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This Elementary School Teacher Wants to Reduce Violence With A Literacy App
South Fulton elementary school teacher Baiyina Jihad was searching for a way to encourage less violence in classrooms. The former Teach For America educator was playing with different ideas when she...
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Let Your Ideas Take Flight: ATL Thinks! Invites Entrepreneurs to Design the...
Look up! It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s ATL Thinks! soaring into the future of aviation. ATL Thinks! is a 30-day innovation program designed to highlight Atlanta’s talented people and companies by...
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Atlanta’s ‘Intentionally Good’ Project Secures $100K From Famed Silicon...
A coalition of social impact-focused Atlanta organizations have landed a $100,000 grant from the inaugural Kapor Center Tech Done Right challenge. The grant will be used to launch the Intentionally...
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WeWork Labs Unveils First Atlanta Location With Launch Week Event
After successful rollouts in Miami and Durham, North Carolina, WeWork Labs has launched its first Atlanta location downtown today at 101 Marietta Street. Serial entrepreneur and Goodie Nation founder...
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AtlBlackTech to host virtual panel on the State of Atlanta’s Black Tech...
2020 has refocused national attention on police abuse of power, racism and issues of economic inequality in profound ways. Building off the momentum from their 2019 event, AtlBlackTech is back with its...
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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...
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Out of Over 400 Applicants, 91 Startups Set To Join Venture Atlanta’s Stage
The Southeast’s largest and most prestigious venture capital conference, Venture Atlanta, has launched several area unicorns and helped startups raised $6.5 billion in funding to date. 91 new...
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The Face of Online Shopping Is Changing, Thanks To This New ATL Team
Reflekt Me may have just moved to town, but the RetailTech startup is no stranger to the Atlanta startup ecosystem. The startup, dedicated to making e-commerce shopping a more inclusive and engaging...
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Get To Know The CEO: Joey Womack Reflects On A Decade Of Social Entrepreneurship
Diving into startups wasn’t Joey Womack’s initial career plan. He intended to follow in his father’s footsteps and become an accountant, and he was eyeing one of the Big Four firms after graduating...
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Event Recap: The State of the Black Ecoystem Summit 2024
De La Soul’s 1989 hit Me Myself and I remains an anthem for self-acceptance and individuality. In 2024, Atlanta-based nonprofit Goodie Nation and its ATL(BLK)TCH program is borrowing De La Soul’s...
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