Atlanta Startup Convos : February Meetup

On February 16, 2022, we hosted our first Atlanta Startup Convos of 2022. We were joined by three fantastic founders!

Every 6-8 weeks, Atlanta Ventures hosts an Atlanta Startup Convos Meetup. Three early stage startups shared their 7 minute story of how they started, how they are monetizing, and how they are scaling.

We kicked off the morning with virtual Breakout Room networking sessions. The question to get everything going was “If you could start a podcast what would it be?”

This month’s presenter lineup was stellar: Ben Miller, CEO of Athlete Analytics; Chad Hickey, Founder & CEO of Givsly; Kendra Ward, Co-Founder of unboXT.

Athlete Analytics

Athlete Analytics is a performance platform that provides actionable insights on how athletes can improve and allows for measurable stats tracking. The platform also has a social aspect that allows athletes to stack themselves up against their peers. Currently Athlete Analytics covers lacrosse, golf, and baseball, but the technology can be helpful for any sport.

“Our software automatically provides actionable insights on how to improve.”— Ben Miller, CEO of Athlete Analytics

Givsly

Givsly is a values-driven marketing platform that uses people’s desires to give back as a way to achieve marketing results and business outcomes. They’ve recognized a cultural shift from material to meaningful interactions — gift cards, corporate swag, and client happy hours are becoming less effective. Meaningful marketing gets the same business outcomes while fulfilling social commitments. Givsly has already created better outcomes with companies like Reddit and NBCU.

“Our mission here is to increase and create meaningful business outcomes wherever marketing and sales teams need it.”— Chad Hickey, Founder & CEO of Givsly

unboXT

unboXT is the people platform that turns managers into leaders. They enable deeper team connections by providing leaders with personalized, snackable recommendations to improve team motivation, morale, and performance. Employees complete 3-second surveys that give data on team morale — driving supervisors to have 2-4 more meaningful conversations and producing a 12% increase in team motivation and morale in the first six months.

“We’ve seen a 12% increase in team motivation and team morale in the first six months of using unboXT.”— Kendra Ward, Co-Founder of unboXT