UF Innovate offers a variety of paid internships to upper-level undergraduate and grad students, as well as postdocs working in research at UF. Interns are exposed to a unique blend of disciplines and a variety of projects that UF Innovate’s ecosystem provides each day.
Intern positions are paid and benefits include access to startups and other entrepreneurial professionals who work in UF Innovate | Accelerate @ The Hub, where the main offices for UF Innovate are located. The first building in the Gainesville Innovation District, The Hub is a unique business incubator that shortens the journey from discovery to the marketplace for Florida’s tech startup companies.
Graduate and Ph.D. students interested in an internship but already receiving compensation from UF may volunteer to benefit from the experience or apply for an hours extension. Postdocs are only able to volunteer.
*Grad and Ph.D. students who apply for and receive an hours extension permit to get paid for work at UF Innovate are often limited to much fewer hours with our office. We make exceptions to the hours required weekly for those interns.
UF Innovate offers a variety of paid internships to upper-level undergraduate and grad students, as well as postdocs working in research at UF.
UF Innovate Startup Primer
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
Gainesville Connect
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’s Education and Training Center
The Center of Excellence for Regenerative Health Biotechnology (CERHB) 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.
Being a computer science geek, digging into these technologies was a mix of “Aha!” moments and a bit of head-scratching. From biomedical breakthroughs to aerospace wonders and material science marvels,
Being a computer science geek, digging into these technologies was a mix of “Aha!” moments and a bit of head-scratching. From biomedical breakthroughs to aerospace wonders and material science marvels,
Being a computer science geek, digging into these technologies was a mix of “Aha!” moments and a bit of head-scratching. From biomedical breakthroughs to aerospace wonders and material science marvels,
Being a computer science geek, digging into these technologies was a mix of “Aha!” moments and a bit of head-scratching. From biomedical breakthroughs to aerospace wonders and material science marvels,
747 Southwest 2nd Avenue, Suite 108
Gainesville, FL 32601
UF Innovate | Tech Licensing
P.O. Box 115575
Gainesville, FL 32611-5575
Tech Licensing: (352) 392-8929
Ventures: (352) 392-8929
Pathways: (352) 392-2577
The Hub: (352) 294-0885
747 SW 2nd Avenue
Gainesville, FL 32601
Sid Martin Biotech: (386) 462-0880
12085 Research Drive
Alachua, FL 32615
