Atlanta’s tech ecosystem is getting a lift from NASA’s Technology Transfer University program, which lets Georgia Tech students turn real NASA patents into market-ready ideas. “Integrating NASA patents into our technology entrepreneurship course was a tremendous success,” says Professor Greg Mihalik.

On November 17, 2025, Georgia Tech hosted its first AI Career Fair. Throughout the inaugural event, the Georgia Tech Exhibition Hall was a hive of activity as over 500 students, interested in artificial intelligence (AI)-related career opportunities, engaged with nearly 30 employers to explore career paths, gain industry insights, and build professional networks. “This is an amazing event to have these opportunities to meet these employers in person. I have always gotten interviews from meeting people in person,” said a Georgia Tech student and computer science major.

Velocity Startups, located in the historic Biltmore building, joins Georgia Tech’s commercialization ecosystem, solidifying the Institute’s role as a national leader and premier hub for startup growth.

In the startup or innovation space, things move lightning fast. In fact, waiting just a week for the next iteration of your customized circuit board to be printed could be a significant setback. “Startups move fast, and innovators need their circuit boards as quickly as possible. Waiting weeks for a specialized board isn’t an option. Convexity Electronics’ goal is to be more local and convenient,” shares Calla Scotch, Founder and Lead Technical Developer.

Turning raw information into actionable insights often takes weeks of manual work or costly consulting. Founded by Pavleen Thukral, Magic Data automates the messy processing that slows analysts down. Acting as a “virtual data analyst,” Magic Data’s tool cleans, organizes, and analyzes raw data, so humans don’t have to.

A record of 17 startups, focused on a diverse range of topics from healthcare and logistics to artificial intelligence and robotics, graduated from the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC)’s program on October 21. The event was held at the historic Biltmore Georgian Ballroom, located on the ground floor of the new Biltmore Innovation Center in Tech Square, and celebrated the 2025 ATDC Graduating Class and ATDC’s 45th Anniversary.

Pairing a lifelong interest in cooking, especially the gathering with friends and family around the table, with financial responsibility is what inspired Ivan Zou, the co-founder of Raccoon Eyes, to dig into the problem of food waste. Ivan shares, “When I started seeing how much food was being not eaten by students and wasted in kitchens, I was inspired to find a solution at the intersection of the kitchen and consumer that could help avoid both waste and economic cost.”

Imagine asking a virtual assistant technology to play your favorite song, only to have a different one start playing. Or providing a verbal command to a robotic tool, and it completes another action. Now imagine you are at the doctor’s office, where accuracy and precision are essential and lifesaving, and virtual assistant technology fails to understand or transcribe the correct information based on your unique voice, medical condition, accent, first language, tone, and more.

“We hope to get everyone to catch ‘entrepreneur’s disease,’” says John Avery, referring to the contagious excitement of entrepreneurship. As director of Georgia Tech’s ATDC, Avery has helped cultivate a collaborative environment in Tech Square where mentors and founders spark ideas, share advice, and turn big concepts into startups.

Can biosignals such as heart rate, breathing, and blood pressure be integrated into immersive virtual reality experiences? For researcher-turned-entrepreneur Yuchen Zhao, this vision is at the core of her work with her startup BioVR.

Startups need talent. Students need experience. But too often, cost keeps them apart. Georgia Tech’s Office of Commercialization is breaking down that barrier—funding internships that give students real-world exposure while helping young companies scale.

When Atlanta native Sayem Hoque saw how organizations struggle with repetitive, time-consuming administrative tasks, he knew he could make a difference. His startup, Flexbone, has emerged from stealth with AI-powered agents designed to streamline operational workflows and is now gearing up to expand across the Southeast.

Imagine an Atlanta where there’s a pathway for every breakthrough in a Georgia Tech lab to launch into a startup and scale to a billion-dollar “unicorn”. This isn’t a distant fantasy—it’s the vision that Dr. Raghupathy “Siva” Sivakumar, Georgia Tech’s chief commercialization officer, is championing.

Many people with diabetes in the U.S. struggle to get specialized, continuous care, often navigating complex glucose patterns on their own. GlucoSense aims to change that with its new AI-powered GlucoSense Companion, translating real-time glucose data into personalized insights for better daily management.

Marvel fans might have seen Zeus Q2 and Astro, his loyal puppy, glide across the set of its new series Ironheart on Disney+. No remote, no keyboard, just voices commanding every move. Consumers and audiences were wowed, but how did a modest robotics start-up take its product from the classroom to the Marvel Cinematic Universe?