Jonathan Goldman

Jonathan Goldman is a Principal at Georgia Tech’s VentureLab and an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Georgia Research Alliance; working with faculty and students to create disruptive startups from their research innovations. He has helped spin up several Georgia Tech-derived companies including: Nexidia, Nuventix, Verco Materials, LumoFlex, Suniva (where he served as its Director of Business Development), TCPoly, WEAV3D, EMCOOL, Trellis, Matmerize and Falcomm. During his tenure at VentureLab, he has assisted more than a dozen companies that have raised more than $300M in venture and grant funding.

Jonathan serves as a Technology-to-Market (T2M) resource for 3 ARPA-E projects awarded to GA Tech, and serves on the Advisory Council for Oak Ridge National Labs’ Innovation Crossroads accelerator. He is also active in the NSF’s I-Corps program, having served as a mentor for 5 national teams, and has been on hundreds of Customer Discovery interviews. Recently, he built and lead VentureLab Launch, GA Tech’s summer program for PhDs, graduate students and research engineers. Over his career, he has partnered with hundreds of academic innovators in assessing and developing their inventions into businesses.

Jonathan began his career as an engineer on NASA’s Space Shuttle & Space Station programs for Rockwell International. He received his B.S. Degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT, and an M.S. degree from the School of Materials Engineering at Georgia Tech.