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UF Innovate | Accelerate is the place-making, entrepreneurial support organization within UF Innovate dedicated to working with entrepreneurs, innovators, and business builders. Through two award-winning, globally recognized facilities, UF Innovate | Accelerate delivers industry-leading entrepreneurial programs and services designed (1) to accelerate the growth and development of its client companies and (2) to increase the likelihood of success of the business ventures it serves.
By offering a structured business entrepreneurship support program and surrounding our entrepreneurial ventures with important business-building capabilities, UF Innovate | Accelerate clients can grow faster and stronger than they would on their own by accessing proven business-development services that accelerate venture growth, investment and success.
Access to mentors and trusted advisors
Introductions to knowledgeable small business service providers and resource partners
Capital access support (including VC and angel introductions and pitch deck preparation support)
Special events, workshops, and classes with skilled practitioners, surrounded by more than 90 other like-minded, early-stage venture founders
Curated business development support services
Access to shared services (IT, business center, shared scientific equipment, and facility common areas)
Unique to our mission, UF Innovate | Accelerate not only works with UF-affiliated ventures but with ventures spawned from the communities we serve. Selection is highly competitive and is done through a formal application process and payment of a non-refundable application fee.
WE CALL IT OUR “SECRET SAUCE” BUT THE RESULTS ARE CLEAR:
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Agriculture Intelligence is a precision agriculture science company combining machine vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to provide cloud-based, precision data for specialty crops. It is the global license holder of the Agroview smart agriculture platform.
Contact: Matt Donovan, CEO
Website: https://www.agroview.ai/
Fire Neural Network accurately pinpoints High-Risk-Lightning™ strikes within 40 seconds for early wildfire detection, utilizing artificial intelligence, lightning science, and astrophysics to save lives, protect property, and fight against climate change.
Contact: Dr. István Kérészy, CEO
Website: https://www.fireneuralnetwork.com/
LivAi transforms MRI and CT medical scans into clarity for patients, doctors, and drug developers.
Contact: Mike Galvin, Cofounder & CEO
Website: https://www.livai.ai/
Nano-Nose Inc. is developing an AI-powered, non-invasive breath test for early detection and risk stratification of metabolic disease, enabling scalable, prevention-first screening before clinical diagnosis.
Contact: Ezra Carlson, Founder & CEO
Website: http://www.nano-nose.com
C-Dots Nanotec is a start-up company that specializes in the discovery, development, and production of carbon dot nanomaterials for various applications in biomedicine, imaging, energy, sensing, engineering, and environmental sciences. At C-Dots Nanotec, our mission is to be a leader in the nanomaterial industry by delivering innovative and reliable carbon dots, related products, and services that exceed customer expectations. We strive to create a collaborative and supportive work environment that encourages creativity, innovation, and professional growth.
Contact: Elif Seven, Managing Director and Senior Scientist
Website: https://cdotsnanotec.com/
Mattrix Technologies is a semiconductor device company developing revolutionary pixel architectures for the interactive displays of tomorrow.
Contact: Max Lemaitre, Founder & CEO
Website: https://www.mattrixtech.com/
Micro Nano Technologies (MNT) a technology company offering industry-changing heating, cooling, dehumidification, and medical solutions based on high throughput functional membranes.
Contact: Michael Schmid, CEO
Website: https://www.mntusa.com/
RTX is the new name for Raytheon Technologies Corporation. The company provides aerospace and defense systems and services for commercial, military, and government customers.
Contact: Mark Sanders, Associate Director, Program Management
Website: https://www.rtx.com/
SATLANTIS is a New Space specialist who provides proven high performance payload technologies to enable the development of high spatial and temporal resolution services for earth observation and teledetection.
Contact: Rafael Guzman, CEO
Website: https://www.satlantis.com/
Silicon Assurance LLC is a hardware security company that provides computer-aided design (CAD) tools to mitigate the security challenges facing the semiconductor industry and its customers. We strongly believe that tools to ensure secure-by-design of microelectronics are essential for assuring trust in modern computing devices.
Contact: Raj Gautam Dutta, CEO
Website: https://siliconassurance.com
Slice Engineering is a design and engineering company focused on developing cutting edge technologies for the additive manufacturing (3D printing) industry.
