practices involving cybersecurity. At least, that is what Jovonni Pharr, 32, an Atlanta-based scientist and engineer, thought while working as a data scientist
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Let’s talk about bad breath. We’ve all experienced the unpleasant situation of sitting next to someone with bad breath or being stuck in public without a breath mint ourselves. But, as George Yu, PhD. told Hypepotamus, bad breath is not just an inconvenience — it can actually tell a
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Kathryn O’Day has spent more than a decade helping grow some of Atlanta’s biggest startup successes. Now, she’s joining the Atlanta Ventures team to help invest in the next generation of founders coming out of the city and the region. O’Day, a self-described “proud Atlantan,” went
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TTV Capital has tapped a new partner as the firm grows its investments in the FinTech space. Neil Kapur brings both an operating and FinTech investing background to the Atlanta-based firm. Relocating from his current base in San Francisco, the new role at TTV is a homecoming of sorts for
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What started as a weekend for tech employees to give back has grown into an international movement to bring non-profits into the digital space. As the name implies, the non-profit organization 48in48 aims to build 48 websites over the course of each 48 hour-long hack-a-thon. Sima Parekh, the group'
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Both as a C-Suite executive and a non-profit board member, Dani Cushion has made quite the impact on the Atlanta technology community since moving here in 2015. She served as Chief Marketing Officer of Cardlytics, the Atlanta-based purchase-based financial services company that went public back in 2018. She’s also
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Vicky Kennedy had a vision of what Atlanta-based Intellum needed to grow. So she created and pitched the role of Chief Strategy Officer. “I have this history in my career of pitching the role before it's there," Kennedy told Hypepotams. "I write it out and say
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Hypepotamus got to catch up virtually this week with Sharon Harris, Atlanta’s latest transplant. Harris is Chief Marketing Officer at Jellyfish, a London-based AdTech and MarTech digital agency focusing on providing technology, strategy, and training. Jellyfish already has a presence in 20 countries across 40 offices, but Harris is