Escape velocity for tech startups.

UK Innovate’s Launch Blue, an immersive accelerator program for tech startups, has announced two new programs designed to support undergraduate students, graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in becoming future leaders of innovation.

Dyscalculia is not a well-known disability, which means that people who experience it have limited help. Jay Hatcher aims to change that. 

Joshua Covington is more familiar than most when it comes to the challenges faced by school systems and educators today. As a former teacher and high school principal, he knows all too well the complicated dynamics at play with teacher shortages, funding issues and waning student engagement.

Renee Gallagher is a self-proclaimed “lifelong learner,” an insatiable reader of research articles, and a lover of solving puzzles. She’s also a dancer, a social innovator, a former small business owner, and a member of the UK College of Medicine Office for Organizational Well-Being (OWB). 

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In this Q&A, Samuel Awuah describes his work developing gold-based compounds to be used in the treatment of diseases such as ulcerative colitis, traumatic brain injury and various forms of cancer.

Melanated Healthcare co-founders Lecresha Sewell, left, and Shermiah Holland will both be representing their company at Techstars Detroit.

A groundbreaking lung cancer screening project co-led by the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center and the University of Colorado (CU) Cancer Center is set to expand its reach, thanks to a $6.8 million grant from the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, an independent charitable organization.  

XLerateHealth (XLH), a nationally recognized healthcare accelerator headquartered in Louisville, KY, in partnership with the University of Kentucky (UK) through UK Innovate, announced the selection of eight innovators across the Southeast IDeA State region (the XLerator Network), to participate in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded IDeA Regional Entrepreneurship Development (I-RED) Program. Participants were selected through a competitive application process for work on technologies that include Medical Devices and Therapeutics.

"As an inventor, it is important for me to understand what users want in order to effectively create a new product that can meet people's needs," Paul said. "After several coaching sessions with excellent coaches, I now know how to discover customers and have an idea of who my potential stakeholders might be."

Launch Blue alum Fair Chance Works helps people recover and re-enter society by placing them into jobs and continuing to support their professional growth.

Launch Blue alum NonBinary Solutions is a culmination of what founder Mandy Ralston has learned within the realm of applied behavior analysis in the form of clinical decision support systems software to better train autism service providers.

Launch Blue alums Seamly and XpressRun were named in the group of 20 KYInno Startups to Watch for 2023.

Congrats to Launch Blue alum Hot Route Analytics on winning the top prize of $25,000.

UAccel alum Dr. Ming-Yuan Chih is featured in “I am a UK Innovator” series.

Launch Blue alum XpressRun is one of the 12 companies selected to participate in Techstars Chicago's "Advancing Cities Fund."

KY270 member PreventScripts expanded to 12 providers using their platform to identify and treat metabolic conditions.

Launch Blue alum Xpressrun was named as one of 12 startups selected for the Google for Startups Accelerator: Black Founders Class of 2022.

Launch Blue alum Melanated Healthcare, led by CEO Lecresha Sewell, was one of six Vogt Award winners for 2022.

UAccel alum and co-founder of Phytogenesis Dr. Aardra Kachroo featured in “I am a UK Innovator” series.

A conversation with Launch Blue alum Janelle Molloy, Founder and CEO of Wild Dog Physics and former Director of Medical Physics in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Kentucky.

Fair Chance Works, Melanated Healthcare, PAVR, PreventScripts, Seamly, and XpressRun received investment from Keyhorse Capital in 2022.

Water Warriors’ patented pellets will be offered through PET in the US, Europe, Canada, South America, China, Australia, and New Zealand.

X10D was one of eight companies to participate in the new Cultivate Appalachia Bootcamp, the first official program of the Appalachian AgriFood Innovation Cluster.

A team of researchers led by Dibakar Bhattacharyya, Ph.D., and his Ph.D. student and UAccel alum, Rollie Mills, have developed a medical face mask membrane that can capture and deactivate the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein on contact.

UAccel alum Dr. Chad Risko featured in “I am a UK Innovator” series.

KY Inno takes a look at PreventScripts, which hopes to bridge the gap of time between provider visits and ultimately delay the development of lifestyle diseases.

LEX18 profiles X10D, an app that helps farmers collect data and streamline their business in seconds. The founders hope it will make Kentucky’s beef industry stronger.

UAccel alum Dr. Ming Yuan Chih featured in “I am a UK Innovator” series.

Spectrum News 1 profiles Melanated Healthcare, an app that aims to decrease health disparities while increasing access to care

Five Launch Blue startups made the list: Active Therapy Systems, BrainSTEM University, PAV*R, Melanated Healthcare, and Synaptek.

AmDx PrognostX and Synaptek were two of 9 Kentucky companies to receive a total of $900,000 in state matching grants.

Smiley Pete Publishing profiles Synaptek, a mobile-first platform to help diagnose concussions in athletes more quickly and effectively.

KY Inno profiles Cellie Coping Company and founder Dr. Meghan Marsac.

KY Inno profiles Dr. Jason Marion and ColiGlow, a low-cost kit that can quantify E. coli from water in low-resource environments.

BrainSTEM University Founder Ricky Mason and Moolathon Founder Mac Wilkinson were named to Endeavor’s black entrepreneurs who are making moves in the Midwest.

UK Now: Beef specialists from the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment and the University of Tennessee created a mobile app called X10D to modernize the way farmers and universities share information.

KY Inno: Moolathon and Synaptek were included in KSTC’s 2021 Q4 investment cycle.

Founder Lecresha Sewell discusses how Melanated Healthcare helps patients find healthcare providers that share their racial identify.