CREATE-X’s Spring Showcase Draws Investors, Founders, and Students to the Biltmore Innovation Center
On May 21, Georgia Tech's CREATE-X program filled the Georgian Ballroom of the Biltmore Innovation Center with energy as 26 newly launched startups showed off what they do. The room also began to fill with the investors, founders, and students eager to meet them.
Unlike a traditional pitch competition, the showcase is built for exploration. Attendees move through the space at their own pace, engaging directly with founders and experiencing hands-on product demos. The result feels less like a conference and more like a living preview of the innovation coming out of the program.
The spring cohort was made possible after CREATE-X expanded Startup Launch to include a spring cycle in 2024. This gave founders, particularly graduating seniors, another runway to go all-in on their companies. The showcase spanned distinct tracks like robotics and cybersecurity, healthcare, consumer and media tech, and SaaS. The range of each row of startups was striking. There would be hardware teams demonstrating physical prototypes in one area, and SaaS and healthcare founders walked guests through early products targeting some of the most complex problems in their industries.
Guests included investors scouting early-stage deals, fellow startup founders, Georgia Tech students exploring entrepreneurship, and community members from across Atlanta. The showcase captured the energy and momentum of startups at their earliest stages, and a front-row look at innovation emerging directly from campus.
