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Maija Ehlinger

Atlanta, GA

Born and raised in Southern California, Maija has been in Atlanta since 2010. She is a graduate of Emory University and the Columbia Journalism School's Lede Program for data journalism.

This Atlanta Startup Is Turning E-Trikes Into Rolling Digital Billboards

This Atlanta Startup Is Turning E-Trikes Into Rolling Digital Billboards

ATLANTA, July 9 (Hypepotamus) – Atlanta’s busiest streets are turning into high-value advertising real estate. This summer, the Beltline, Midtown, Buckhead, downtown, and the areas around Mercedes-Benz Stadium are filled up with festival crowds, World Cup fans, tourists, and locals moving through the city. For brands, that foot

Meet the Atlanta Startup Taking on Bots, Deepfakes, And Online Identity Problems

Meet the Atlanta Startup Taking on Bots, Deepfakes, And Online Identity Problems

ATLANTA, July 9 (Hypepotamus) – What’s real on the internet anymore? AI “slop” was so ubiquitous in our social media feeds so much last year that it was the Merriam-Webster’ word of the year. CAPTCHA is obsolete, making it harder to really determine who is real…and what is

The Way We Share Links Is Outdated. This Atlanta Startup Has an AI-Focused Fix.

The Way We Share Links Is Outdated. This Atlanta Startup Has an AI-Focused Fix.

ATLANTA, July 7 (Hypepotamus) – Kyle Hudson believes your website…no matter how flashy…is already obsolete. His fix to this digital decay problem? Stacklist, an Atlanta-based startup that lets individuals and businesses organize everything they want to share (resources, recommendations, playlists, local knowledge, portfolios) into curated collections other people

Atlanta Startup Agentix Wants To Bring Checkout Into AI Chat

Atlanta Startup Agentix Wants To Bring Checkout Into AI Chat

ATLANTA, July 6 (Hypepotamus) – Commerce won’t start with a search. It will start with a prompt, says Atlanta entrepreneur Hussain Punjani. That’s the future that Punjani is looking to build with Agentix, a recently-launched startup creating the infrastructure to let shoppers complete a purchase right from their

The world needs faster chip design. Falcomm is proving Atlanta has the engineering muscle to build it.

The world needs faster chip design. Falcomm is proving Atlanta has the engineering muscle to build it.

ATLANTA (June 29) Hypepotamus – There’s an office on Peachtree Street in Midtown Atlanta where a team of engineers are rewriting the rules of wireless communication and the chips that drive our modern world. That team is with Falcomm, a fast-growing fabless semiconductor startup whose products are designed to

Bullion, A New Atlanta FinTech, Tackles the Business Banking Gap for African and Latin American Startups

Bullion, A New Atlanta FinTech, Tackles the Business Banking Gap for African and Latin American Startups

ATLANTA (July 1) Hypepotamus – Raise venture capital in USD. Then start building globally. That is a playbook international tech founders often follow, says Atlanta-based entrepreneur Joshua Afolabi (seen in featured photo above). But the pain starts the minute that money hits their account. “Startups operating across Africa and Latin

Birmingham’s Sloss Tech Shows The Magic City’s Startup Ecosystem Is Ready To Scale

Birmingham’s Sloss Tech Shows The Magic City’s Startup Ecosystem Is Ready To Scale

BIRMINGHAM (June 30) Hypepotamus – “Sloss” carries a bit of magic in the City of Birmingham, Alabama. Sloss Furnaces was one of the early companies that put “The Magic City” on the map as an industrial and machinery hub seemingly overnight. Today, the word Sloss holds a different meaning for the