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.
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![Noah Mancuso](summer-incubator-noah-mancuso-ig-2-1.png)
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.
Read More![Morgan Villar](summer-incubator-morgan-ig-1.png)
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.
Read More![Yousef Rajeh](_summer-incubator-yousef-rajeh-ig-1.png)
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.
Read More![Patrick Latting](summer-incubator-patrick-latting-ig-1.png)
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.
Read More![Shashwat Murarka](summer-incubator-shashwat-murarka-ig-1-1.png)
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.
Read More![Emily Bush](summer-incubator-emily-bush-ig-1-1.png)
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.
Read More![Daren Zhang](summer-incubator-daren-zhang-ig-2-1.png)
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.
Read More![Alissa Cohan](summer-incubator-alissa-cohan-ig-1-1.png)
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.
Read More![Helen Hsu](summer-incubator-helen-hsu-ig-1.png)
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.
Read More![Barbara Biney and Sydni Williams](../_includes/images/sections/besties-box-ig---main-ss-page.png)
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.
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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.
Read more![Shakila Ali](../_includes/images/incubator-s-ali-2.jpg)
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.
Read more![Adway Gopakumar](../_includes/success-adway-square.png)
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.
Read more![Kayla Jones](../_includes/images/incubator---kayla-ig1.png)
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.
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