Success Stories

Featured innovators

Emory students find inspiration and success at The Hatchery

When students come to The Hatchery with a big idea or startup, they receive support for all stages of innovation. What these innovative students have done with that support is truly inspiring. Read their stories below.

Stories

Noah Mancuso: Success Story from The Hatchery Summer Incubator

Meet Noah Mancuso, current PhD student in Global Epidemiology, and Queer Health Collaborative (QHC), a diverse group of LGBTQIA+ health professionals combining their lived experiences with their public health expertise to improve the health of queer people everywhere.

Morgan Villar: Success Story from The Hatchery Summer Incubator

Meet Morgan Villar, a student at Candler School of Theology and a student founder in The Hatchery Summer Incubator. Morgan is the founder of Dignity Homes, a non-profit development firm that builds affordable, rent-to-own single-family homes and provides programming for the 50% of Atlanta residents who are housing insecure.

Yousef Rajeh: Success Story from The Hatchery Summer Incubator

Meet Yousef Rajeh, a rising senior in the College studying Computer Science and a student founder in The Hatchery Summer Incubator. Yousef is the founder of SageVR, an AI-powered, VR-based re-imagination of traditional therapy.

Patrick Latting: Success Story from The Hatchery Summer Incubator

Meet Patrick Latting, a rising junior studying Business and Economics, and founder of BidBee, an online services marketplace that helps event planners find vendors, cutting out a massive amount of communication time for event planners and allowing vendors to find more jobs.

Shashwat Murarka: Success Story from The Hatchery Summer Incubator

Meet Shashwat Murarka, a recent graduate from the College, and founder of DDB (Doing Delivery Better) Solutions, a platform that aids to navigate last-mile delivery obstacles through vizualisation.

Emily Bush: Success Story from The Hatchery Summer Incubator

Meet Emily Bush, rising junior studying Neuroscience & Behavioral Biology in the College and founder of Science & Health Early Education Program. The program aims to address deficits cognitive development and education due to resource disparities in children from disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds through developing a free, volunteer-based supplemental education program for disadvantaged children in Atlanta.

Daren Zhang: Success Story from The Hatchery Summer Incubator

Meet Daren Zhang, a recent graduate from the Emory College of Arts & Sciences and founder of florence, a game-based platform for pediatric oncology patients to combat social isolation and maintain neurological development.

Alissa Cohan: Success Story from The Hatchery Summer Incubator

Meet Alissa Cohan, an MRL student in the Candler School of Theology and a student founder in The Hatchery Summer Incubator. Alissa is the founder of tapfer, a platform that is on a mission to partner care seekers with licensed care providers at a 90% match rate using machine learning.

Helen Hsu: Success Story from The Hatchery Summer Incubator

Meet Helen Hsu, a recent graduate from the Goizueta School of Business and a student founder in The Hatchery Summer Incubator. Helen is the founder of TeamTonic, a gamified virtual workspace powered by AI.

Barbara Biney and Sydni Williams: Success Story from The Hatchery

Meet Barbara Biney and Sydni Williams, Emory School of Medicine students and founders in The Hatchery Incubator. Together they created Besties Box, a subscription box service providing customers with a monthly delivery of product samples to fulfill their haircare interests and needs.

Gabriela Olmedo: Success story from The Hatchery

Meet Gabriela Olmedo, a student at Emory's Goizueta Business School, and a student founder in The Hatchery Incubator. Olmedo was inspired to create THRIVE Atlanta after working as an Emergency Medical Technician in Rockdale County, Georgia.

Shakila Ali: Success story from The Hatchery

Meet Shakila Ali, a recent MPH graduate from Rollins School of Public Health, and a student founder in The Hatchery Incubator. Shakila is the founder of Doste Afghan Foundation, a 501c(3) nonprofit organization that provides humanitarian assistance at the individual level to underserved women, widows, youth, and people with disabilities in Afghanistan.

Adway Gopakumar: Success story from The Hatchery

Meet Adway Gopakumar, a student at Emory College of Arts & Sciences and a student founder in The Hatchery Incubator. His organization, Liberation Through Education, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated towards promoting primary education in underserved communities around the world.

Kayla Jones: Success story from The Hatchery

Meet Kayla Jones, an alumna of Candler School of Theology and Goizueta Business School MBA program, and a student founder in The Hatchery Incubator. Kayla started The Crowned Helmet, a company that promotes cycling safety and healthy hair by designing bicycle helmets for people with thicker hair textures.