Atland Ventures is thrilled to announce our investment into Availyst! Availyst is a food discovery platform that helps consumers find their food. The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed the way we interact with and search for food. In 2022, over 60% of consumers utilized mobile ordering at least once a week, and 31% ordered more [...]
Encased in glass within BetterYou’s new office space is a Sony Magic Link, one of the first historical attempts at creating what we now refer to as a ‘smartphone.’ The 1994 device, intended to have a limited number of features like the phone or notebook applications, is also one of CEO Sean Higgins’ favorite features [...]
Take a look at the picture above. What comes to mind? If your guess was “an oil painting of a happy raccoon taking a selfie while surfing a massive wave into the sunset,” you would be correct! This one of a kind picture was generated by DALL-E 2, a machine learning (ML) model developed by [...]
The explosion of grocery & food delivery in 2020, magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic, drove retailers who had not yet fully implemented the necessary infrastructure to pivot on an unforgiving timeline. Some were unprepared for the volume of demand for online orders, slashing store and restaurant retail space into ramshackle half-baked outposts for pickup/delivery orders [...]
