VentureLab at Georgia Tech

VentureLab is thrilled to be engaged in this program with Cyber Innovate and Munster Technological University. Thank you Ronan Coleman and AnnMarie Barrett for leading the charge here and helping to facilitate this partnership. We look forward to working with cyber researchers over the duration of this program and to helping them to move their startup projects forward!

Thrilled to announce the completion of our 14th Georgia Tech Female Founders cohort, a partnership between VentureLab and Georgia Tech CREATE-X! We’re proud of the 12 dynamic, female- and non-binary-led teams that joined us and can’t wait to see the impact they’ll make in their entrepreneurial journeys. Huge thanks to our speakers Sarah (Naumann) Gabriel and Amanda Shojaee with In Good Company Works and Stephanie Krell with CREATE Strategy and to our pool of talented mentors from the Georgia and North Carolina entrepreneurship ecosystems. Thanks also to our our dedicated team for empowering and supporting another talented group of Georgia Tech innovators (Melissa Heffner Sara Martin Henderson Skye Svehlak and Lauren Flamer).

Excited to have kicked off with another strong cohort of female and non-binary founders! Looking forward to supporting these teams with sponsorship and education from the VentureLab at Georgia Tech teaching team, Georgia Tech CREATE-X, and from our speakers and mentors!

Excited to announce our 14th cohort of the Georgia Tech Female Founders program led by our VentureLab team of instructors and coaches (Sara Martin Henderson Melissa Heffner Lauren Flamer Skye Svehlak). Please join us next Wednesday for our info session or feel free to go ahead and apply. This fall we will have two speakers and industry and startup mentors joining us. If you are a female solopreneur or a female led or co-led startup team from Georgia Tech or the community please feel free to apply. Can't wait to get started with another group of women leaders this fall! Register for our info session: https://shorturl.at/WPWmB Apply today: https://lnkd.in/eJu2cEMh

Excited to have had Tenisha Griggs speak to our summer cohort about Smarketing: Aligning Sales and Marketing for Success! Her insights were incredibly valuable, especially as teams continue their journey through customer discovery to find their problem-solution fit. Such sessions, like today, could not happen without the full support of our phenomenal VentureLab team (Sara Martin Henderson, Melissa Heffner, Lauren Flamer, Skye Svehlak) and the team funding support from Georgia Tech CREATE-X! #womenentrepreneurs #leanstartups #femaleleadership #femalentrepreneur #femalefounders #customercentric

ATLANTA ?? ?? ?? The Southern hospitality and charm?? ??Collaboration over competition?? Ce cours séjour dans la dynamique ville d’Atlanta est passé à une vitesse éclair! Ce f?t la portion ??tech et innovation?? du voyage. Au ??jour 1?? , nous avons visité l’accélérateur incubateur Atlanta Tech Village (merci Ania Lackey pour la visite!) qui est un incontournable pour les startups en Géorgie (et partout dans le monde!). Leurs méthodes d’accompagnement et initiatives sont clairement inspirantes (et leur équipe se serait apparemment aussi inspirée de structures d’accompagnement au Québec!) ???? Immense coup de coeur lors de notre rencontre avec Keith McGreggor et Nakia Melecio de VentureLab at Georgia Tech; propulser les innovations universitaires vers des succès technologiques et d’affaires durables est clairement une vision que je partage. Saviez-vous qu’ils sont dans les premiers à avoir offert des programmes de formation pour les professionnels de l’accompagnement à travers le monde? ?? Je ne peux passer sous silence notre rencontre avec Shakiri Murrain, MBA du Russel Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Leur structure d’accompagnement et leurs installations sont les mieux pensées pour soutenir les entrepreneur.e.s des communautés noires. Je me réjouis toujours de rencontrer des individus autant passionnés que moi face à la réussite des entrepreneur.e.s de nos communautés. Ce centre est également la démonstration que lorsque différents joueurs habituellement en compétition arrivent à collaborer, cela est la plus belle richesse que nous pouvons apporter aux entrepreneur.e.s. ?? #IVLP ———————————————————— “The Southern hospitality and charm” “Collaboration over competition” My stay in the dynamic city of Atlanta went by at lightning speed! This was the tech and innovation portion of the trip. On Day 1, we visited the Atlanta Tech Village incubator accelerator (thanks Ania Lackey for the visit!) which is a must-see for startups in Georgia (and everywhere!). Their initiatives are clearly inspiring (and their team apparently also took inspiration from fellow accelerators in Quebec!) ???? I really enjoyed our meeting with Keith McGreggor and Nakia Melecio from VentureLab at Georgia Tech; propelling university innovations towards sustainable technological and business successes is clearly a vision that I share. Did you know that they were among the first to offer training programs for tech accelerators’ coaches and advisors around the world? ?? My highlight was our meeting with Shakiri Murrain, MBA from the Russell Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Their incubator and facilities are best designed to support entrepreneurs from black communities. This center is also the demonstration that when different players usually in competition manage to collaborate, this is the greatest wealth that we can bring to entrepreneurs. ?? #IVLP

We are very excited to have had our team member Melissa Heffner speak to this group of cancer researchers with the V Foundation. Melissa delivered a workshop on scientific communication strategies to help this group better communicate complex science to relevant stakeholders.