UF Innovate | The Hub News

GrowFL Features Admiral in Florida Companies to Watch

UF Innovate | The Hub startup Admiral is a 2020 GrowFL Florida Companies to Watch honoree. In Inside GrowFL’s December edition, you’ll find an interview with Dan Rua, Admiral CEO, titled “Admiral: On a Mission to Help Websites Build Relationships.” In it, Dan talks about his company’s mission to help...

UF Startup Shadow Health Is Going Big and Staying Home

In early December, local UF startup Shadow Health, which develops virtual simulations for nursing and healthcare education, became part of Elsevier, a global leader in information and analytics, that is part of RELX, an even larger global provider of information-based analytics. The acquisition will hasten Shadow Health’s ability to reach its biggest goals.

TAO Connect’s Founder Sherry Benton Shares Tips To Replace New Year Resolutions With New Habits

Many start the new year with resolutions, but the hard part is sticking to them. Dr. Sherry Benton, founder of UF startup and UF Innovate | The Hub graduate TAO Connect, a digital platform designed to make behavioral health therapy more accessible and effective, says it’s easier to start with small changes that you can sustain all year long.

Putting Drones and Smart AI to Work

Dr. Yiannis Ampatzidis and Matt Donovan are the developers of Agroview, a Florida startup invention and a 2020 Cade Prize finalist. A spinoff company located at UF Innovate | The Hub called “Agriculture Intelligence Inc.,” was created, which provides Agroview’s services to growers.

Orchard Tech Helps Create Savvy Seniors

Some of the best business ideas begin with family, and 25-year-old Ming Yang’s Orchard Tech, a UF Innovate | The Hub alum that helps Baby Boomers cross the digital divide, is one of them.

Harness Pheromones for Sustainable Pest Control

"Without some method of treatment, about 12% of crops globally would be lost to plant parasitic nematodes,” says Karl Cameron Schiller, co-founder and chief operating officer of bio-tech startup Pheronym. To combat these pests, Schiller and his team are developing non-toxic pesticide solutions that pose fewer risks to the environment.

Century 22 Solutions Joins Creek Technologies Company’s OASIS Team

UF Innovate | The Hub resident company Century 22 Solutions LLC (C22) formally announced that it joined with Creek Technologies Company's (CreekTech's) team pursuing opportunities under the General Services Administration (GSA) for the agency's One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS) Small Business (SB) Pool 1 Government-Wide Acquisition Contract (GWAC).

Pheronym and USDA Enter Into 5-Year CRADA

UF Innovate | The Hub and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum Pheronym, an Ag-biotech pest control company, has signed a 5-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA ARS).

High-Resolution Cameras in Space for a European Maritime Surveillance System

Observe the Earth from space to improve the defense of the European Union. With this objective in mind, UF startup and UF Innovate | The Hub resident company SATLANTIS, a provider of high-performance payload technologies for Earth observation and remote sensing, is leading a European project to develop critical technologies with which to implement a maritime surveillance mission.

Communicating With Nematodes for Better Farming

Pheronym was one of the nine finalist teams for the 2020 Ray of Hope Prize®, presented by the Biomimicry Institute and the Ray C. Anderson Foundation. Pheronym increases the effectiveness of commercially available beneficial nematodes (microscopic roundworms) by tapping into their natural communication platform, pheromones.