This week, Attorney Generals from the U.S. and Mexico will unveil a new system for finding victims of the human trafficking industry — a shadowy, hard-to-track criminal system that captures millions each year. The system will employ facial recognition data, pulled from photos that families of missing individuals can submit, to build a shared database […]
Eyes across the South have been watching Seattle over the past months in hopes of an Amazon “HQ2” announcement — many believe that the e-commerce and tech giant’s choice of where to place its second headquarters would signify not only a large economic development project, but also indicate the imminent tech leadership of the city […]
Digital hospitality self-service platform QikServe has announced the opening of their North American headquarters in Atlanta. Based in the United Kingdom, the company provides in-store self-service solutions for the whole customer experience, from ordering to payment, for hospitality operators like restaurants and hotels. “While we are primarily focused on serving the whole North American market from our […]
A report, released today, by an Atlanta-based startup incubator focused on Black and Latinx female entrepreneurs found that, while black women founders are still funded at disproportionally low amounts, funding has increased substantially in the past year. The research also showed that the number of black female founders who have raised at least $1 million […]
The Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), Georgia Tech’s state-funded startup incubator, will launch a Healthtech-focused industry vertical program with a gift of a “significant amount” from Blue Cross Blue Shield-owned health IT company NASCO. This will be ATDC’s third industry program following the launch of fintech in 2016 and retail tech in 2017. ATDC’s Interim General […]