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A year ago my friend Muriel Vega, Hypepotamus’ former managing editor, invited me to coffee at Little Tart Bakeshop in Atlanta’s Summerhill neighborhood to discuss an editorial position at the…

Hypepotamus is looking for freelance tech and business reporters to help cover the tech scene across the Southeast! Ideal candidates have 2+ years experience in tech or business journalism, and…

When Nova Scota Business Inc. wanted to connect local Canadian startups with US investors and partnership opportunities, they first went to Boston and set up Scale-up Hub Cambridge. Their second…

Atlanta entrepreneur Seth Radman has hit another high note in the MusicTech space.  A little over two years after his startup Crescendo was acquired by Ultimate Guitar, one of his…

News that Macquarium is joining Synoptek is the start of a new chapter for one of the “OG” tech-focused service companies in Atlanta. But there are earlier chapters in the…

A walk around Inspire Brands’ Innovation Hub in Sandy Springs is a uniquely tasty experience. The center opened in 2021 as a way to test out new technologies that could…

Zeba Parkar is proof you can build a career out of your hobby. She initially moved to the US and landed in the Midwest for a Ph.D. in material sciences…

Jim Schimpf saw the problems with recruiting hourly workforce employees long before any talk of the Great Resignation.  He was a senior recruiter for TEKsystems, one of the largest IT…

‘User-friendly cybersecurity’ isn’t a phrase you’ve likely to run into often. There’s a reason for that, says otto Chief Product Officer Chad Fowler. “The cybersecurity industry not only tolerates [things…

Move over Gmail. The team behind Telios believes they have an answer to all of our email woes and have created a safer, more robust email service that is better…

Calm Mattier, a Georgia Tech physics graduate turned teacher turned developer, is stepping into the CTO role for the fast-growing Atlanta startup Lillii RNB Inc. That team, which includes the…

Atlanta has attracted international tech talent over the years, including most recently Serge Kadjo, an industrial engineer, entrepreneur, and self-proclaimed “idea converter.”  His ideas have taken him across four continents…

You’d be hardpressed to find a tech company recently that doesn’t explicitly mention the local young talent pool as the main reason for setting up shop in the State of…

Atlanta’s cloud supply chain company Stord has been a hot ticket for investors over the last 16 months.  The team has raised $155 million between its Series C in March…

Navigating the local elections can feel like a full-time job during midterm and primary seasons. But just listening to TV ads or reading postcards mailed from different candidates won’t give…

New QR codes are popping up on streets across Atlanta. While they aren’t part of any public art project or guerrilla marketing campaign, the team behind the effort believes these…

“Professional Plant Girl” and UGA student Kristen Dunning said she became an “entrepreneur by accident” after handing out soap at different horticulture research seminars.   As an undergraduate in horticultural sciences,…

The team behind Atlanta-based Charityvest believes it is time to innovate the philanthropic space.  That means creating a FinTech solution that “delivers dollars to charities faster and more easily and…

When T.C. Whittaker started Audit Sight last year, he and his co-founder Jonathan Womack knew what the startup’s first guiding principle would be: “Everything we build must eliminate work for…

When Lillii RNB Inc. launched Freeing Returns several years back, e-commerce fraud was already wreaking havoc on retailers of all sizes. But as COVID made e-commerce a more central part…