Contact: Dan Barousse, Co-Founder and CEO
Website: https://www.sliceengineering.com/
X-rayNFT leverages advanced X-ray imaging technology to create digital twins of physical collectibles and electronic designs for automating authentication and provenance tracking.
Contact: John True, CEO
A lifelong health advocate, New York Times best-selling author, and researcher by heart, Naomi Whittel has traveled the globe to discover and source science-based and natural ingredients used by the world’s healthiest cultures. Named a leading female innovator in the wellness industry by Prevention, Naomi continues to collaborate with experts in the scientific community and deliver new and exciting ingredients and products.
Contact: Juan Motta – Chief Marketing Officer
Website: https://naomiw.com/
Epic Venture Partners is a network of industry experts and experienced investors that identify, evaluate, and support high-potential opportunities, connecting expertise with capital to drive successful outcomes for both investors and portfolio companies.
Contact: Bryan Edelstein, General Partner
Website: http://www.epicventurepartners.com
GOLOK is a cloud consulting and product development company focusing on ERP on Cloud. One of our products includes BERYMO, a ridesharing and shipping app.
Contact: Vish Mutluru, CEO
Website: http://www.golokglobal.com
GreenTechnologies is a Florida fertilizer manufacturer with a research focus on nutrient recycling for the development of renewable, enhanced-efficiency fertilizers sold under the brand name GreenEdge.
Contact: Dr. Amir Varshovi, President
Website: https://www.green-edge.com/
Kairos Transportation is a service company coordinating transportation for the medical transfer of non-emergency patients.
Contacts: Alexis Aguilar, CEO, and Jesus Molina, Co-CEO
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SCAD Media, LLC is a multifaceted advertising and communications agency delivering unique brand development, website production, graphic design, and video production services.
Contact: Alexander Ganz, CEO
Website: https://www.scad-media.com/
Starter Space is a community of passionate, collaborative entrepreneurs and change-makers. We supply the space, you provide the creativity, and together we innovate.
Contact: Payal Khurana
Website: https://starterspace.com/
Admiral is a software-as-a-service company built around making cutting-edge advertising technologies accessible to online publishers everywhere.
Contact: Dan Rua, CEO
Website: https://getadmiral.com/
AltaScient, formerly Vertaeon, is a software as a service company offering a comprehensive web-based solution for supply chain risk and impact analytics to identify vulnerabilities and related cost/brand impacts for complex supply chains.
Contact: Rekha Menon-Varma, CEO
Website: https://www.altascient.ai/
Atmosphere Apps is a mobile app development company collaborating with organizations to create innovative products that help professionals work better.
Contact: Eric Poirier, CEO
Website: https://www.atmosphereapps.com/
BACCH Laboratories, Inc. creates 3D audio software that places perceived sound sources anywhere, enabling the augmented reality of sound.
Contact: James Mentz, CEO
Website: https://bacch.com/
Chromatic Games is an innovative and unique video game development and entertainment company. They are extremely passionate about their popular game “Dungeon Defenders” and plan to only improve.
Contact: Augi Lye
Website: https://chromatic.games/
Depot Analytics is a software company, designing custom analytics and business automation products that make people and processes more efficient.
Contact: Caleb Robey, CEO
Website: https://www.depotanalytics.co/
Intersect Healthcare Systems Inc is a healthcare technology company offering a remote patient monitoring, AI and digital health platform solution to hospitals and healthcare organizations.
Contact: Larry Rine, CEO
Website: http://www.intersecthealth.net
Martinson Machine is using active intelligence to revolutionize energy resourcefulness, balance renewables, create greater awareness, and connect the Internet of Things. Through our innovative technology and services, we are working to create more insightful utilities, smarter cities and a more resourceful world.
Contact: Rodrigo Martinson, CEO
Website: https://martinsonmachine.com
STEM Sims is a software company that supports interactive, contextual learning of core STEM concepts for grades K-12 students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics to provide students with the science, knowledge, and skills needed to compete in our 21st century globally based information economy.
Contact: Justin Clark, customer experience specialist
Website https://stemsims.com/
Tera Insights, a UF Research Computing partner, is the firm behind the ResVault system. Tera Insights provides NIST compliant data storage, encrypted virtual machines, and secure HPC solutions.
Contact: Thomas Samant, CMO
Website: https://terainsights.com/
Agriculture Intelligence is a precision agriculture science company combining machine vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to provide cloud-based, precision data for specialty crops. It is the global license holder of the Agroview smart agriculture platform.
