UF Innovate | Tech Licensing has helped start more than 350 biomedical and technology companies based on university research.
As of July 2026, UF Innovate | Tech Licensing has helped start 344 biomedical and technology companies based on university research. Of 231 active startups founded on UF research, 60 percent (139 companies) are in Florida; 29 percent (66 companies) are in Alachua County. This is a testament to the quality of the research, the fact that they are unique, well-protected innovations, and that experienced, credible entrepreneurs are attracted by the possibilities to leverage this work for commercial success.
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Here is a listing of startups based on university research that UF Innovate | Tech Licensing has helped launch. Here, you can view websites to learn more about these startups. The list is continually updated and categorized under toggle boxes.
A global full-service digital contract research organization (dCRO) that has pioneered an innovative service model to serve the unique needs of venture-backed, mid-tier, and strategic pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device firms.
Contact: https://www.clinipace.com/contact-us/
Website: https://www.clinipace.com/
Developing gene-therapy cures for rare eye diseases.
Contact: https://agtc.com/contact-us/
Website: https://agtc.com/
A clinical-stage drug repurposing company that investigates safe, already-approved drugs for new disease applications, moving them efficiently and safely into new human trials, developing new formulations, and seeking new regulatory approvals in global markets. (Formerly known as Breathtec Biomedical.)
Contact: https://algernonpharmaceuticals.com/contact-us/
Website: https://algernonpharmaceuticals.com/
A global full-service digital contract research organization (dCRO) that has pioneered an innovative service model to serve the unique needs of venture-backed, mid-tier, and strategic pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device firms.
Contact: https://www.clinipace.com/contact-us/
Website: https://www.clinipace.com/
Focuses on the powerful wound-healing drug candidate fibroblast growth factor-peptide (FGF-P) and its derivatives. This agent will allow for opportunities from biosecurity to basic research to bone marrow transplantation to tissue engineering.
Contact: gainpep@gmail.com
Website: https://gainpep.com/
Drug discovery and development from marine biology-based research.
Contact: Dr. Pravin Chaturvedi
Website: https://www.oceanyxpharma.com/
A leader in developing in vitro diagnostic products to address unmet clinical needs for the detection of traumatic brain injury.
Contact: https://banyanbio.com/locations.html
Website: https://banyanbio.com/
Banyan Biomarkers, Abbott Ink Deal for Traumatic Brain Injury Biomarkers (April 2019)
UF startup and UF Innovate | Sid Martin Biotech alum Banyan Biomarkers announced that it has nonexclusively licensed its proprietary blood biomarkers of traumatic brain injury (TBI) to Abbott.
The biomarkers — ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase-L1 and glial fibrillary acidic protein — can be detected in blood soon after a brain injury. They are the basis of San Diego-based Banyan’s Brain Trauma Indicator, which received marketing authorization from the US Food and
Drug Administration in early 2018.
Making detection of neurological disorders fast and easy.
Contact: Scott Bearden, Chief Technical Officer
Website: https://www.eeg-now.com/
Developing and commercializing unique, well-characterized antibody reagents and ELISA type assays for academic, biopharmaceutical, and clinical research.
Contact: admin@encorbio.com
Website: https://encorbio.com
Making detection of neurological disorders fast and easy.
Contact: Scott Bearden, Chief Technical Officer
Website: https://www.eeg-now.com/
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
Website: https://www.agroview.ai/
A development-stage biotechnology company developing, producing, and licensing new technologies for crop improvement and pathogen control.
Contact: info@ipgenetics.com
Website: https://www.ipgenetics.com/
INZECTO provides revolutionary, effective & eco-friendly pest control products and systems safe for humans, the environment, pets, fish, and other beneficial insects. Its next-generation, award-winning technology was invented & developed in association with the University of Florida & co-funded by the Pentagon to protect American deployed soldiers.
Contact: https://www.inzecto.com/contact-inz-eco
Website: https://www.inzecto.com/
An unmanned-aircraft solutions provider that integrates engineering and manufacturing with services that enable the technology for federal, state, local, and commercial clients. Altavian is now part of FLIR.
Contact: https://www.altavian.com/contact
Website: https://www.altavian.com/
ChaoLogix was a technology company enabling semiconductor manufacturers to produce integrated circuits with maximum security, safe from malicious side-channel attacks at ultra-low levels of power when it was acquired by Arm in 2018. Arm technologies continuously evolve to ensure intelligence is at the core of a secure and connected digital world. Developed to facilitate the design of modern innovations—from the sensor to the smartphone to the supercomputer—our technologies are making smart possible.
Arm Acquires UF Startup Chaologix for Security Reasons (2018)
Processor IP licensor ARM Ltd. (Cambridge, England) has acquired UF startup ChaoLogix Inc. for an undisclosed sum of money and folded the company into its security operations. ChaoLogix had spent more than a decade developing logic gates that harness the chaos that stems from non-linear physical behavior. Back in 2010, the company was using non-linear physics to create a single circuit that could generate all possible fundamental logic gate outputs, the so-called “chaogate.” At the time the company said the development would have particular significance for data security applications.
Develops products via planarization-enabled technologies used in semiconductor manufacturing for computer chips, solid state lighting, and power devices. Sinmat was acquired by Entegris in 2020.
Contact: https://www.entegris.com/en/home/customer-service/contact-us.html
Website: https://www.entegris.com/
Entegris Acquires UF Startup Sinmat (January 2020)
Entegris, a specialty chemicals and materials company, has acquired UF startup Sinmat, a chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) slurry manufacturer, based in Gainesville, FL.
