TAO Connect’s Online Therapy Finds New Niches
A partnership between UF startup TAO Connect and the University of Ottawa may be just the beginning of an expansion that will give the St. Petersburg tech company a broader presence and new groups of people to serve. TAO — which stands for Therapy Assistance Online and has a digital platform aimed at making behavioral […]
UF Innovate | The Hub Resident Client Admiral Announces 15,000 Customer Milestone and Over $5M Raised to Help Digital Publishers Grow Visitor Revenue
UF Innovate | The Hub, a leading business incubator in the University of Florida business incubation system, announced that resident client Admiral, a pioneering innovator in adblock recovery and digital subscriptions, has closed a strategic investment round and raised over $5 million. Admiral specializes in building strong online visitor relationships for publishers that lead to […]
Jeffrey Goodman to Join as Sales and Marketing Advisor
UF Innovate | The Hub resident client Antibiotic Adjuvant announced that Jeff Goodman will join the company as a Marketing and Sales Advisor. Jeff has extensive entrepreneurial experience, as well as expertise in business leadership, strategic plan creation and execution, sales management and performance improvement. Jeff’s passion is creating and leading customer-focused sales programs from […]
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 to target the “bad” while […]
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 Reality a Little Easier for […]
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 100 fastest-growing businesses owned or […]
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 Animal Health’s Innovax® range of […]
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 that space travel has on […]
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 be grown in space. The […]
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, Florida. IHMI brings together experts […]