What we Offer


Community and Building


The Hatchery Sandbox is Emory's newest entrepreneurship community.

  • For Emory students who want to build ideas, find collaborators, contribute their skills or explore entrepreneurship through hands-on experiences
  • Learn how to build an idea, project, startup or nonprofit
  • Join an existing team or explore new innovative and entrepreneurial frontiers
  • Become a catalyst and contribute skills such as research, design, technology, consulting or communications
Learn more about Sandbox
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Student Venture Support


Working with students to understand their needs and goals, coach and develop their ideas, and connect them to financial, material, and programmatic supports.

  • Material and financial support for projects and startups
  • Personalized coaching and mentoring
  • Targeted instruction on essential skills for startups
  • Connections to programs and resources across Emory, and to companies, organizations, and alumni beyond
Learn more about The Hatchery Accelerator
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Curricular Classes


Where all Emory undergraduates an opportunity to transform their bold, creative ideas into real-world solutions for real-world problems.

The Rose Program engages students from the start, with an Ignite pre-orientation course focused on innovation for incoming first-year Oxford College and Emory College students. It continues with a three-course academic sequence focused on experiential learning, innovation and mentorship:

  1. Foundations of Entrepreneurship: Introduces fundamental principles, tailored for non-business students.
  2. Applied Entrepreneurship (Startup Lab): Students explore real-world business scenarios and test startup concepts.
  3. Business Development (Startup Launchpad): Students develop their business ideas and write a business plan.
Learn more about The Stuart and Mimi Rose Program
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For those who want to teach, support, or mentor student innovators


Contact us if you would like to:

  • Consult and support student ventures
  • Teach or speak on innovation and entrepreneurship topics
  • Partner to create programs that benefit both students and your organization
  • Provide student externships for entrepreneurship learning and professional growth
  • Sponsor challenges and student projects
  • Provide grants and other support for startups
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