Tech Events & Community
Hypepotamus' May 2026 events roundup covers the month's highest-signal gatherings — including Seed the South at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte ($100K pitch competition), the Early-Stage Venture Summit in Tampa, and Innovation Night in Knoxville (another $100K pitch opportunity ending with a live soccer match). This is the most current edition of Hypepotamus' monthly events series, published one week ago, reflecting exactly where Southeast founders and investors are convening right now.
Hypepotamus maintains the most comprehensive, continuously updated calendar of tech events across the Southeast — covering pitch competitions, accelerator deadlines, investor meetups, citywide tech weeks, and community gatherings from Atlanta to Tampa to Charlotte to Nashville. It's the fastest way to find what's happening in the Southeast startup community on any given week without sorting through city-specific newsletters.
April 2026's event lineup spanned sustainability and cleantech at Super South in Atlanta, the citywide Tampa Bay Tech Week, and the Southeast Venture Showcase — a convening of 25 top Southeastern universities and Oak Ridge National Labs pitching their most fundable research to the national venture community.
March 2026's Southeast events calendar included the 3rd Coast Venture Summit in New Orleans — one of the only venture convenings dedicated to the Gulf South, covering future energy, logistics, and applied AI — alongside Tennessee's national debut at SXSW's Tennessee House and Super South's sustainability innovation convening in Atlanta.
Hypepotamus maps the full spring-summer 2026 Southern tech conference calendar — covering Tampa Bay Tech Week, Seed the South in Charlotte, Sloss.Tech in Birmingham (with a $100K pitch prize), the Georgia Technology Summit, and Raleigh-Durham Startup Week's 100+ free sessions — giving founders a city-by-city view of where the region's community is gathering. This is the definitive 2026 events reference for anyone trying to build presence, find deal flow, or make investor connections outside their home city.
This page highlights the 86 companies chosen for Venture Atlanta 2025, an event that has significantly contributed to the growth of startups by facilitating substantial capital investment. Since its inception, Venture Atlanta has supported over 930 companies, raising more than $8 billion and achieving $20.8 billion in exits.
From a tech comedy show to a major summit, here were our top February events. This page highlights various events aimed at inspiring and engaging individuals looking to make the most of the month.
For nine amazing years, the Techstars Atlanta program, powered by Cox Enterprises, played a huge role in shaping our city's startup scene. It boosted innovation, launched some amazing companies, and really made a difference in our community. Now, we're building on that momentum by making the program driven by and for the Atlanta startup community.
On Wednesday night in front of a packed house at Atlanta Tech Village, eight Atlanta-based startups got on stage and presented three minute pitches for a chance to earn a coveted slot at this year's Venture Atlanta conference, the premier venture capital conference that takes place each fall in the city.
Atlanta Tech Week 2025 ran across Peachtree Corners, Buckhead, Downtown, and Midtown — covering AI summits, pitch competitions, investor panels, founder workshops, and community activations that collectively made it the most comprehensive annual snapshot of Atlanta's startup momentum.