WEEKLY UPDATE | Innovation @ Georgia Tech
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Student Innovation is excited to share yet another array of events that can help inspire you or develop your ideas into full-blown startups.
Interested in learning more about innovation and entrepreneurship? Do you want to be connected with other inspiring entrepreneurs? Now’s your chance! Join our Slack by clicking or scanning the QR code to keep up with all our events, stay connected, and ask questions!
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Meet Your Co-founder is a speed networking events for students to find co-founders.
Have a startup idea but no teammates to build it with? Do you have skills you want to apply to a startup but don't have an idea?
Come meet the co-founders you need to apply to Startup Launch!
This event will take place on February 3, 2021 at 5pm EST.
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Join Startup Exchange to learn about the business model canvas with Brandy Nagel, a member of Georgia Tech’s Economic Development Lab.
In this workshop, you will learn how to develop a unique value proposition. You will be able to pitch your startup’s services effectively and concisely all while being able to decrease the time your startup spends in the product development phase. As someone who’s practiced the lean startup methodology since 2012, Brandy has extensive experience in the various techniques that will help bring your product to market faster.
This event will take place on February 3, 2021 at 6pm EST.
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Deep Startups features knowledgeable entrepreneurs who discuss their experiences forming companies that solve big-picture current problems
These individuals speak to the concept of ‘deep startups’ and how to create companies that make a difference. Each Deep Startups event focuses on a different broad topic in engineering/technology and allows for student Q&A at the end of the event.
This event will take place on February 9, 2021 at 5pm EST.
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Competition, Funding, and Internship Opportunities
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Apply for this one year post-baccalaureate fellowship for exceptional early-career engineers with an interest in medical technology for low-resource settings.
Work as part of a team of passionate, talented young engineers interested in careers at the intersection of technology development and global health. Develop, refine, and evaluate low-cost, high performance health technologies for low-resource settings. Work closely with engineering visionaries: AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassador Dr. Maria Oden, and 2016 MacArthur Fellow, Dr. Rebecca Richards-Kortum.
The fellowship is open to graduating seniors and recent graduates who have received an engineering bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university. Recent graduates may have up to 3 years of experience or a masters degree and up to 1 year experience. The deadline for this application is February 15, 2021.
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Apply today to enter a 6-month mentorship and entrepreneurship program through Wells Fargo that will teach you and your company how to become part of the corporate stack. Test, prove, and grow your concept by connecting with business mentors, venture capitalists, and enterprise executives.
Your startup could receive an investment of up to $1,000,000 for a minority equity stake. Applications are accepted year-round.
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Goodie Nation has partnered with Google For Startups to distribute $5 million in non-dilutive financial capital to 75+ of the most promising Black-led startups from across the U.S. through the Google for Startups Black Founders Fund.
In addition to non-dilutive capital, recipients of the fund will receive wrap-around support from both Goodie Nation and Google For Startups in the form of network connections, high-value content, and marketing opportunities to help them advance their companies. Applications are accepted year-round, and funds are distributed on a first come, first serve basis.
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Join USF Connect for an inspiring, educational and interactive session as we share a conversation among four innovative and entrepreneurial trailblazers who’ve been there and done that successfully. Darlene Boudreaux (former pharma CEO and Executive Director of TechFW, now founder of BoudreauxBDX), John Hanak (Managing Director of Purdue Ventures and co-founder of The Purdue Foundry), Scott Koorndyk (President of TEC Dayton, one of the nation’s hottest SBIR funding success stories), and Wendy Kennedy (founder of the winning design methodology for innovators and entrepreneurs known as So what? who cares? why you?) will come together to share insights and perspectives from their collective decades of personal entrepreneurial experience and lending assistance to fellow entrepreneurs.
This founder-focused group will share insights on designing high impact commercialization endeavors, securing funding, building scalable startups and a host of other topics relevant to entrepreneurs. Please join us and come prepared with questions as there will be plenty of opportunities to join the conversation.
This event will take place on February 4, 2021 at 11am EST.
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The Festival of Urgent Reinventions is a free two-day virtual experience. Part conference, part competition – the festival will be a combination of talks and workshops by prominent change makers, and actionable briefs tackling the world’s most urgent and systemic issues.
Join in and use your skills to invent, code, plan, create, design or build a solution with support from our community members and experts.
This event will take place on February 4-5, 2021 beginning at 11:45am EST.
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Join the National Security Innovation Network( NSIN) for this Entrepreneurial Symposium to learn more about the Acceleration Program Opportunities with NSIN.
The Acceleration Portfolio is focused on finding and creating ventures that develop solutions to the real-world problems faced by service members. The Acceleration Portfolio identifies startups emerging from the academic and the venture communities that can address DoD problems in innovative ways.
Our programs and services support the engagement of ventures with potential DoD customers and stimulate the creation of new ventures from technologies emerging from DoD labs.
- Who: Early-stage ventures and start-ups interested in the defense market
- What: Short presentation and panel Ask Me Anything session
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When: February 5, 2021 | 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM (EST)
- Where: Zoom Webinar
- Why: Increase understanding of defense venture development and the opportunity for SBIR and STTR contracts which provide millions of dollars of non-dilutive funding to early-stage ventures every year and are a key way to expand into the defense market.
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Submit your idea & we will partner one-on-one with you to move YOUR idea forward!
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Want to expand your team or join a team that already has an idea?
Join a team or expand your team by clicking below!
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Don't Miss These Future Events
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Date: February 15, 2021
Join the Female Founders Startup Program for their virtual information session at 4pm EST. Eligible teams may apply for a $3,000 grant to be used for customer discovery, including travel and conference costs. Learn more at this virtual event!
Date: February 20, 2021
As a participant in the Academy, you will learn the business model canvas, evidence based entrepreneurship, and customer discovery. The format includes two hours of interactive learning (10 am - 12 pm), two hours of field work (12 pm - 2 pm), and two hours of coaching and feedback (2 pm - 4 pm). The application deadline is Friday, February 12 at 11:30 pm.
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Office of Undergraduate Education | Clough Commons 205
studentinnovation@gatech.edu | http://innovation.gatech.edu
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