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Midwest, Southeast Investors Back Wedding Floral Startup Poppy

Midwest, Southeast Investors Back Wedding Floral Startup Poppy

Jewelry companies are predicting a rise in engagements in 2024, as more post-pandemic couples are looking to tie the knot. That rise in proposals – and the number of weddings to follow – brings a big opportunity for Poppy, a Techstars Atlanta graduate innovating the floral industry through its tech-enabled

Inclusively Wants To Help Your Team Rethink The Hiring Process

Inclusively Wants To Help Your Team Rethink The Hiring Process

For Charlotte Dales, access to talent isn’t a pipeline problem. But companies have to start rethinking their hiring process if they want to create a strong employee base. “Everyone has come to think that to increase diversity all you need is access to pipeline. But that's taking

Meet The 10 Social Impact Startups Selected For Techstars' Next Cohort

Meet The 10 Social Impact Startups Selected For Techstars' Next Cohort

Atlanta has been at the epicenter of the civil and human rights movement for decades. That made it the perfect place to launch Cox Enterprises Social Impact Accelerator, powered by Techstars. Led by Barry Givens, the program just announced its 2nd cohort. The ten selected startups come from across the

Meet the Tech-Focused Team Tipping The Scales of The Waste Industry

Meet the Tech-Focused Team Tipping The Scales of The Waste Industry

Entrepreneurs often turn every nook and cranny of a home or garage into a space for product testing or experimentation. For the team behind WasteWizer, the pandemic turned a co-founder’s backyard pool area into a prime lab spot for figuring out how to weigh tons of trash. WasteWizer

Atlanta-based Rubicon’s 2nd Year of Trick or Trash Helps Recycle Candy Wrappers

Atlanta-based Rubicon’s 2nd Year of Trick or Trash Helps Recycle Candy Wrappers

Perhaps the scariest thing about Halloween is the amount of plastic waste left over from discarded candy wrappers. Americans purchase more than 600 million pounds of Halloween each year. Since most curbside recycling services are unable to recycle candy wrappers, thousands of pounds of waste ends up in landfills or

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