PatentIt, a patent analytics and filing tool, was awarded first place in this year’s UF AI Days Pitch Competition. The platform uses an AI search feature that provides a sentence-by-sentence analysis and risk score to help simplify the patent process
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Ideas in motion
The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center at the Warrington College of Business is home to the next great business ideas. Whether that comes by equipping students with an entrepreneurial mindset or through innovative research that shapes the future, the center is
Cordelia Biosciences wins 2024 Big Idea Competition
Cordelia Biosciences won first place in this year’s Big Idea Competition. Founded by ecological scientists Jessica Tittl Nielsen (PhD ’24) and Monica Schul (PhD ’25), Cordelia Biosciences is a biotechnical startup that uses natural, microscopic organisms from the ocean to
UF Innovate Startups Transition into 35 Mules Program for Continued Growth
Three companies created by University of Florida students with vastly different ideas find their journeys intertwined through their foundational education at UF, participation in the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Center’s Big Idea Competition, and subsequent incubation at the 35 Mules Innovation
Warrington alumni make up almost 40% of 2024 Gator100
The University of Florida recognized the world’s fastest-growing Gator Businesses the weekend of April 19-20, and 36 Warrington alumni were named on the 2024 Gator100 list. Warrington alumni led in the top 5 Gator100 businesses. Transfr, an emerging leader in
A Time to Weep, A Time to Laugh
Aron Weingard (BSBA ’07, MSE ‘09) is a 2023 40 Gators Under 40 honoree who helps some of the 6 million American kids who bury a parent or sibling before graduating high school. Read how Weingard makes a difference through
Marty Schaffel: First-hand insights from a successful entrepreneur
In the years after he graduated from the University of Florida, Marty Schaffel (BA, BSBA ’76) took on a few different roles in management and sales, but it wasn’t until he started his own company at age 27 that he
UF student business competition deadline nears, $25,000 prize at stake
University of Florida students have until Dec. 15 to sign up for the opportunity to win $25,000 in the 2024 Big Idea Gator Business Plan Competition. Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center Director Jamie Kraft shares more about the competition and its
Candor wins UF AI Days Pitch Competition
Candor, a virtual communications company, was awarded first place in this year’s UF AI Days Pitch Competition. The company uses artificial intelligence to create a user-friendly platform for constituents to voice their complaints to local governance, providing an app that
Giving to support innovation
When Joan and Chester Luby moved to Florida in 2005, they wanted to work with a major university in the state to strengthen the future of innovation and entrepreneurship. Through the Joan & Chester Luby Charitable Trust, the couple recently
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