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Atlanta-based Greenwood isn't just here to change banking. Get to know its new community platform.

Atlanta-based Greenwood isn't just here to change banking. Get to know its new community platform.

Less than a year after opening up its waiting list, Greenwood has garnered over 100,000 individual banking customers. But customer acquisition is just one part of the success story for the Atlanta-based banking and fintech startup. Greenwood also acquired The Gathering Spot and Valence, two professional community networks,

Community banks have a new fintech friend, thanks to Tampa-based Allison

Community banks have a new fintech friend, thanks to Tampa-based Allison

When the word “disrupt” is thrown around in the startup world, it is often used by a startup founder believing their technology can dismantle an entire industry. But talk to Brian Alvarez-Bailey and you’ll soon realize that he has something different in mind when it comes to “disrupting”

Atlanta-based Collab Capital Says "I'm In" To Local Employee Scheduling App With $1M Investment

Atlanta-based Collab Capital Says "I'm In" To Local Employee Scheduling App With $1M Investment

Absenteeism continues to plague offices across the country. Illness, childcare logistics, and transportation issues are the top reasons why someone calls out of work, which ultimately wreaks havoc on a company’s bottom line. It is a particular problem for customer-facing and seasonal roles in the service sector, according

This Family of Founders Is Helping Perfect Your Job Pitch

This Family of Founders Is Helping Perfect Your Job Pitch

The meaning behind the name of Atlanta-based startup Quinn Cobbledger is personal for mother-son founding team Laura Emory Matthews and Wesley Matthews. It’s a combination of streets the family grew up on over the years. But the problem they are solving for is far too universal in

With The Suites, Founder Takes New Approach To Building A Business Community

Shimite Obialo was well aware of the statistics around Black and brown founders when she entered the VC startup space in 2017. The most recent data suggests that minority founders raised just 2.4% of all venture funding over the past six years. Obialo, a corporate finance attorney and entrepreneur,

Black Founder-Focused Collab Capital Closes First $50 Million Fund With Impressive List of LPs

Black Founder-Focused Collab Capital Closes First $50 Million Fund With Impressive List of LPs

In just over a year, Atlanta-based Collab Capital closed its $50 million inaugural fund. Collab’s founding team is Jewel Burks Solomon, Justin Dawkins, and Barry Givens. Dawkins and Givens sat down with Hypepotamus last summer to discuss the fund’s investing thesis, fostering Black innovation, and building generational

Behind The Verizon-powered Mini-Accelerator Helping Goodie Nation Founders

Behind The Verizon-powered Mini-Accelerator Helping Goodie Nation Founders

Going through an accelerator can be a rite of passage for many startups looking to build or scale a business. But a mini-accelerator? Atlanta-based Goodie Nation is teaming up with Verizon with a short-form program specifically designed to help diverse founders get marketing and communications (MarCom) training.

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