UF Innovate | The Hub News

Startup of the Month: Pheronym

Pheronym has incubated at both UF Innovate incubators, The Hub and Sid Martin Biotech, but also has a presence in California. Nematodes pose a conundrum to farmers. The worm-like microscopic creatures are everywhere. Some are parasitic, infecting plants and destroying crops — but others actually attack insect pests. The ability...

Tech Tuesday: BehaviorMe Making Reality a Little Easier for Kids With Autism

Virtual reality technology is often used for video games, but one Gainesville startup is using it to help children with autism learn life skills UF Innovate | The Hub resident client “BehaviorMe” is a company designed to help behavioral therapists, parents, and kids. Learn more about Tech Tuesday: BehaviorMe Making...

Captozyme Named to Gator100 List of Fastest Growing Companies

Captozyme Inc. was named among the top 50 fastest-growing UF alumni led businesses on the University of Florida’s annual 2019 Gator100. Captozyme is a graduate of both UF Innovate incubators. Sponsored by the UF Alumni Association and in partnership with the UF Entrepreneurship & Innovation Center, the Gator100 recognizes the...

Merck Animal Health and Rapid Genomics Sign Exclusive Agreement on Vaccine Verification

Merck Animal Health, a division of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, N.J., USA, announced a collaboration agreement with UF Innovate | The Hub anchor client Rapid Genomics which grants the company exclusive rights to Rapid Genomics’ vaccination verification tool, Viral Flex-Seq®. This tool will be utilized in combination with Merck...

Starship Nematode: One Tiny Step for a Nematode, One Big Step Toward Sustainable Agriculture in Space

An exciting collaboration between the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech client Pheronym (Alachua, FL), will send nematodes (small round worms) into space to the International Space Station (ISS). The mission represents a look into the future where food crops will...

Pheronym Secures $100K Grant for First Ever Agriculture Bio-Control Experiment in Space

UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech resident client Pheronym, a bio-ag-tech pest control company, announced it has received a $100,000 research grant from the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory to conduct agriculture bio-control experiments in space. The science will focus on Pheronym’s breakthrough nematode bio-remediation technology and determine the impact...

HealthSteps & AMA Form Data Model Collaboration to Support Integrated Health Model Initiative

UF Innovate | The Hub startup HealthSteps, an emerging mobile health company offering innovative digital solutions to improve health services delivery and clinical research, announced a collaboration with the American Medical Association’s Integrated Health Model Initiative (IHMI) at the annual Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference being held in Orlando,...

How to Lead by Example and Share the Power With Peerfit CEO Ed Buckley

Leadership means serving the people below you. That’s true leadership that I teach to our department heads and anyone in a leadership position at Peerfit. The only way that you can use power correctly is to give it out to the people around you. Peerfit CEO Ed Buckley lives and...

UF Student Leads Company Researching New Digital Trend

Palveshey Tariq is the founder and CEO of Protonode Strategies located in UF Innovate | The Hub. Tariq serves as an expert in blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. Tariq graduated from UF in 2012 with bachelor’s in math, linguistics, and political science. She then earned a master’s in finance from Harvard...

Gainesville Startup Brings Augmented Reality to Special Events

Preview Technologies, a Gainesville startup incubating at UF Innovate | The Hub, is using technology in your phone’s camera to enhance the experience of galas or conferences. On this Tech Tuesday, TV20’s Olana Osborn shows us how advanced technology is making its way into everyday events by using “augmented reality”...