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Get To Know The 11 Student Entrepreneurs In Emory's First Summer Incubator Cohort

Get To Know The 11 Student Entrepreneurs In Emory's First Summer Incubator Cohort

Patrick Latting knew the event planning process was broken. He’d put together his own events for other organizations he started and experienced all the headaches that come with looking for the right vendors. He talked to many others in similar positions. So he started thinking about how technology could

Green Dirt

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

Vimband

These Student Entrepreneurs Are Competing For $1M For A Wearable That Tackles Extreme Heat

Globally, average annual temperatures have been rising for decades — according to the EPA, 15 of the 16 warmest years on record have occurred since 2000. What’s more, as heat-trapping greenhouse gases increase in the atmosphere, the agency says that “scientists expect heat waves to become more common, more

Memora Health

University-Focused Contrary Capital Makes First Georgia Tech Investment Into Patient Care Startup

Contrary Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm focused on student entrepreneurs, has invested in Georgia Tech student-founded Memora Health as part of the company’s seed round. The company, which will graduate from the Y Combinator accelerator next month, also took in capital from Y Combinator and Rough

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&

This Company Aims to Be the One-Stop-Shop to Compare Service Providers

This Company Aims to Be the One-Stop-Shop to Compare Service Providers

When you're comparing student loan or financial providers, you can spend hours looking at slightly different services on Google. It can get tedious and, in the end, can leave you even more confused. FetchMi aggregates all the necessary information for you to easily make side-by-side comparisons

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