Jonathan Goldman

Jonathan Goldman has spent more than 20 years helping launch academic spinouts. After joining VentureLab in 2002 (now known as Quadrant-i), he helped create several hardware-based companies including Nuventix (sold to Aavid Thermalloy in 2014), Verco Materials, and LumoFlex. In 2007, he was instrumental in forming solar firm Suniva, and left to become its Director of Business Development. Since returning in 2015, he was instrumental in launching 7 companies: TCPoly, WEAV3D, EMCOOL, Matmerize, Falcomm, SoloPulse and Safe Road Solutions. During his tenure at VentureLab, he assisted more than a dozen companies that, collectively, raised more than $600M in venture and grant funding. He currently serves as a board observer to WEAV3D. From 2010 to 2015, he served as CTO & VP of Engineering, for Hydro Phi Technologies, a hydrogen-on-demand technology targeted at reducing fuel and emissions in buses and heavy trucks. He has 2 patents pending from innovations he led at HydroPhi. Jonathan has been active in the Atlanta entrepreneurial community since 1996, serving on the management teams of several telecom and Internet start-ups, including GA Tech’s Nexidia (sold to Nice Systems in 2016). He helped co-found the MIT Enterprise Forum of Atlanta in 2000, and served as its Chairman from 2008-2009. Jonathan began his career as an engineer on NASAs Space Shuttle & Space Station programs for Rockwell International and was East Coast Regional Sales Manager for MBE system builder Riber from 1989-1994. He is a member of the Materials Research Society, and regularly serves as a reviewer for NSFs SBIR Program.

Jonathan has served as a T2M resource for five ARPA-E projects under the following programs: BREAKERS, ASCEND, SF6FREE, ULTRAFAST and ROSIE, and has served as an Industry Mentor for 5 National Science Foundation I-Corps teams. He is currently Chair of Working Group on IoT Startup Ecosystem at The Center for the Development and Application of Internet of Things Technologies (CDAIT) at Georgia Tech. He has also served on ORNL’s Innovation Crossroads Leadership Council since 2019.