Spotlight on Innovation: Atlanta Startup Village #95 Welcomes Four Dynamic Tech Startups

March 19, 2024
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Buckhead's Tech Corridor

March 26, 2013

Question: What’s one mile long, employs nearly 1,400 people in high-paying jobs and has Atlanta Tech Village at the epicenter of it?Answer: Buckhead’s Tech Corridor, a mile long stretch of Piedmont Road between Peachtree Rd and Roswell Rd. This area in the heart of Buckhead is a hotbed for innovation and technology, spurring the creation of new businesses and being a natural choice for growing tech companies and tech-related service providers to locate. Atlanta Tech Village sits at the center of this activity-- purposefully-- to provide a hub of resources, activity and innovation to the entire Buckhead tech community.

Mission: Possible - Creating Shared Purpose

March 22, 2013

As community builders here at Atlanta Tech Village, we’re working hard to connect a ton of individual pieces that together form a net that supports a thriving, awesome community. We are working eight, ten, sometimes twelve hours a day on all of those pieces. Sometimes we even stress over little decisions like “should this chair in the lobby be turned slightly inward or will that make people not want to sit in it?” or “what is the best paint color to incite happiness and productivity from those sitting beneath its glow?”There has to be a purpose behind ruminating over decisions that on the surface seem trivial but are important in the context of our larger mission. So what’s our mission, our purpose? Why are we so deliriously happy to invest so many hours into creating this thing?Mark Bonchek, blogging for the Harvard Business Review, tells us that purpose is not achieved for our customers, it is achieved with our customers: “customers are not just consumers; they’re co-creators. They aren’t just passive members of an audience; they are active members of a community.” This couldn’t be more true for Atlanta Tech Village! Our customers are our community and our purpose is a shared purpose. [Quick song break: Everything I doooo, I doooo it for youuuu.]

Your Next 2,000 Hours

March 18, 2013

A good friend of mine recently accepted a high paying and well respected marketing position with a sports company. It seemed an enviable opportunity, until he began to work and found that he was required to clock in and out for his work day and his lunch breaks. He literally inserts his hand into a machine that reads his identity and stores his work hours. For someone who is driven, energetic and creative, this is a soul crushing system.

Intentional Community

March 10, 2013

Our roles and the communities we are a part of shape our identity: entrepreneur, son, daughter, leader, friend, board member, church goer. Some connections are made by default, and some are created intentionally. The most meaningful interactions can often happen by chance; you attend a conference and the best conversation happens with someone sitting next to you on the flight or an acquaintance ends up connecting you with someone who profoundly affects your career trajectory. These connections don’t happen in isolation.So if those serendipitous interactions are the most profound, why not create a community that intentionally encourages them?As Seth Godin stipulates, if the best conversations happen in hallways, make more and bigger hallways. Our hope is that the Village becomes an avenue for growth, encouragement, and a place where intentional community is fostered; a place where creativity is sparked, mentorships are initiated, and resources are abundant. We know the value of our community is found in the sum of its parts.

Community > Building

January 1, 1970

With co-working spaces exploding in Atlanta, it is pretty easy to find cool places to work and grow your company. Just our block in Buckhead has over 200,000 square feet of quality co-working space! This is SO good for small business, creatives, and contractors who are mastering the hustle and growing their business.But here's the thing: the Village is MORE than a co-working space. It can be confusing with all the new awesome spaces trying to figure out where is the best fit for you. Atlanta Tech Village is a tech hub. In fact less than 10% of our space is dedicated to co-working. We are for tech startups and operate like an accelerator without the timeline or equity exchange.If you have proprietary technology and are trying to recruit talent, scale, and finesse your pitch- the Village is for you. This is why you can't just walk in and sign up. It's why there is an application process. We don't care if you are B2B, B2C, in IoT, mobile, or securities- we just want you to have a business plan, proprietary technology, and be a culture fit for us. And while the nap rooms, free beer, gym classes, and Friday lunches are fun and a great recruitment tool, our greatest value is found in our people- our curated group of Mentors and Advisors, teachers of workshops, partners at AWS and BizSpark, peer huddles, and enterprise connections. When you join the Village, you are joining a community of 1000+ other like minded entrepreneurs. There is no price tag on that.So if you are looking at the Village just for office space- you are doing it wrong. Unlike co-working or traditional office space, we are an amenity rich community focused on providing the resources and flexibility needed for startups with proprietary technology to grow, scale, and success. YOU are who we are created for and will help fulfill our mission of helping Atlanta become a Top Five Tech Hub in the US.We are the best place to grow a tech startup where community is greater than our building. Join us and increase your chance of success.

Leadership Development Program

January 1, 1970

We are excited to announce the Village’s new Leadership Development Program. With over 1,000 members in our community, we strive to serve founders as well as each individual member. We believe in growth and constantly becoming better versions of ourselves. There has been notable life changing stories unfold from our Mentor and Advisor program and we want to provide this resource to the young professionals in our community. This team is made up of 6 incredibility suited individuals who have a passion to pay it forward and to dream big alongside Villagers. We are excited to serve the mass portion of our community through a mentorship-like opportunity.So who are these amazing individuals going to be? Drum roll please...

Our Most Asked Questions

January 1, 1970

A few years ago, Atlanta Tech Village founder, David Cummings, wrote a great blog post about some of the most Frequently Asked Questions he gets about Atlanta Tech Village. If you haven’t read it yet, you should check it out. As a team who does hundreds of tours and even more events, we thought we would add a few of our own often asked questions in addition to those David addressed.

WOMEN + TECH GROWTH

January 1, 1970

March is Women’s History Month so we decided it was the perfect time to launch our new initiative for women in tech. Ladies, are you listening? The Women + Tech Program was created for YOU to support and inspire you as leaders, builders, and influencers of the Atlanta startup community. Our mission is to empower women in tech through a kick-ass network, intentional teaching, and purposeful community because it does take a Village. Our goal is to make to Atlanta the number one place for “women in tech” (because clearly, it’s not Silicon Valley).

EVENTS ON EVENTS

January 1, 1970

Events are all about working hard and playing hard, am I right? Conveniently enough, so is the Atlanta Tech Village. Our events are about learning, growing, connecting, and serving the Atlanta community. From weddings and disco parties to fireside chats, board meetings, and pitch events, our team hosted over 700 events in 2018 (yes, you read that correctly), to help make this the best place for startups to succeed. The Village exists to create faster connections to talent, ideas, and capital and one of our favorite ways to do that is putting on fun, informational events.

4th It Takes a Village Cohort Graduation

January 1, 1970

After shifting the focus and format of the It Takes A Village Pre-Accelerator Program at the top of the year - which included prioritizing traction over investments, shortening the time frame from 6-Months to 16 weeks, and structuring a sustainable startup curriculum - the results from our third graduating cohort speak volumes!

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