Student founders. Georgia built.
Big ideas.
Meet your
first believers.
You see something that could be better.
Let's help you build it.
Grants of $500 to $10,000 for UGA student founders, with a community in your corner. You keep full ownership of what you build.
Ready when you are. Applications are open year-round and reviewed on a rolling basis.
What if?Start here.
starts with you.
student companies funded
in grants awarded
student-run since
student members
More than a check. A place to start.
Funding to get going
Test that idea. Build the first version. Take the next step. Our grants support student businesses from an early experiment to a company that is growing.
People in your corner
Get feedback from our student team and connections to UGA's entrepreneurship community, including the Idea Accelerator, Summer Launch, and the Georgia Bulldog Angel Network.
Learning by doing
Our members learn early-stage investing by finding, evaluating, and supporting real student companies. Curiosity gets put to work here.
A little capital.
A lot of possibility.
Find the grant that fits your next step. You keep full ownership of your company.
Starter Grant
$500–$1,000
For founders turning a customer need into something they can test.
Non-dilutiveRegular Grant
$1,000–$5,000
For businesses with revenue or that have completed an accelerator.
Non-dilutiveFollow-on Grant
$5,000–$10,000
For past Regular Grant recipients showing real growth.
Non-dilutiveOur portfolio
See what students are building.
EngNotebook
Shriyan Kothapu and Bao Le
Funded · Fall 2026View detailsHide details
A collaboration and portfolio platform for engineering teams to organize research, data, CAD, and prototypes, track project history, and turn their work into shareable portfolios.
Prayr
Yahia Abdelkarim
Follow-on grant · Fall 2026View detailsHide details
App that blocks phone distractions until prayer.
Quacked
Emma Chaffee
Funded · Fall 2026View detailsHide details
An AI-powered platform that helps students practice the quantitative reasoning needed for consulting case interviews.
Eagle Grip Golf
Vraj Patel & Charles Kuntz
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Premium golf gloves.
Skyfall Space
Grant Baumann
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Low-cost way to deorbit space debris.
Switch
Gabriel Gutierrez
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Routes AI prompts to the best-fit model automatically.
Where our founders have gone
Gently Soap went through Techstars and appeared on Shark Tank in 2023.
Ryze went on to raise venture funding from investors including Village Global and Fuel Capital.
Our student team
Students backing students.
We're UGA students, too. Across five committees, our team brings curiosity, fresh perspectives, and a shared belief in what student founders can build.
Meet the team
The conversation continues.
Meet student founders and hear their stories on our YouTube podcast.