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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…

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…

Long before COVID made telemedicine central to our healthcare system, Savannah-based Corstrata saw opportunities to innovate and lead in the virtual space.  We last caught up with Corstrata back in…

When Hypepotamus chatted with Jack Griffin in 2017, the University of Michigan student was building FoodFinder, a geo-location website and database of food banks, to help tackle food insecurity.  The…

It started with a conversation between friends about reducing injuries and deaths in the firefighting community. But after scaling the concept through the Create-X Idea-2-Prototype class at Georgia Tech and…

Agriculture is Georgia’s oldest and largest industry, but it might not be the industry where “innovation” is top of mind.  A growing number of entrepreneurs across the state and the…

Being home to the “Flooring Capital of the World,” North Georgia carpet is found in homes across the country.  Now a team of Georgia-based entrepreneurs and veterans of the flooring…

Before bringing his startup to the sky, Matt Sloane knew how to make headlines. Sloane worked at CNN for 14 years, a majority of which was spent as a medical…