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Teclaz Is Making Website Insights Accessible for All Businesses
Small businesses make up 99.9% of US companies and drive 43.5% of the national GDP. Yet modern analytics tools have largely passed them by. Today 68% of Google searches end without a click, and more than half surface AI overviews. For a small business, that means the traffic numbers owners see may look nothing like the customers they actually reach. Few can afford to guess wrong. Teclaz answers the question every owner asks: who is my traffic?
Beyond Lithium: Why the Next Innovation Race Is About Energy Ecosystems, Not Just Better Batteries
Artificial intelligence (AI) has dominated headlines over the past few years. Advances in foundation models, increasingly powerful computing hardware, and rapid improvements in AI capabilities have fueled excitement about the future of technology. Yet while much of the conversation about technology focuses on computation, a quieter transformation is taking place in parallel: energy storage is becoming one of the defining technologies of the coming decade.
A Goodreads for Gear: How Bluubird Is Changing the Way You Find Your Gear
For years, Katie Begando bought the same running shoes without trying them on. But during her half marathon training, a redesigned model left her frustrated. After reading blogs and trying multiple pairs, she realized she just wanted to talk to someone like herself, who shares her needs and preferences. That frustration led to the creation of Bluubird.
Kintic: Two 19-Year-Olds Building the Data Layer for Humanoid Robots
Kavya Mohankumar and Pranavi Gogineni’s startup journey started on an evening bus ride as college students. As they talked, a bigger question emerged: What do you see yourself doing in the future? Today, they are co-founders and CEOs of Kintic, which provides training data for humanoid robots. But Kintic wasn’t what they originally set out to build. Their first stop? Three pivots.
Esco Eats Turned a Pie into an Experience
While Esco Eats built its reputation on a single dessert, their World Famous Apple Cobbler PIE, the company’s CEO and co-founder, Anita Lamb, sees the pie as a means rather than an end. “It’s an experience and a tool to engage people and build community. The pie is a vehicle.”
This Researcher Is Decoding Thailand's AI Story
When Thailand's government wrote artificial intelligence into its national roadmap, TSRB researcher Ploypilin Pruekcharoen started reading the news differently. She has spent the past year collecting and analyzing more than 100 Thai news articles about AI in tourism. Her question is simple: when a country stakes part of its economic future on artificial intelligence, how does its press explain that technology to the public, and who gets left out of the story?
Listening to Georgia's Data Centers
When Sylvia Janicki set out to record the noise of Atlanta's data centers, she expected to find it everywhere. News stories described nearby communities living with constant humming, roaring generators and sleepless nights. So she drove to roughly 10 hyperscale facilities around metro Atlanta, the massive campuses built to power artificial intelligence and hit record.
Meet Maestro for a More Connected Tech Square
Tech Square is full of people you'd want to know and mostly haven't met yet. Maestro is a new ecosystem connection platform built to help you find and reach the right people across the community, whether that's a co-founder, a collaborator, or just the person who runs your trail every morning.
Voyage Health Wants to Answer Healthcare's Most Common Question
Anish Cheekati spent years on the pre-med track, gaining experience as a medical assistant and volunteering in clinics. His plans shifted after working with patients who often struggled to manage their various medications without guidance. This inspired him to create Voyage Health, a free AI-powered health guidance platform.
These Georgia Students Are Asking Teens to Pause for Five Seconds Before Scrolling
When high school students, Pranshu Raithatha and Harsh Mehta, needed to focus on their coursework, they realized they were scrolling on social media apps. After trying application after application, they asked a behavioral design question to explore the root of the challenge of focused attention as they set out to build Mivo Scrolling: “Can a brief pause at the exact moment someone opens social media help turn an impulse into an intentional choice?”
Ten Sparrows Builds AI Agents So Atlanta Businesses Don't Get Left Behind
Earlier this year, Hypepotamus covered ATDC’s push to become a launchpad for Georgia-based AI companies. One of the companies building currently inside ATDC isn’t just building AI tools. They are a team ensuring organizations don’t get left behind in the AI Age.
How Technology and User-Centered Design Are Making Kitchen Cabinets Cognitively Friendly
To help adults with mild cognitive impairment maintain independence, quality of life, and prepare meals, what may seem like an obvious solution of either removing kitchen cabinet doors or labeling may not be the best option. This gap and Ibrahim Bilau’s evidence-based and human-centered research highlight why it is so important to engage with community members living with mild cognitive impairment and their care partners.
Tech Square Interns Gather for Summer Networking Luncheon
Summer interns from across Tech Square came together last week at The Clubhouse for a luncheon designed to help them connect, unwind, and learn more about the work happening across the district.
A Leaner, Sharper Second Act for Georgia Tech's Food and Beverage Accelerator
When the Georgia Tech Food and Beverage Accelerator (GT.FBA) launched its first cohort in January 2025, the program set out to help food and beverage entrepreneurs take their products from home kitchens to retail shelves. One year later, the results speak for themselves.
Turkish Shuttle Technology Makes Debut in Atlanta With Beltline Pilot
A Turkish electric shuttle technology has made its U.S. debut on the Atlanta Beltline with the launch of a pilot project linking the transformative trail project and MARTA’s established rail network.