How One Football Game Created an Entrepreneur – Victoria Liu of Byppo
In March of 2019, she created Byppo, an online ordering app that aims to change the world by making food ordering easier.
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The Gainesville Company That’s Changing 3D Printing | Dan Barousse & Chris Montgomery of Slice Engineering
Working with Gainesville’s startup resources and UF Innovate | The Hub, Dan Barousse and Christ Montgomery started Slice Engineering in 2017.
BYPPOCampus Connects Students Through Food
Founder of UF Innovate | The Hub resident BYPPOCampus Victoria Liu said the goal of the delivery service is to connect students through food, especially after the pandemic.
RTI Surgical and Exactech Announce Strategic Partnership
UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum RTI Surgical Holdings, Inc., a leading surgical implant company providing blue-chip OEM customers with a portfolio of tissue-based, synthetic and metal implants, has announced it has entered into a long-term strategic agreement with Gainesville-based and leading global medical device OEM Exactech, related to the development and supply of biologic bone substitutes.
Sweet Success: CABBI Demonstrates First Precision Breeding of Sugarcane With CRISPR/Cas9
Two recently published innovations by University of Florida researchers at the Department of Energy’s Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation (CABBI) demonstrated the first successful precision breeding of sugarcane by using CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing — a far more targeted and efficient way to develop new varieties.
Experimental Skin Cancer Vaccine Developed in Tampa Saves Woman’s Life
A vaccine developed by Morphogenesis, Inc., a UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum, helped improve a patients condition.
Idaho Improves Statewide Higher Education Access With Quottly’s Course and Program Sharing Solutions
The Idaho State Board of Education has partnered with UF Innovate | The Hub resident company Quottly, the largest and most comprehensive course and program sharing platform empowering the “Collaboration Movement” in higher education, to create a statewide digital campus that expands course and program offerings for all Idahoans.
Atsena Therapeutics Appoints Jennifer Wellman to Board of Directors
UF startup Atsena Therapeutics, a clinical-stage gene therapy company focused on bringing the life-changing power of genetic medicine to reverse or prevent blindness, announced the appointment of Jennifer Wellman to its board of directors.
The Startup That’s Asking You To Turn Off Your Adblocker | Will Richardson of Admiral
The team at UF Innovate | The Hub resident company Admiral was looking for a way to get around popular ad blockers. But then they stumbled upon something interesting - users would often choose to disable their adblocker when asked. With a simple message about how ads support the content they love, many users would choose to see ads - no difficult, technical solution needed.
dMed-Clinipace Announces Completion of US$50 Million Series C+ Financing From New Investors
dMed-Clinipace, the global full-service Clinical Contract Research Organization (CRO), announced the successful completion of a US$50 million Series C+ financing with participation from a group of new, leading international healthcare investors.
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