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Raquel Robertson Built a Brand for the Square Inch the Camera Could See
By day, she works in the machinery of education. Around it, she has built Nadora Iman - a tactile answer to a distinctly digital-age question about confidence, comfort and natural hair.
Eric Sheinkop Is Betting the Internet Will Tire of Guessing
A teenage record-label founder stumbled into royalties, helped independent musicians reach Coca-Cola, and then carried the same argument into online shopping: expertise should travel farther than fame.
Timothy Sheehan Put the Allowance on a Learning Curve
A father of four turned an awkward family lesson into Greenlight. A decade later, Timothy Sheehan is still designing places where children can make small money decisions before adulthood sends the bill.
Ashfak Ahmed Is Trying to Make the Computer Disappear
By day, he keeps cloud infrastructure moving at Striim. By night, he is building SensePC around a deceptively difficult question: what if the device in front of you mattered less than the computer waiting behind it?
Jithendra Palasagaram Turned a Spreadsheet Problem Into an Exit
After 13 years inside engineering and sourcing, he knew exactly where electronics procurement broke. Part Analytics turned that operator's frustration into a design-to-procure platform - and, in January 2025, an Altium acquisition.
He Put a Meter on the Pour - Then Found the Platform
Jose Hevia spent years learning where restaurants leak time, product and money. A beer table sketched after a trip to Spain became DraftServ - and a second act built one measured pour at a time.
Reed Liggin Keeps Building for the Hospitals Technology Forgot
A pharmacist turned repeat founder, Reed Liggin has spent his career making complicated hospital technology usable for smaller providers. Three companies and two exits later, his favorite market is still the one larger vendors tend to pass by.
Anju Mathew Put Cancer Care’s Crowded Meeting on One Screen
Before AI could help a care team, someone had to fix the meeting. Mathew’s path from engineer to operator to founder explains why OncoLens began with workflow - and grew into infrastructure.
Musheer Ahmed Is Moving Healthcare’s Error Check to the Moment Before the Bill
A cybersecurity dissertation became an Atlanta company with a precise thesis: the cheapest claim error is the one that never enters the system. Now Ahmed is pushing payment integrity from forensic cleanup toward prevention at “Point Zero.”
Vijay Balasubramaniyan Is Teaching Machines to Hear the Lie
A declined credit card sent a Georgia Tech researcher hunting for truth in the noise. Fifteen years later, his old question - who is really speaking? - has become the defining riddle of synthetic media.
Dustin Walsey Learned Insurance From the Back Seat
Before Buckle became a fronting platform for MGAs, its idea was tested one ride at a time. Dustin Walsey’s route from Atlanta newspaper kid to insurance CEO is a study in listening closely, explaining simply and learning where the old categories fail.
Jonathan Clues Took the Racing Line Into Higher Ed
A British racing champion learned that the laps were only a fraction of the job. The rest - sponsorship, storytelling and earning attention - became the operating system for StudentBridge.
Alok Deshpande Built a Money Classroom for the Middle Class
He left Bain, invited six Atlantans into a room, and taught the least glamorous lesson in money: spend less than you make. Fifteen years later, that stubbornly simple idea is becoming software without losing the teacher inside it.
Adam Fish Is Building for the Moment the Network Disappears
A failed connection used to look like an error message. Fish turned it into a company - one built on the idea that phones, tablets and machines should keep working together when the cloud cannot.