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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.

Catching Up With Danti And Its New AI Intelligence Platform

Catching Up With Danti And Its New AI Intelligence Platform

ATLANTA, July 31 (Hypepotamus) - Hypepotamus first wrote about Danti in 2023, was coming out of stealth with its searchable earth-observation data in national defense. Three years later, the platform looks less like a search engine and more like an analyst team that never sleeps. This week, the venture-backed

A Georgia Urgent Care System Is Using AI To Handle 20,000 Billing Calls A Month

A Georgia Urgent Care System Is Using AI To Handle 20,000 Billing Calls A Month

ATLANTA, July 30 (Hypepotamus) - Piedmont Urgent Care, the largest urgent care network in Georgia that is managed through a joint venture partnership with WellStreet Urgent Care, has replaced its billing voicemail system with an AI agent named Pete. The agent now handles more than 20,000 patient billing calls a

Homegrown Is Building The Online Farmers Market Shopify Never Built

Homegrown Is Building The Online Farmers Market Shopify Never Built

ATLANTA, July 29 (Hypepotamus) - Local bakers, ranchers, and cottage food makers have long relied on Instagram DMs and Venmo to run their businesses. Homegrown wants to replace that patchwork with an online storefront…and one that actually helps people shop more locally. Building A Storefront & A Marketplace On the

AI Spending Is Outpacing ROI, Industry Leaders Warn

AI Spending Is Outpacing ROI, Industry Leaders Warn

July 29 (Hypepotamus) - Over a coffee a few months ago in Midtown, a CEO told me they had stopped plans to hire another junior-level developer. Instead, they were seeing how far the team could get with everyone’s new favorite co-worker: Claude Code. But what happened three months

How Passport Built A Culture That Turned Employees Into Founders.

How Passport Built A Culture That Turned Employees Into Founders.

Passport’s most consequential product for Charlotte may not be parking software. It may be the people who learned inside the company how to build, finance, and scale technology businesses—and then took that knowledge into the region’s next generation of startups.

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In Asheville, A New Path Forward To Fund Startup Businesses Is Emerging

Asheville, July 24 (HYPEPOTAMUS) - Give away equity or take on debt financing. Those have been the typical routes founders who need money to scale can take. But a new fund up in Asheville, North Carolina, called Optimist Ventures, has a different idea…one that its CEO says can be a

How A Metro Atlanta Museum Is Preserving—and Bringing to Life—Tech History

How A Metro Atlanta Museum Is Preserving—and Bringing to Life—Tech History

ROSWELL, GA, July 23 (Hypepotamus) - Inside a Roswell storefront, more than 2,000 artifacts tell the story of how Apple grew from a California startup into one of the world’s most influential technology companies. The Mimms Museum of Technology and Art holds one of the largest private collections of

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