SATLANTIS Receives the Keicho Award for Innovation and Technology by CEJE
UF startup and UF Innovate | The Hub resident SATLANTIS, a Spanish business that develops Earth Observation (EO) optical payloads for small satellites around the world, received the “Keicho Award for Innovation and Technology”, within the fifth edition of the initiative by the Círculo Empresarial Japón España - CEJE (Business Circle Japan Spain), for promoting commercial relations between Spain and Japan.
Gainesville Tech Fund Selects Mattrix Technologies for Inaugural Investment
Mattrix Technologies is the first company targeted for investment by the newly established Gainesville Tech Fund, organized by venture capital firm Kirenaga. The investors in the fund include successful entrepreneurs and local business leaders.
Axogen’s Aim: Growing Tampa Into a Hub for Nerve Repair Treatment Technology
As a biotech company at the forefront of nerve repair treatment, UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum Axogen, Inc., a global leader in developing and marketing innovative surgical solutions for damage or discontinuity to peripheral nerves, has always been near the front of the scientific curve.
AavantiBio and Aldevron Announce Strategic Partnership To Develop Next-Generation Gene Therapies for Rare Genetic Diseases
UF startup and UF Innovate | The Hub resident AavantiBio, a gene therapy company focused on transforming the lives of patients with rare genetic diseases, and Aldevron, a global leader in the custom development and manufacture of plasmid DNA, proteins and mRNA for the biotech industry, announced a long-term strategic partnership for the supply of plasmid DNA that will enable AavantiBio to advance its platform of innovative gene transfer therapies.
Axogen, Inc. Appoints John H. Johnson to Board of Directors
UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum Axogen, Inc., a global leader in developing and marketing innovative surgical solutions for damage or discontinuity to peripheral nerves, announced that John H. Johnson has been appointed to its Board of Directors.
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.
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.
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.
SharpSpring Founder Rick Carlson Featured on Radio Cade Podcast
When Rick Carlson founded UF startup SharpSpring in 2012, he didn't think of himself as a CEO. “My co-founder and I were doing whatever it took to survive,” Carlson says, and they were responsible for everything from software development to buying office supplies. In the early days of the automated marketing software company, “there were so many failures it was hard to name them all,” according to Carlson.
Cannabix Technologies Granted Cannabis Drug Detection Device Canadian Patent, Delivers THCBA to US Clinic
UF startup Cannabix Technologies Inc., developer of the Cannabix Marijuana Breathalyzer devices for law enforcement and the workplace, announces that the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) has granted patent No. 2887841 entitled, “Cannabis Drug Detection Device”.
