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ATLANTA BUSINESS NEWS · FEATURED STORY
Atlanta's Economy Defies
National Slowdown
EXCLUSIVE ANALYSIS — HOW METRO ATLANTA ADDED 42,000 JOBS IN Q2 2026 WHILE PEERS STALLED
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Featured
Stories
BUSINESS
Georgia's Largest Companies Report Record Profits as Atlanta Cements Its Role as the Southeast's Business Capital
With Fortune 500 headquarters from Coca-Cola to Delta Air Lines calling Atlanta home, metro companies collectively posted $18.4B in net income in Q2 2026 — outpacing Dallas and Charlotte by a wide margin.
August 14, 2026
LEADERSHIP
New Wave of Atlanta CEOs Reshape Corporate Culture Across the Southeast
August 13, 2026
INNOVATION
Atlanta's Tech Ecosystem Draws $2.1B in Venture Capital in First Half of 2026
August 12, 2026
BusinessCoverage
BUSINESS
Atlanta Retail Sector Rebounds with $840M in New Development Along Beltline Corridor
Aug 11, 2026
BUSINESS
Delta Air Lines Unveils $1.2B Hub Expansion at Hartsfield-Jackson, Adding 3,000 Jobs
Aug 10, 2026
BUSINESS
Coca-Cola's Atlanta Campus Upgrades Signal $300M Commitment to Georgia Operations
Aug 9, 2026
BUSINESS
Atlanta Ranks Third in U.S. for Fortune 500 Corporate Relocations in 2026
Aug 8, 2026
LeadershipProfiles
LEADERSHIP
Keisha Daniels Named CEO of SunTrust Successor as Firm Charts Digital-First Strategy
Aug 11, 2026
LEADERSHIP
Marcus Webb of WesTech Group on Building Atlanta's Next Generation of Tech Leaders
Aug 10, 2026
LEADERSHIP
How Atlanta's Top 50 CEOs Are Rewriting the Playbook on Inclusive Corporate Culture
Aug 9, 2026
LEADERSHIP
Chambers Announces New Atlanta Business Coalition to Accelerate Small Business Growth
Aug 8, 2026
InnovationTech
INNOVATION
Georgia Tech Spinout Secures $120M Series B to Scale AI-Driven Supply Chain Platform
Aug 11, 2026
INNOVATION
Atlanta Fintech Corridor Now Home to 70% of the Southeast's Payment Processing Startups
Aug 10, 2026
INNOVATION
Microsoft Selects Metro Atlanta for $800M AI Data Center Campus, Citing Infrastructure Advantage
Aug 9, 2026
INNOVATION
Emory Health and Georgia Tech Launch Joint HealthTech Accelerator with $45M Initial Fund
Aug 8, 2026
GrowthMarket
GROWTH
Midtown Atlanta's $2.4B Mixed-Use Development Boom Reshapes the City's Economic Core
Aug 11, 2026
GROWTH
SBA Reports 14% Jump in Atlanta Small Business Loan Approvals, Highest in a Decade
Aug 10, 2026
GROWTH
Atlanta Regional Commission Projects 1.2M New Residents by 2035, Fueling Demand Across Every Sector
Aug 9, 2026
GROWTH
Port of Savannah Expansion Unlocks $6B in New Supply Chain Investment for Metro Atlanta Businesses
Aug 8, 2026
Executive
Spotlights
EXECUTIVE SPOTLIGHT
Yvonne Carter, CEO, Peachtree Capital Group: 'Atlanta's Moment to Lead Is Right Now'
Yvonne Carter has spent three decades navigating Atlanta's financial corridors, but nothing in her career has moved as fast as the last 18 months. Under her leadership, Peachtree Capital Group has closed $4.2B in deals across the Southeast — and the pipeline shows no sign of slowing.
Carter attributes the acceleration to Atlanta's unique convergence of talent, infrastructure, and institutional confidence. 'We're not a secondary market anymore,' she told Atlanta Business News in an exclusive interview. 'The capital is here. The talent is here. The will to compete nationally is here.'
EXECUTIVE SPOTLIGHT
David Kwan, Founder, AtlantaAI Ventures: Betting Big on Georgia's Innovation Pipeline
When David Kwan returned to Atlanta from Silicon Valley in 2021, his colleagues questioned the decision. Five years later, AtlantaAI Ventures has backed 34 startups, logged three exits above $100M, and anchored a new wave of deep-tech entrepreneurship in Georgia.
Kwan's thesis is straightforward: Atlanta's university pipeline — Georgia Tech, Emory, GSU — produces world-class research that is systematically undercapitalized. His fund is built to close that gap. 'The best deals in AI and logistics tech right now are not in San Francisco,' he says. 'They're here.'
Opinion &
Analysis
Raymond Foster · Senior Editor, Atlanta Business News
OPINION
Atlanta Can't Afford to Let the Talent War Become a Brain Drain
The city's recent run of corporate relocations is impressive. But if we fail to build the housing, transit, and quality-of-life infrastructure to keep the people who power those companies, we'll be celebrating arrivals while quietly losing what made Atlanta attractive in the first place.
August 14, 2026
Sandra Okoye · Contributing Analyst
OPINION
The Case for Atlanta as the Next Great American Financial Hub
New York's concentration risk, Chicago's cost structure, and Dallas's regulatory complexity are opening a lane for a city with Atlanta's institutional depth, geographic centrality, and growing capital density. The window is open — the question is whether Atlanta's leadership class is bold enough to walk through it.
August 13, 2026
Elena Vargas · Economic Policy Fellow
OPINION
Why Atlanta's Small Business Surge Is the Most Underreported Story of 2026
Amid the headlines about Fortune 500 arrivals and billion-dollar venture rounds, Atlanta's real economic story is being written by the 14,000 new small businesses launched in metro Atlanta in the last 12 months — and the systemic support structures being quietly built to sustain them.
August 12, 2026
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