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Newsletter Edition #1232: The names to remember from Venture Atlanta 2026

We met a lot of new faces at Venture Atlanta and the Atlanta Startup Awards this week. If that’s how you found Hypepotamus, welcome. If you’ve been reading for years, thanks for continuing to follow us as your source for local tech news.

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Keep on scrolling to see who is hiring, which companies are on the move, and what events are happening next.

This edition of Hypepotamus is brought to you by Live Oak Bank.

The Big Headline: Venture Atlanta offered a closer look at where Southeast startups are gaining traction. Hardware companies and founders solving specific industry problems stood out across two days of pitches and conversations. Get our Venture Atlanta recap on the companies that caught attendees’ attention, the $475,000 investment winner, and what we heard beyond the stage.

Startup To Watch: It started in the Harvard Hacker House. Surrounded by entrepreneurs in Boston, Srikar Srinivasan saw friends struggling with a problem he knew firsthand: protecting an invention is expensive (his own first patent required a $15,000 loan from his parents) Now, he’s building Arcangel, a startup pairing AI-powered patent preparation with attorney review to bring costs down, from Chattanooga. Meet the Brickyard VC-backed LegalTech startup here.

Growth-Stage News: When the internet goes down, Chick-fil-A and Delta still need their tech to work. That’s where Ditto comes in. Now headquartered along Atlanta’s Beltline, the startup has tapped Matt Lohman as chief commercial officer and is preparing to bring its offline technology to AI app building. Here’s what’s next for Ditto...and its growing Atlanta team.

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