James Harris

Entrepreneur in Residence

ATDC

James is an Entrepreneur in Residence at ATDC, Georgia Tech's startup incubator, where he manages a portfolio of tech-enabled founders in the Signature program and leads the development of North Star AI Labs. He has spent 30 years in startup development, education, and angel investing. He co-founded Core Venture Studios in 2014 to turn adaptive reuse real estate into space for founders, and the team built Collider, one of the first affordable co-working spaces in Atlanta, a block from Georgia Tech's business school, where more than 60 companies were mentored, incubated, or housed. Before that he co-founded N4MD and ran Elemental as CEO through its sale to Grey Global Group, then bought the company back.