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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

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&

Want to Be A Venture Investor One Day? With A New University-Focused Firm, These Undergrad VCs Are Doing Deals

Want to Be A Venture Investor One Day? With A New University-Focused Firm, These Undergrad VCs Are Doing Deals

University entrepreneurship programs are picking up steam across the country — more and more students are foregoing corporate careers for startup life in hopes of becoming the next Mark Zuckerberg story. But thus far, most university-centered programs have focused on the would-be entrepreneur, not the other side of the