Restaurant OperatorGreater Atlanta

Chick-fil-A

Restaurant Operator · Atlanta, GA

Chick-fil-A is a fast-food chain specializing in chicken sandwiches, one of the largest quick-service restaurant chains in the US by sales.

Founded

1946

Region

Greater Atlanta

Investors

People

About Atlanta

Atlanta exists because of a railroad crossing — it was founded as a rail terminus, and that same logistics instinct now runs through Hartsfield-Jackson, the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic. Georgia Tech anchors the engineering side, while the Atlanta University Center — Morehouse, Spelman, Clark Atlanta — makes it home to the largest concentration of historically Black colleges in the country, a talent pipeline the fintech and media companies here don't always get credit for drawing on.

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Region Stats

Total firms 194

VC / investors 14

Companies 163

Schools 17

Known For

Fintech

Media

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