Create-X Startup Launch, Georgia Tech’s entrepreneurial initiative and startup accelerator, just wrapped up its latest cohort on campus. 75 teams set up their booths last night for Demo Day, where they chatted with local investors, potential customers, and the larger Atlanta startup community.
If the line wrapped around Georgia Tech’s Exhibition Hall was any indication, Create-X Demo Day was the event to be at last night.
We took a spin around Demo Day to talk to founders and learn about their vision for their startups.
Here were some startups that caught our eye!
The team behind ATHLUM is building light-up turf to change how athletes train in real time. Watch the full pitch here.
Create-X Through The Years
Previous Create-X teams are well known to the avid readers of Hypepotamus. Teams like Gimme, Grubbly Farms, Crescendo, Sora Schools, and UnDelay have been recently profiled. Companies like the supply chain unicorn Stord, which is backed by investors like Kleiner Perkins and Salesforce Ventures, got its start in the Create-X program.
To date, Create-X has worked with nearly 450 startup teams and has helped more than 1,100 founders get their start, according to director Rahul Saxena.
The program launched with financial backing from Christopher Klaus, the tech giant and Georgia Tech graduate, and the program now boasts a portfolio with a valuation of over $1.9 billion.