Contact: Matt Donovan, CEO
Website: https://www.agroview.ai/
Alchem Laboratories is a contract research organization that focuses on process development and manufacturing of fine organic chemicals and drug substances.
Contact:
Website: https://www.alchem.com/
AlfaChemInvent, LLC is a start-up chemical company with a broad range of expertise in organic synthesis, natural products, and drug discovery. AlfaChemInvent conducts original chemical research in life science as well as material science. The company provides contract research and manufacturing services, including synthesis of novel organic compounds and drugs, methods development, scale-up, and manufacturing.
Contact: George Nikonov, President & CEO
Website: http://alfacheminvent.com/
Ansicht Scidel Pharma India (ASPI) is an Indian biopharma R&D company, working on regenerative medicine development for neurodegenerative diseases, wound healing, and solid tumors.
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Website: https://www.ansicht-scidel.com/
Aptus Biosciences is a startup providing nucleic acid-based affinity reagent discovery services and products known as “aptamers.” Aptamers are equivalent to antibodies (or sometimes better) that can replace antibodies for any number of applications, e.g., binding and detection reagents used in diagnostic tests.
Contact: Bharat Gawande, Founder & CEO
Website: http://www.aptusbio.com/
BioInfoExperts LLC provides connected services and technologies related to detecting and monitoring pathogens in communities and the health care industry. We collaborate with research groups at the National Institutes of Health, the University of Florida, the University of California at San Francisco, the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Johns Hopkins University and the AIDS and Cancer Specimen Resource, among others.
Contact: Susanna Lamers, CEO
Website: https://bioinfox.com/
Canaery is an analytics company building a digital scent platform that can be used to detect the airborne fingerprints of infectious diseases in real-time plus countless untracked explosives, biological threats, contaminants, invasive species, air pollution, and zoonotic diseases in agriculture.
Contact: Gabriel Lavella, CEO
Website: https://www.canaery.com/
FfAME provides an innovative environment to host the scientific and technological research of a small group of selected computational, molecular, and life scientists, who can combine physical and organic chemistry, molecular and structural biology, systems biology, cell biology, organismic biology, ecology, evolutionary biology, paleontology, geology, astrobiology, and planetary science to create a vertically integrated science for the current century with the opportunity to transfer technology from basic research to meet opportunities in commerce and medicine.
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Website: http://www.ffame.org/
The Loss Prevention Research Council is a “tactical to practical” company that conducts research to develop crime and loss control solutions to improve the performance of its members and the industry.
Contact: Richard Hayes, CEO
Website: https://lpresearch.org/
Resonance Signatures LLC is an analytical company aiming to develop and commercialize a handheld authentication device, based on the principle of nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) spectroscopy, to help improve the health and safety of the general public.
Contact: Kelsey Horace-Herron, CEO
Website: https://www.resonance-signature.com/
BioFrontier is a biopharma company developing a high-quality process that will rapidly develop bio/pharma products and provide services to support molecule, cell, and cell express system development.
Contacts: Mariana Serpeloni ; Dr. Fabricio K Marchini
Website: https://biofrontiertechnology.com/
FfAME provides an innovative environment to host the scientific and technological research of a small group of selected computational, molecular, and life scientists, who can combine physical and organic chemistry, molecular and structural biology, systems biology, cell biology, organismic biology, ecology, evolutionary biology, paleontology, geology, astrobiology, and planetary science to create a vertically integrated science for the current century with the opportunity to transfer technology from basic research to meet opportunities in commerce and medicine.
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Website: http://www.ffame.org/
Firebird Biomolecular Sciences, LLC. operates as a supplier of nucleic acid components, libraries, polymerases, and software to support human diagnostics, systhetic biology, and human therapy. The Company also offers naturally organized genomic databases, customized databases, and interpretive genomics services.
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Website: http://www.firebirdbio.com/index.aspx
IdentifySensors has developed a next-generation digital diagnostic platform intended to rapidly detect multiple pathogens on a molecular level. The platform eliminates the need for enzymatic amplification and reagents. The technology is based on printed graphene sensors that isolate targeted viruses and bacteria within a handheld, Bluetooth device. The platform is intended to detect the genetic material of dozens of pathogens for over-the-counter and point-of-care use.
