We are the place-making, entrepreneurial support organization within UF Innovate dedicated to working with entrepreneurs, innovators, and business builders.
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Our programs focus on four proven business-building pillars to accelerate a venture’s development and potential success.
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When you provide a gift to us, you’re assisting the community of entrepreneurs and emerging businesses we serve.
Inspire, educate, and empower founders in all phases of the innovation lifecycle throughout the state of Florida.
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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:
Discover the success stories behind our client partnerships!
A precision agriculture science company, offering cloud-based precision data solutions for specialty crops, utilizing machine vision, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to optimize practices and maximize crop yield and quality.
Contact: Matt Donovan, CEO
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
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
etectRx, Inc. is a digital health company that has developed a patented ingestible event marker (the ID-Cap System) to uniquely provide real-time dose-level medication ingestion verification.
Contact: Eric Buffkin, President & CEO
Mattrix Technologies is a semiconductor device company developing revolutionary pixel architectures for the interactive displays of tomorrow.
Contact: Max Lemaitre, Founder & CEO
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
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
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
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
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
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
Naomi Whittel is a lifelong health advocate, best-selling author, and passionate researcher who travels the world to uncover science-based, natural ingredients used by the healthiest cultures. Recognized as a top wellness innovator by Prevention, she works with scientific experts to create safe, effective, and affordable supplements that support wellness from within.
Contact: Juan Motta – Chief Marketing Officer
3002 Geospatial provides actionable and accurate geospatial data to assist clients with making informed geospatial decisions.
Contact: Brian Murphy, CP, PSM President
bhild (bild) is a construction company/property management company that provides homeowners the ability to provide quality work from a single resource.
Contact: Nick Indellicati, President
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
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
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
Kairos Transportation is a service company coordinating transportation for the medical transfer of non-emergency patients.
Contact: Alexis Aguilar, CEO, and Jesus Molina, Co-CEO
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
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
Admiral is a software-as-a-service company built around making cutting-edge advertising technologies accessible to online publishers everywhere.
Contact: Dan Rua, CEO
Atmosphere Apps is a mobile app development company collaborating with organizations to create innovative products that help professionals work better.
Contact: Eric Poirier, CEO
BACCH Laboratories, Inc. creates 3D audio software that places perceived sound sources anywhere, enabling the augmented reality of sound.
Contact: James Mentz, CEO
bhild (bild) is a construction company/property management company that provides homeowners the ability to provide quality work from a single resource.
Contact: Nick Indellicati, President
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
Depot Analytics is a software company, designing custom analytics and business automation products that make people and processes more efficient.
Contact: Caleb Robey, CEO
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
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
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
StoryFaith is a software platform that bridges the uncertainty gap for those exploring their faith. We make it easier to find a best-fit community and empower faith community leaders with digital tools to lead the people they serve.
Contact: Michael Saxton, Founder
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
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
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
Alchem Laboratories is a contract research organization that focuses on process development and manufacturing of fine organic chemicals and drug substances.
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
Senotrac aims to develop imaging probes with its novel technology to support diagnosis of various age- and stress-related diseases and conditions.
Andante Biologics is developing platform biologics to help millions of people overcome chronic stress-related diseases and disorders.
Contact: John Engels, Co-Founder
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
Cordelia Biosciences is an innovative biotechnology company dedicated to the sustainable development of chemical solutions from coral reef microbes.
Contact: Jessica Tittl Nielsen, Founder/ CEO
Curtiss Healthcare is biopharmaceutical company developing a platform of new vaccines designed to help make our world a safer place through technologies that improve food quality and safety and help treat and prevent serious infections in humans and animals.
Contact: Thomas Bigger, CEO
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.
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.
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
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
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
K-Lab Therapeutics is developing novel immunotherapies that target myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSC) and tumor cells to treat primary and metastatic cancers.
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
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
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
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
Gene2Genome is an independent reference laboratory providing Cytogenetic and Molecular Genetic testing services to physicians, medical groups and healthcare facilities.
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
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
Axogen is the leading company focused specifically on the science, development, and commercialization of technologies for peripheral nerve regeneration and repair.
Chiller Body is a Regenerative Health company that utilizes cutting-edge cryotherapy and wellness technologies to optimize recovery, enhance performance, and promote overall well-being.
Contact: Peter Bowman, Founder
EriVan Bio is a biopharmaceutical company developing exosome-based diagnostic, therapeutic and drug delivery systems for unmet medical needs with a focus on cancer and regenerative medicine. EriVan Bio works on the production of exosomes as targeted vehicles for the delivery of therapeutic molecules to cancer cells. EriVan Bio provides quality exosomes to its customers for different applications in an ethical and profitable manner.
Contact: Nasser Nassiri Koopaei, Co-Founder & Member
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
NeXtGen™, with its innovative biotechnology, is on a quest to explore the secret to regeneration and scar-free healing.
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.
Discover the success stories behind our client partnerships!
