Builder-first
Every decision starts with what actually moves a builder forward, not what fills a calendar.
Our Story
Bridging ambition.
Building opportunity.
HatchBridge brings north Georgia's builders together around a shared goal: stronger businesses and a stronger community. Through practical education, personalized coaching, and connections to peers and resources, we help entrepreneurs across industries test ideas, launch new ventures, and scale existing businesses.
Our Mission
To connect entrepreneurs in North Atlanta metro area with the knowledge, resources, and connections they need to successfully test, launch, and grow their business.
What We Believe
Our philosophy and core values
High quality, high touch
We would rather serve fewer builders well than run wall-to-wall programming.
Accountability-driven
Coaching means real milestones and real follow-through, not just encouragement.
Community-centered
Builders learn as much from each other as from us. The room matters as much as the curriculum.
Beyond the program
Once a builder, always a builder. We stay in the relationship long after a program ends.
Room to experiment
A culture that normalizes testing and failing openly, because that is how good ideas get found.
Our Team
Practitioners, not administrators
Our team brings decades of combined experience in entrepreneurship, research commercialization, investment, workforce development, and community building. With backgrounds spanning technology, food, and startup education, we offer practical coaching that helps founders test ideas, strengthen strategies, and move their businesses forward.
Leadership
Bill Arnold
Director, HatchBridge Incubator
Bill brings 30 years of entrepreneurial practice: founding ventures, commercializing university IP, and directing incubator and accelerator programs. He previously served as Managing Director at Purdue Foundry and Venture Discovery Director at Big Idea Ventures. He holds a BA in Philosophy and an MS in Artificial Intelligence.
Colin Ake
Executive Director, Incubation & Commercialization
Colin founded HatchBridge Incubator in 2023, growing it into a program that has served over 300 companies and helped them raise more than $37.9M in follow-on funding. Before Kennesaw State University, he was VP of Strategy & Business Development at Masten Space Systems and spent seven years in commercialization at Georgia Tech.
Program Managers
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Lauren Lange
Community Program Manager
Lauren supports founders through practical, people-centered education that helps them refine ideas, test assumptions, and address customer needs. She previously spent over ten years at Georgia's Advanced Technology Development Center and Georgia Tech's EI² Global.
Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Mark Feinberg
Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Mark mentors founders, helps refine business strategies, and connects startups with the resources and relationships they need to grow, drawing on decades of experience as a founder, investor, and advisor across industries from food to technology.
Our Partners
Proud partners of Kennesaw State
University and the Cobb Chamber
These partnerships give HatchBridge builders a deep bench of resources, expertise, and networking, and connect our work to the broader north Georgia entrepreneurial ecosystem.