Welcome to CREATE-X at Georgia Tech, an entrepreneurship initiative that helps students become founders through various pathways before graduation. At CREATE-X, you'll gain the confidence to tackle hard problems and launch impactful startups.
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CREATE-X, a Georgia Tech entrepreneurship initiative, helps students become founders through various pathways before they graduate. Students gain the confidence to tackle hard problems and launch impactful startups.
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Our Programs
CREATE-X is organized into three categories: LEARN, MAKE and LAUNCH. These entrepreneurship programs are open to all students, from incoming freshmen and undergraduate students of all years, to masters and Ph.D. students. Georgia Tech faculty, researchers, and alumni may also participate through our Launch program.
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
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