Innovation & Commercialization
Build and Scale
Launch, grow and accelerate your startup
Whether you are building a company around a USF invention, developing your own venture or preparing an existing startup for its next stage of growth, USF Innovation & Commercialization can help you find the right resources.
Explore support for company formation, venture development, mentorship, market validation, specialized facilities, funding readiness and connections across USF’s innovation ecosystem.
Find the Right Path for Your Startup
Evolve Your Business Idea
The Evolve Accelerator, housed within USF CONNECT, supports high-potential, innovation-driven startups as
they move from early development into growth and scale. Evolve is designed for founders
who are beyond the initial idea stage and are ready to grow as founders, validate
their market, strengthen their business model, and prepare for commercialization and
investment.
Through structured training, mentorship, and accountability, Evolve helps founders
build sustainable, investable ventures by aligning strategy, operations, and execution
with real-world market and funding expectations.
Launch a Company
The USF Ventures Launch Program helps move promising university technologies beyond the lab and launch as startup companies. Selected technologies receive structured venture development support designed to strengthen the opportunity, build the company and prepare it for investment and market entry.
Explore the USF Ventures Launch Program
Scale with USF CONNECT
USF CONNECT helps technology and life science entrepreneurs launch and scale their companies through incubators, accelerators, mentorship, educational programs, facilities and connections to the broader entrepreneurial community.
Tampa Bay Technology Incubator
Access mentorship, startup programming, professional office space, wet and dry laboratories,
shared equipment and a community of technology and life science entrepreneurs.
Student Innovation Incubator
USF undergraduate and graduate students can build companies around their own ideas
or explore opportunities to commercialize existing USF technologies.
Discover USF Startup Companies
USF startup companies are advancing university-developed technologies across health, engineering, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, sustainability and other fields.
Explore companies created to bring USF research and intellectual property closer to the marketplace.
Ready to Move Your Company Forward?
Connect with USF Innovation & Commercialization to identify the programs, people and resources that best fit your startup’s needs and stage of development.