Accelerating Early-Stage, Emory-Affiliated Startups
The program helps early-stage founders through a defined process that will allow teams to rapidly take their ideas and test them with customers to discard, change and build a business model to move the startup forward.
This program will successfully help teams discover reliable pathways to authentic demand in early customers. In almost all cases, teams attending the program will achieve success by using the evidence-based tools and processes to recognize when to move away from ideas that don’t reveal demand from buyers/users.
Participation is open to entire Emory community including students, faculty, staff, and alumni; at least one Emory community member per team qualifies the entire team.
All team members will be required to attend on a weekly basis: up to 90 minute per night in-person sessions, present a weekly team update, and complete in-person, documented customer interviews. In addition, it is highly encouraged to meet with your leader during posted office hours to discuss advancements of the business and progress of the founders.
The program will be held at Emory University, and is a collaboration among Techstars, the Goizueta Business School and the Hatchery, Center for Innovation.
Please consider: This is a highly-interactive program that requires substantial time outside the classroom interacting with your potential buyers/users each week.
Our Team
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Christy Brown Primary Accelerator Instructor
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Brian Cayce Managing Director, The Roberto C. Goizueta Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation
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Ben Garrett Director of The Hatchery Center for Innovation
FAQ
Applications are open until January 17, 2025, and the program begins January 30, 2025.
Your team only needs one Emory community member to qualify the entire team for the program. The program is open to the entire Emory community to help build and enhance the Emory student/faculty/staff/alumni entrepreneurial spirit by helping create successful startups.
This accelerator currently focuses only on for-profit startup ventures seeking investment readiness.
Please apply as completing the application will help you focus your idea and move it from a napkin to a page and that will be helpful. We would love to hear from you.
No, we don't take any ownership of IP or equity in the teams in the program.
No, we don't take any ownership of IP or equity in the teams in the program.
Yes, this program is free. Thanks, Goizueta!
Techstars is the most active pre-seed investor in the world having invested through its accelerators in more than 3,700 companies that have a combined market cap of over $99 billion. Founded in 2006, Techstars believes that entrepreneurs create a better future for everyone, and great ideas can come from anywhere. Now we are on a mission to invest in an unprecedented number of startups per year enabling more capital to flow to more entrepreneurs around the world. We do this by operating accelerator programs and venture capital funds, as well as by connecting startups, investors, corporations, and cities to help build thriving startup communities. https://www.techstars.com
The Hatchery supports innovators and entrepreneurs from all Emory schools and serves as Emory’s epicenter for exploring what’s possible. We empower students with the skillsets and mindsets to be purpose-driven and effective innovators and entrepreneurs who drive demonstrable social and economic impact. Housed within a 15,000-square-foot creativity and collaboration space, The Hatchery offers mentoring and program support for all stages of innovation—from inspiration and learning to startups. https://hatchery.emory.edu
The Roberto C. Goizueta Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation is a leading resource for entrepreneurial education at Emory University, meeting students, faculty and staff where they are in their development. With access points and general exposure for the curious as well as skill development and in-depth learning opportunities for the highly engaged, the center offers both academic and experiential pathways for founders, connectors, investors and disruptors. The Center seeks to foster entrepreneurship and innovation for Goizueta and the greater Emory community through critical inquiry, service to fundamental societal needs, execution of sound business principles, and possibilities that spark the imagination. https://goizueta.emory.edu/faculty/entrepreneurship-innovation
