Point the founders Georgia Tech VentureLab can't take to Emory University and Georgia Tech

What to do

1. Add the line below wherever a founder finds out they don't fit: your eligibility section, FAQ or application page.
2. When PursueATL publishes the Atlanta programs and funds comparison, link to it from the same line.
3. Let Emory University know you did it. The habit works best in both directions.

The line, ready to paste

Not the right fit for Georgia Tech VentureLab? Try Emory University (https://hatchery.emory.edu/programs/venture-support.html) or Georgia Tech (https://airtable.com/appaTqlTL2zQkXBBR/pagdkIvjQbvDbSD2F/form). Every Atlanta program and fund, side by side: https://pursueatl.com/roles/

Put it wherever a founder finds out they don't fit: your eligibility section, FAQ or application page. Then tell Emory University and Georgia Tech you did it. It works best in both directions.

The same line as HTML, with the links in

<p>Not the right fit for Georgia Tech VentureLab? <a href="https://hatchery.emory.edu/programs/venture-support.html">Emory University</a> (emory students from all nine schools, plus faculty forming start-ups through the Office of Technology Transfer; the 2026 Accelerator was also open to founders with no Emory affiliation) and <a href="https://airtable.com/appaTqlTL2zQkXBBR/pagdkIvjQbvDbSD2F/form">Georgia Tech</a> (georgia Tech students, faculty, researchers and alumni; ATDC is described as Georgia's technology incubator for startup companies) may be a better match. <a href="https://pursueatl.com/roles/">See every Atlanta program and fund, side by side</a>.</p>

Why it helps

In the answers where the engines turned founders away from Georgia Tech VentureLab for fit, they sent them to Emory University and Georgia Tech instead. A founder who hears no from one Atlanta door should land at another Atlanta door, not another city.

This is the habit that makes Atlanta feel like one ecosystem to the engines, and to founders.

Who the engines pick instead

Emory University, Georgia Tech

The questions this is for

• How do Atlanta's universities work together on startups, if at all?
• I'm not a student. Can I take entrepreneurship classes or use a university incubator in Atlanta?
• What support exists in Atlanta for immigrant founders?
• How would you describe Atlanta's startup ecosystem, and which organizations anchor it?
• Who in Atlanta writes the first institutional check for a hardware or deep tech company?

How you'll know it worked

In December, watch the answers that turn founders away from Georgia Tech VentureLab: do they name an Atlanta option next?