Inspire Placemaking Collective is shaping places that shape communities.

From the Biltmore Innovation Center, the firm planted its Atlanta office in Tech Square in April 2025, a full-circle move after drawing inspiration from the district years earlier.

Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) affects around 20 million people in the United States. The only way to definitively treat PAD is through surgery. However, monitoring one’s health after surgery is expensive, requiring patients to return to hospitals, and there is still a 12.5-20% incidence of secondary blockage post-surgery. CREATE-X startup, VasSense, has a solution. The startup’s wearable device allows for at-home monitoring for second incidences, making post-surgical care accessible.  

Atlanta has always been a relationship city. Long before “community” became a startup buzzword, introductions powered Atlanta’s business ecosystem, building shared trust and informal networks that opened doors across industries. From real estate and logistics to fintech and SaaS, deals here rarely begin with cold outreach. They begin with, “You should meet…”

Most dress patterns and forms come in a base sizes, but do not reflect real people’s bodies and proportions. That’s where Your Form comes in. The startup uses 3D body scans to create custom-made dress forms and sewing patterns out of recycled materials, making fashion design sustainable and inclusive.

When Sabah Mohammed moved to Atlanta to build her career in architecture, she expected to be designing buildings, not drowning in paper. Yet in her job, she found herself lugging dozens of floor plan printouts onto construction sites. “I was working on a project, and we were struggling to collaborate; I’d have to print these giant sheets of paper just to share updates with my teammates and clients,” Mohammed recalls. The process felt inefficient and archaic. This frustration would soon spark an entrepreneurial journey.

What started as a messy mix of pre-workout, electrolytes, and protein in a Georgia Tech football locker room has grown into DivineDrive™, a student-founded startup rethinking how athletes fuel performance.

Ecolyfe’s pivot from consumer energy savings to utility-scale forecasting has positioned the startup to influence national power grids and renewable integration worldwide.

What began as academic research at Georgia Tech is evolving into Deeproject AI, a CREATE-X startup designing a trustworthy AI co-pilot for educators.

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.”