CREATE-X’s Startup Launch is a program for Georgia Tech students and alumni who want to launch their projects from idea stage (or beyond) into fully functioning and viable startups!

Our founders spend 12 weeks during the summer building their startups. At the end of Startup Launch, they showcase their new products at Demo Day. Watch the video and get a glimpse of what the program is about!

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CREATE-X at Georgia Tech

CREATE-X is a Georgia Tech initiative to instill entrepreneurial confidence in students and empower them to launch successful startups.

By the Numbers

38
majors represented
5,000+
students involved
400+
student startups created
$1.9B+
total valuation of startups

Our Programs

CREATE-X offers entrepreneurship programs for all students, from incoming freshmen and undergraduate students of all years, to masters and Ph.D. students. The programs are organized into three categories: LEARN, MAKE and LAUNCH.

LEARN

The CREATE-X LEARN element consists of a class that exposes students to startup concepts and teaches them the methodology of evidence-based entrepreneurship. Through LEARN, Startup Lab gives students a zero risk opportunity to examine their startup ideas within the context of their formal education and enables them to identify business failures in the lab instead of in the market.

MAKE

The CREATE-X MAKE element consists of a set of research and prototyping classes that enable students to overcome technology barriers that might lie in the way of them launching a successful venture. Through MAKE, Idea to Prototype and CREATE-X Capstone provide students with prototyping grants, mentorship, and curricular credit as they create intellectual property and build prototypes toward their venture idea.

LAUNCH

The CREATE-X LAUNCH element consists of a program for students and alumni who want to launch their projects from idea stage (or beyond) into fully functioning and viable startups. Through LAUNCH, Startup Launch provides teams with $5,000 in seed funding and $30,000 worth of in-kind services, including legal and accounting services, coaching, space, mentorship, visibility, and IP protection.

"CREATE-X is working to establish Georgia Tech as the number one startup campus in the nation with the most funded student startup enterprises."

Rahul Saxena
Director, CREATE-X

Recent News

Over 1,500 people came to support 75 Georgia Tech startups created by students, alumni, and faculty for Demo Day.

CREATE-X’s Startup Launch will introduce its 10th cohort of talented startup founders on Demo Day, Aug. 31, 5 – 7p.m., in the Exhibition Hall.

Through CREATE-X, Corey Hewitt, cofounder of Gimmer Vending, and his cofounder, Evan Jarecki, convinced investors to buy-into their product and launch something that revolutionized the vending industry.

Yolanda Payne, former Jim Pope Fellow in Georgia Tech’s VentureLab, didn’t pitch an app or new technology to get CREATE-X’s support for her startup, but she did propose a solution for a problem.

Events

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