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Hypepotamus is the Southeast's leading startup and tech publication. Since 2011, we've covered the founders, investors, and ecosystem builders shaping Atlanta, Nashville, Charlotte, and beyond, bringing news, funding rounds, founder spotlights, and job listings all in one place.

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Meet the Fintech CEO Steering Atlanta’s Next Billion-Dollar Business

Priority, a publicly traded fintech company (NASDAQ: PRTH) founded in 2005 and headquartered in Alpharetta, is approaching $1 billion in annual revenue while processing over $130 billion in payments for more than one million customers. CEO Tom Priore has steered the company through multiple acquisitions and organic growth, positioning Priority among Atlanta's elite fintech firms.

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Priority, a publicly traded fintech company (NASDAQ: PRTH) founded in 2005 and headquartered in Alpharetta, is approaching $1 billion in annual revenue while processing over $130 billion in payments for more than one million customers. CEO Tom Priore has steered the company through multiple acquisitions and organic growth, positioning Priority among Atlanta's elite fintech firms.

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fintech · payments · atlanta · priority-payments · revenue-growth · ceo-profile · commerce-infrastructure

Key entities

Tom Priore (person, 0.98) · Maija Ehlinger (person, 0.9) · Priority (organization, 0.99) · Equifax (organization, 0.85) · Global Payments (organization, 0.85) · Finxera (organization, 0.8) · Plastiq (organization, 0.8) · Cynergy Data (organization, 0.8) · Hypepotamus (organization, 0.75) · Atlanta (location, 0.97) · Alpharetta (location, 0.95) · Chandigarh, India (location, 0.9) · NASDAQ: PRTH (technology, 0.85) · payments infrastructure (concept, 0.9) · working capital optimization (concept, 0.75)

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analysis · language en · status final

Provenance

claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 9 Jul 2026