Sinmat designs and produces CMP slurries used for polishing ultra-hard surface materials, including SiC and GaN.
“Joining Entegris provides us a great opportunity to increase the value we deliver to our customers. The combined technical expertise, global infrastructure, scale, and operational resources will allow us to stay highly focused on product innovation and expand our global reach,” said Rajiv Singh, CEO of Sinmat.
Manufacturing and selling high-value chemicals made from renewable, sustainable feedstocks. Myriant changed its name to GC Innovation America in 2018. PTT Global Chemical acquired In 2011, In 2018, Myriant changed its name to GC Innovation to reflect the new innovation vision for PTT Global Chemicals in North America. The company continues to offer the same performance bio-chemicals and bio-plastics and has expanded its scope to encompass technology scouting and corporate venture capital activities as well as bio-catalyst R&D.
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Myriant Becomes GC Innovation America. A Tactical Move from PTT.
Myriant Becomes GC Innovation America. A Tactical Move from PTT.
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Many organizations locally, statewide and nationally offer resources and funding to help innovators turn ideas into products. Explore funding opportunities and resources such as facilities, market-research databases and professional-development groups.
UF Innovate Business Library Guide
A guide to business library information sources for UF’s technology community, including market research, company and industry profiles and more
UF Innovate | Accelerate @ The Hub
An incubator program providing an innovation ecosystem for connecting all the elements critical to creating and supporting high-tech companies
UF Innovate | Accelerate @ Sid Martin Biotech
A fully equipped bioscience incubation program located in Alachua, Florida
Harbert Venture Partners
Provides growth capital to early-stage information technology and healthcare companies primarily across the Southeastern U.S.
MPM Capital
Seeks out innovative, scientific breakthroughs addressing unmet medical needs, particularly in oncology. The MPM team is exceptionally skilled at working with world-class scientists to create companies with the potential to change the face of medicine. Excels in translating the breakthroughs into clinical results.
Sofinnova HealthQuest Capital
Invests in proprietary healthcare innovation. Target sectors include medical devices, diagnostics, consumer/OTC health, patient care products, mHealth and Health IT that directly impacts patient treatment or care. Especially interested in innovations that provide benefits that can be quantified in terms of both improvements in patient care and outcomes, as well as healthcare economics.
Synogen
A private-equity medical technology development company. Synogen’s consulting group provides services to medical and cleantech companies, and Synogen’s venture fund partners in the creation of selected medical technology companies.
Seed Capital Accelerator Program, Florida Institute for the Commercialization of Public Research
Repayable loans ranging from $50,000 to $300,000 to qualified Institute companies. In order to qualify for consideration for this program, companies must meet the criteria at https://www.florida-institute.com/.
New World Angels
New World Angels (NWA) is a group of private investors dedicated to providing equity capital to early-stage entrepreneurial companies in Florida.
Florida Venture Capital Program
The Florida Venture Capital Program (FLVCP) provides direct investments to increase capital available to small businesses with an emphasis placed on investment opportunities within the State of Florida’s targeted industries. In connection with the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 and the State Small Business Credit Initiative, the FLVCP was funded with approximately $42 million. As of June 30, 2022, the FLVCP completed twenty-one investment commitments, and there are active investments in nine companies.
Emergent Growth Fund, Gainesville
Member-managed angel funds that focus on early stage companies that are developing leading-edge products, or proprietary technologies that possess the potential for rapid growth in significant markets.
Tamiami Angels
A family of angel funds organized to invest in early-stage, high-potential, accelerated-growth companies.
Go Beyond Network, Naples
A group of private accredited investors dedicated to providing early-stage capital to entrepreneur.
MBF Healthcare Partners
A private-equity firm that invests in healthcare companies
Visit Gainesville
The enticement and welcome portal for Alachua County, Florida
Innovation Gainesville
A grassroots movement built on collaboration between scientific and academic research and a thriving tech and health economy
CareerSource North Central Florida
Connects employers and job seekers
Council for Economic Outreach
Alachua County’s designated economic-development entity
National Venture Capital Association (NVCA)
The venture capital industry’s source for advocacy, networking, professional development and information
Angel Capital Association
The trade association of leading angel investment groups in North America
BioFlorida
Works to advance innovations in the healthcare, agriculture and energy sectors.
The Center of Excellence for Regenerative Health Biotechnology (CERHB)’s Education and Training Center
Stimulates promising research and facilitate commercialization of technologies that will provide treatments and cures for human diseases, as well as create new companies and high-wage jobs for Florida.
Enterprise Florida
Serves as Florida’s primary organization devoted to statewide economic development.
Florida’s Bottom Line
CFO Jeff Atwater’s Quarterly Newsletter.
Florida Research Consortium
A strategic partnership of education, business and government formed to advocate knowledge-based economic development in Florida.
Florida Venture Forum
A nonprofit organization that assists entrepreneurial ventures.
Southeast BIO (SEBIO)
Fosters the growth of the life-sciences industry in the Southeast.
Southeast Medical Device Administration (SEMDA)
Supports and promotes medical device companies in the Southeast.
Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM)
Provides professional development and networking opportunities for technology transfer professionals.
Licensing Executives Society (LES)
A society for intellectual property, technology, and business development professionals.
National Business Incubation Association
Organization advancing business incubation and entrepreneurship.
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