Engage Ventures, the venture fund backed by 10 major corporations that launched earlier this year, has announced its first cohort of startups. Eight companies will begin the program, which serves to connect the largest grouping of corporate players in one independent fund, today. Based at the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) at Georgia Tech, Engage […]
If there’s one area of the Atlanta startup ecosystem lagging behind the growth of the rest, it’s local capital. Talent, startup activity, public support for entrepreneurship, and corporate innovation are all consistently strong, but the region lacks the investment resources of many of its fellow top-ranked Global Cities. But investment activity in the city may […]
Chronic wounds affect 6.5 million people in the U.S. every year, but only 1 out of every 500 nurses is board-certified in wounds. Moving patients from treatment facilities like nursing homes or hospice centers is also challenging, so wounds may be treated improperly or not at all. This gap in basic wound care, from bed […]
When Georgia Tech engineering professor and entrepreneur Baratunde Cola started working with nanomaterials as an engineering Ph.D student in the early 2000’s, he knew it would be a wide-open field. But when he dug into the properties of the carbon nanotube, a structure first discovered just 10 years prior, he saw the opportunity of “one of […]
Solar energy, while abundant (especially in the Southeast!), can often be too expensive to harness. One ATDC portfolio startup, Quest Renewables, has developed a technology to help solar developers save time and money when installing commercial projects. The QuadPod Canopy is a 3-dimensional truss system that can be installed on existing structures, like parking lots, for an easy […]