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These Student Entrepreneurs Are Using Worm Waste to Wriggle Their Way Into a Double-Bottom Line Business

Student entrepreneur and Georgia Tech sophomore Akash Moozhayil is on a mission to turn your local restaurant food waste into the best compost out there — and he's using worms to do it. Vermicompost, the product of the composting process using species of worms, is a highly-efficient, affordable

Where's Grumpy Cat? This Student Startup App Puts the Memes You Want At Your Fingertips

Where's Grumpy Cat? This Student Startup App Puts the Memes You Want At Your Fingertips

Student entrepreneur and Georgia Tech sophomore Anushk Mittal caught the attention of the school's elite Startup Exchange CORE community soon after he put in his application. Since he began last summer, his viral meme app, Memeois, has already grown to several thousand monthly active users. It leverages machine

Georgia Tech's Startup Exchange Debuts CORE, A Community For Top Student Founders

Georgia Tech's Startup Exchange Debuts CORE, A Community For Top Student Founders

Student entrepreneurial organizations at universities have been on the rise for the last decade. At most, if not all, of the top universities in the U.S., variations of the same type of organization have popped up over the last decade: University of Southern California's Spark SC, UCLA&

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This Student-Led AI Startup Will Text You Reminders After A Doctor's Visit

At a hackathon last year, Georgia Tech students Manav Sevak and Kunal Naik paired up with Harvard medical student Nisarg Patel to form a team and solve a technical challenge. Following the event, the team decided they wanted to use their talents to tackle the issues behind medical adherence for

MyRighty Is an AI-Boosted Virtual Assistant 'For the Masses'

MyRighty Is an AI-Boosted Virtual Assistant 'For the Masses'

MyRighty, a company that provides human virtual assistants that use artificial intelligence to help you get your to-do list done, began with its founders trying to solve a pain point for themselves. Eithan Martinez and Joseph Levy, currently students at Georgia Tech; high school student Ariel Martinez , and Michael

Oculogx Employs Mixed Reality to Track Down Inventory In Massive Warehouses

Oculogx Employs Mixed Reality to Track Down Inventory In Massive Warehouses

Back in September, two Georgia Tech students, Sarthak Srinivas and Charu Thomas, took the stage at TechSquare Labs' quarterly competition, Atlanta Startup Battle, pitching a solution to solve a $1.45 million logistics problem for warehouses. That startup — supply chain optimization company Oculogx — took the crown (and a $100K