Links

Funding / Support

• SBIR / STTR information
• Solicitations
• More information and partnering
• Innovative Funding
• Kickstarter
• Indiegogo
• RocketHub
• Kiva
• Traditional Funding
• Invest Atlanta
• List of Investment Funds and Groups
• Patent assistance
• Georgia PATENTS

Startup Support

• General Assembly - technology, business, and design courses
• TAG (Technology Association of Georgia) promotes technology industry growth in GA
• Startup Atlanta
• Incubators (Metro Atlanta | Georgia (pdf))
• Accelerators (Engage)

Local Collaborative/Independent Work Zones

• ATL Hackerspaces
• MASS Collective
• Freeside Atlanta
• Geekspace Gwinnett
• My Inventor Club
• Other (Workspaces and communities)
• Tech Square Labs
• The Garage at Tech Square
• Atlanta Tech Village
• Hypepotamus
• NEX Atlanta
• Center for Civic Innovation

Resources

• SparkFun / Jameco / DigiKey / SeeedStudio / Adafruit / RobotShop

Interesting Research

• BDML @ Stanford University
• Yale Robotics / Robotics, Mechatronics, and Human Machine Interface (Human Machine Interface (HMI) Lab @ Yale closed 2012)
• Robotics and Intelligent Machines at Georgia Tech (RIM@GT)

Education, Development Resources

• FIRST Robotics
• Lego NXT MindStorms
• VEX Robotics
• Stanford University courses: ME218 / ME310
• Stanford Online Courses
• Robotics Courseware
• MIT Open Courseware
• Maker Faire
• Quirky

Related Companies

• Small business collaborators
• Subsidiaries (TBA)
• Orogenesis

Other Resources

Downloads

Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs)

• Single disclosure
• Dual disclosure
• Visitor disclosure

Patents

• Provisional application (template) (info | forms)
• (Non-provisional) Utility patent application (template) (info | forms)
• (Non-provisional) Design patent application (info)
• (Non-provisional) Plant patent application (info)