Contributors
When should a startup begin working on PR?
If you want your PR efforts to yield impactful results, start planning as early as possible.
accelerators
Your Guide To Atlanta Tech Week 2025
Join tech leaders, founders, investors, and startup enthusiasts during Atlanta Tech Week 2025 for panels, networking, workshops, and happy hours across Metro Atlanta. Discover top AI events, pitch competitions, and community highlights.
Creative Services
Forget Beach Reads: These 9 Startup Books Belong in Your Founder’s Tote
From empathetic leadership to climate-focused design, these 8 books by Southeastern founders offer powerful lessons for anyone building or leading in tech.
accelerators
Kiksasa Is Reimagining How Accelerators Operate & Build Startup Communities
After a pivot, Kiksasa’s all-in-one platform is helping accelerators, incubators, and startup programs ditch disconnected tools and scale community impact.
B2C
This ClimateTech Startup Is Taking Root in Huntsville, Alabama — With a Mission to Reforest the Planet
Huntsville-based ClimateTech startup Intrinsic Methods is revolutionizing the carbon credit market with blockchain transparency and advanced tree-planting technology—aiming to make global reforestation scalable, trackable, and impactful.
Community
How Tech Workers Are Turning Creative Side Hustles Into Real Income
The side hustle. In an era where even those with seemingly stable tech salaries feel the pinch, the quest for an extra income stream has become a near-universal pursuit. For Atlanta-based data engineer Alicia Arnold, building a side hustle started when she realized she could turn her knack for hosti
accelerators
Need To Boost Those B2B Sales Leads? This New Virtual Academy Can Help.
Behind The B2B Sales Academy is Seth Banks of TrueSeed and Ian Scott Cohen from The Founder Underground.
accelerators
Meet Avante, A New Program Empowering Rural Startup Founders
Avante, a new program from FoundersForge, is helping rural entrepreneurs gain the essential skills and support to build and scale businesses in their own communities. With a hands-on approach, this six-week bootcamp is strengthening rural ecosystems and fostering local innovation.
B2C
Atlanta's App Startup Reframe Dives Into Consumer Product World With Line Of Non-Alcoholic Beverages
To date, Pradeep said Reframe has helped more than three million people successfully cut back on drinking alcohol…and has ultimately helped people eliminate just under half a billion drinks they would have consumed.
Feature
New data is out about the state of funding for female entrepreneurs. How does the Southeast compare?
While the Southeast region largely followed the national trends when it comes to trends in VC dollars, it is worth taking a look at what is going on at the state level.
Education
Need feedback on your startup pitch? Head to ATDC on Fridays.
"Founders are welcome to explore ATDC's resources while staying connected with other local programs."
Education
Founder Talk: The Art of Making the Perfect Marketplace Match
For a little Valentine’s Day flair, founder Jonathan Dickerson describes his startup Gumption as “Tinder for Lenders.”