Launch Blue Announces Summer ‘25 UAccel Quick Start + I-Corps Cohort
Launch Blue is pleased to announce 10 teams have been selected to participate in the 6-week Summer 2025 UAccel Quick Start + I-Corps program. This is Launch Blue’s fourteenth UAccel cohort.
UAccel Quick Start + I-Corps offers business development and an experiential learning opportunity to innovators in higher education interested in learning the best commercialization path for their technology. The goal of the program is to advance the technology toward commercialization, including preparations for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant applications, the creation of a startup, or licensing of the technology. UAccel Quick Start is organized in partnership with the University of Kentucky’s UK Innovate and Kentucky Commercialization Ventures.
UAccel Quick Start is the first phase of the two-phase program, the second phase is a regional Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program. The National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps program is an immersive, entrepreneurial training program that facilitates the transformation of invention to impact. The University of Kentucky is a member of the NSF’s Mid-South I-Corps Hub and offers a regional I-Corps program through Launch Blue.
Candidates were selected through a competitive application and interview process. The final selections for the cohort were determined by a selection committee appointed by the organizing partners. Applications for the Fall 2025 UAccel Quick Start + I-Corps program will open in late Spring 2025.
The following teams are participating in the Summer 2025 program:
Mark Suckow, Noe Tirado-Muniz
Comparative Medicine Ventures
Surgery platform with a rotating surface with integrated anesthetic/O2 gas lines, integrated electrical heating elements, magnetic leg positioning strap system and optional light source and magnification/camera.
Dave Eaton, Leah Noble, Nik Hochstrasser, George Ma, Gary Cullen, Bob Moore, Michela Martinelli
The Stillage People
A startup concentrating on using liquid waste (or "stillage") that remains after ethanol distillation as an admixture in mortar and concrete in order to improve the workability of fresh concrete and to modify the properties of the hardened mortar and concrete.
Jenalee Hinds
The Stress Performance Evaluation (SPE) application (APP) is to be an artificial intelligence (AI) generated software APP that assesses physiological responses in participants during testing or other activities to measure the levels of stress or test anxiety.
Noah Leibold
AMDx
An assay for amylin-beta-amyloid hetero-oligomers and in the process of developing an amylin-apoE assay, a component of Alzheimer's disease (AD) neuropathology.
Brian Delisle, Elizabeth Schroder Stumpf
ChronoCulture
ChronoCulture is a programmable temperature oscillation system for tissue culture incubators that simulates natural physiological temperature fluctuations in living organisms
Shermiah Holland, Lecresha Sewell
EnVue Health
EnVue Health is a healthcare innovation startup focused on using AI and predictive algorithms to deliver specialized care for those that need access to preventive care and chronic disease management for underserved populations
Nicholas Annichiarico
Discharge Algorithm
A formalized algorithm that can be used to approach the inpatient discharge process.
Rupin Sharma, Paula Farrell
Neonatal Sized Simulation Models
We are developing cost-effective, reusable, anatomically accurate, neonatal-sized simulation models using ballistic gel, gelatin composites, and 3D-printed anatomical structures.
Hunter Colson, Tama The
Sentience AI
Sentience AI is a surgical software platform that will provide real-time, objective breast volume measurements during reconstruction procedures by leveraging light scanning and machine learning. Designed for intraoperative use with accessible tools like smartphones or portable scanners, the system will give surgeons quantitative feedback to support symmetry and reduce revision rates. In the future, this technology could be adapted for other volume-critical procedures such as craniofacial and limb reconstruction.
Kathy Sanders, Jed Sanders
Statshift Systems
STATShift is a one of a kind web based healthcare staffing software designed for specifically for healthcare facilities.