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OLED Display Startup Mattrix Technologies Opens $3M Financing Round With Second Investment From JSR Corporation

UF startup and UF Innovate | The Hub resident client Mattrix Technologies, Inc., a US-based startup developing groundbreaking AMOLED backplane solutions for the flat-panel display industry, announced that JSR Corporation has closed a second investment into the company. The $1.5M investment will be used in part to support the joint...

The Hub and Sid Martin Biotech Mentioned As Best Startup Incubators by Coara

Coara, a software development company based in Switzerland, Germany and Estonia, mentioned UF Innovate | The Hub and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech as two of the best incubation programs worldwide among 16 incubators for startups in 2020. Learn more about The Hub and Sid Martin Biotech Mentioned As...

Pheronym Milestones Are Recognized by Society of Invertebrate Pathology

UF Innovate | The Hub and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum Pheronym, a bio-ag-tech pest control company, has been selected as Research Highlights in the past two years by the Society of Invertebrate Pathology (SIP), Division of Nematodes for the company’s technical milestones. The paper “Conspecific and Heterospecific...

Gainesville Startup Works to Find Lost Money

A Gainesville startup is aiming to capitalize on a little-known tool offered by state governments: unclaimed property searches, which reveal forgotten funds that are held by state treasuries until the rightful owner claims them. In 2015, Chris Prompovitch, CEO of UF Innovate | The Hub alum ClaimFound, came up with...

Gainesville Company Leading in Genomics Global Research

Gainesville is home to many successful startups and has been for years. UF startup and UF Innovate | The Hub resident client RAPiD Genomics is no exception. The idea for the tech-based genomics company was formed by a group of University of Florida grad students almost 20 years ago. “We...

Local Company Brings ‘Next Level’ 3D Printing Global

UF Innovate | The Hub resident client Slice Engineering is a Gainesville-based tech startup that brings 3D printing to the next level. Cofounders Daniel Barousse and Chris Montgomery worked at a medical device company in the city when they ran into issues at work that they wanted to solve with...

The First Optical Space Mini-Camera Takes 20,000 Images in a Month

The first miniaturized space-based Earth-observing optical camera has begun sending huge-resolution images after a complex process of calibration, thermal stabilization, and connection tests. The camera, developed by UF startup and UF Innovate | The Hub resident client Satlantis, a provider of high-performance payload technologies for Earth observation and remote sensing,...

Creative Agency Helps Businesses Bring Their Brands and Ideas to Life

Juan Carlos Tafur had been working as a Creative Director at the University of Florida when he got the inspiration for Innova Leaf, a creative video agency offering professional animated video content, promotional video solutions, and different video production services. He noticed a gap in communication and a lack of...

UF Innovate | Ventures Announces Inaugural Investments; Follows JSR Corporation’s Repeat Investment in OLED Display Startup Mattrix Technologies

The University of Florida’s newly established venture fund, directed by UF Innovate | Ventures, has closed an investment in Mattrix Technologies. Repeat investor JSR Corporation is leading the $3M series A1 financing, which will support the joint development of production-ready materials for a new class of video display technology that...

The Future of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Higher Ed

Mark Long, director of incubation services at UF Innovate, shared on The Place Makers podcast, episode 10, along with Pete Cramer, director of development at Wexford, and Jabir McKnight, co-founder | director of campus recruitment & business development at DREAMBEACON, what needs to be done in order to be more...