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Startup Atlanta
Startup Atlanta is a community-driven non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the greater Atlanta area. It focuses on connecting and supporting entrepreneurs to foster job creation and company formation.
Overview
What Startup Atlanta does
What Startup Atlanta is
Startup Atlanta is a community-driven non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the greater Atlanta area. It focuses on connecting and supporting entrepreneurs to foster job creation and company formation.
How it participates in the startup ecosystem
The current public profile supports community capabilities. Each capability below is shown separately so organization identity and role-specific information do not get conflated.
Operational profile
Organization status and context
Organization status describes the entity itself. Funding and program availability appear within the relevant capability profile.
- Operational status
- Active
- Organization type
- Community
- Founded
- Founded in 2013
- Approximate age
- About 13 years
- Structured capabilities
- Community
- Last reviewed
- April 1, 2026
Official channels
Find Startup Atlanta elsewhere
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Capability profile
Startup Atlanta as a community
Community overview
Startup Atlanta is a community non-profit organization founded to connect, support, and expand the entrepreneurial ecosystem within the greater Atlanta region. The organization aims to bolster the creation of jobs, companies, and wealth. It serves growth-focused entrepreneurs in the Atlanta area, focusing on scaling their businesses.
Community focus
Startup Atlanta focuses on connecting and promoting the Metro Atlanta startup ecosystem. It publishes the Guide to the Startup Ecosystem, hosts the Atlanta Startup Awards, and promotes various activities throughout the region. The organization is dedicated to strengthening societal networks, including talent, funding, ideas, and services.
Member value
Members benefit from access to a network of entrepreneurs, resources for business growth, and participation in various programs and events designed to support scaling businesses.
Membership
- Pricing models
- free
Format and cadence
- Modality
- in-person
- Schedule
- rolling-admissions
- Commitment
- light
Availability
- Membership state
- Accepting
- Next recorded event
- October 1, 2024
Audience and fit
- Audience
- Founders · Investors · Corporate Innovators
- Benefits
- network-access and mentorship
- Program types
- community, accelerator, and incubator
- Selection criteria
- open
- Stages
- Seed · Seed+ · Series A
- Regions
- United States
Community activity
- Annual events
- 2
Events and activity
Startup Atlanta organizes various events, including the Atlanta Startup Awards, an annual awards event for early-stage and growth-stage businesses held in October, and the Community Partners Lunch, a quarterly event for networking and collaboration among community partners.
Notable members
Key team members include Adam Harrell, Founder at Nebo Agency; Alex Gonzalez, Chief Innovation Officer at Metro Atlanta Chamber; and Allyson Eman, CEO of Venture Atlanta, among others.
Common questions
What to know about Startup Atlanta
Upseed classifies Startup Atlanta under the Community organization type. Its current public profile includes community capabilities.
Source and update disclosure
Know what this page is based on
Source basis
Public organization and program material, official websites, and structured Upseed records.
Last reviewed
April 1, 2026
Known limits
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