Contact: Joe Mosbrook
Website: https://www.identifysensors.com/
Immunogenik, Inc. is a biotherapeutic company develops next-generation cell therapies to treat highly lethal, treatment-resistant cancers.
Contact: Jianping Huang
Innovacorium Inc. is biotech company developing a pharmacological product for regenerative therapy of the oral cavity, particularly for the treatment of oral mucositis induced by radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
Contact: Tiago Seixas da Silva, President
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iOncologi, Inc. (iOi) is a biotechnology company specializing in immuno-oncology. Launched as a ‘spin-out’ cancer immunotherapy firm from UF, iOi’s founders have developed a novel stem cell therapy that overcomes resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors in multiple cancers.
Contact: Duane Mitchell, founder and president
Website: https://ioncologi.com/immuno-oncology-biotech
K-Lab Therapeutics is developing novel immunotherapies that target myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSC) and tumor cells to treat primary and metastatic cancers.
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Website: https://klabtx.com/
L&L Biotech is a biotechnology company identifying drug candidates and developing tools and reagents using comparative genomics and systems biology. Projects include identifying candidates that can suppress inflammation associated with autoimmune diseases and epigenetic modulators that can specifically de-repress tumor suppressor genes.
Contact: Lily Zhou, CEO
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Nanoneurosciences, Inc. is a biotechnology company specializing in the creation of innovative nanoarchitectures designed for precise drug, peptide, and ion delivery.
Contact: Matias A. Alvarez-Saavedra
Email: matias@nanoneurosciences.com
Plants in Jars is a biopharmaceutical company that develops custom plant tissue culture media formulations and creates educational content about plant micropropagation.
Contact: Lauren Gogan, CEO
Website: https://linktr.ee/plantsinjars
Serodopa Therapeutics is an early-stage pharmaceutical company developing approaches to save and improve the lives of people suffering from addiction.
Contact: John Abernethy, MD, president
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Treysta Medical Technologies is an early-stage therapeutics company developing a first-in-class topical drug platform for the prevention of scarring following cesarean delivery, serious burns, and other fibrotic dermal pathologies.
Contact: Nathan Zarnstorff
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/company/treysta-medical-technologies-inc
USA Prime Biotech is developing non-invasive and cost-effective biomarkers for early diagnosis of age-related progressing neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s Disease, Fronto Temporal Dementia, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).
Contact: Dr. Shyamasri Biswas, CEO
Website: https://usaprimebiotech.com/
NysnoBio is a startup gene therapy company dedicated to developing the therapeutic potential of the Parkin protein for patients with serious medical conditions. By targeting the PARKIN gene, NysnoBio tackles the root cause of Parkinson’s Disease by restoring neuronal health. NysnoBio envisions a future where the power of the Parkin pathway is directed toward specific disease areas, where the activation of the repair pathway can have maximum therapeutic benefits.
Contact: Jennifer A. Johnston, Cofounder and CEO
Website: https://www.nysnobio.com/
42Bio is a biomedical tech company combining biomaterials, magnetic nanotechnologies and growth factors to address existing barriers to research and clinical translation in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
Contact: Dr. Shabnam Namin, President
Website: https://42bio.com/
Axogen is the leading company focused specifically on the science, development, and commercialization of technologies for peripheral nerve regeneration and repair.
Contact:
Website: https://www.axogeninc.com
Lattéra by Gator Creek is a regenerative-health company dedicated to transforming how busy professionals, students, and healthcare workers fuel their bodies. Through smart vending technology, we provide instant access to anti-inflammatory, brain-boosting, and immune-supportive beverages that promote focus, resilience, and long-term well-being.
Contact: Maggie Ma, Co-founder & CEO of Lattéra by Gator Creek
Website: https://www.gatorcreek.biz/
Neobiosis is a CDMO developing new drug applications with the FDA, producing therapeutic regenerative medicine products for human use. The company also has a pipeline of intellectual property developed by Dr. Ian White during his 20 years’ experience at the bench at Cornell University, Harvard, and University of Miami.
Contact: Ian White, President and Chief Scientific Officer
Website: https://www.neobiosis.com
Vet Bio Solutions is a product development specialization company that designs and develops products in the Veterinary space. The company utilizes novel chemistries and biomaterials to generate products for the ophthalmic, surgical, orthopedic and wound care areas in the veterinary market.
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