{"455341":{"#nid":"455341","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech students finalists for startup of the year","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJust six months ago, Josh Lieberman and Isaac Wittenstein were two Georgia Tech students sitting in Startup Lab, a class that exposes students to startups and teaches them how to develop a business model. Both were interested in the electric vehicle market.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAt the same time, Dorrier Coleman was experimenting with electric vehicles as part of his Capstone Design project.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EToday the three are co-founders of TEQ Charging, a startup that invented a power strip that allows multiple electric vehicles to be recharged by a single charging point. They were in Las Vegas as finalists for Tech.Co\u2019s annual Startup of the Year.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EColeman graduated in May, while Lieberman and Wittenstein are still enrolled as mechanical engineering majors.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThey launched TEQ during \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2015\/08\/17\/students-spend-summer-launching-startups\u0022\u003EStartup Summer\u003C\/a\u003E, which is part of CREATE-X, a Georgia Tech initiative to enhance and support entrepreneurship programs for undergraduate students. The new program is one way the Institute is preparing the nation\u2019s next entrepreneurs.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cGeorgia Tech has given us the opportunity to be where we are right now,\u201d said Lieberman, who is the CEO. \u201cWithout it, we would not have been able to clearly define our business. This definition has allowed us to build a strong business and be a finalist for Tech.Co Startup of the Year.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETEQ eliminates a main source of frustration for electric vehicle drives: seeing one car plugged in to a charging point all day while other drivers wait to connect. The power strip solves that problem by servicing multiple cars at a time. Their patent-pending algorithm and hardware design eliminates the need to run a separate power line to each individual charger. The TEQ app helps vehicle owners locate an open charger.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETEQ is currently in its beta program and expects to hit the market the first quarter of 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELearn more about TEQ \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.teqcharging.com\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"TEQ Charging invented a power strip that allows multiple electric vehicles to be recharged by a single charging point."}],"uid":"27918","created_gmt":"2015-10-05 09:28:57","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:40","author":"Laura Diamond","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-10-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-10-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"455361":{"id":"455361","type":"image","title":"TEQ Charging team","body":null,"created":"1449256319","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:11:59","changed":"1475895199","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:19","alt":"TEQ Charging team","file":{"fid":"203463","name":"teqcharging.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/teqcharging_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/teqcharging_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1895145,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/teqcharging_0.jpg?itok=YRPLMuyB"}},"434591":{"id":"434591","type":"image","title":"TEQ Charging","body":null,"created":"1449256148","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:09:08","changed":"1475895174","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:54","alt":"TEQ Charging","file":{"fid":"202965","name":"final_render.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/final_render_0.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/final_render_0.png","mime":"image\/png","size":681934,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/final_render_0.png?itok=KAZIFhBJ"}}},"media_ids":["455361","434591"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.teqcharging.com\/","title":"TEQ Charging"},{"url":"http:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu","title":"CREATE-X"}],"groups":[{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"137161","name":"CREATE-X"},{"id":"3472","name":"entrepreneurship"},{"id":"166972","name":"startup summer"},{"id":"166994","name":"startups"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39531","name":"Energy and Sustainable Infrastructure"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"106361","name":"Business and Economic Development"},{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELaura Diamond\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["laura.diamond@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}