Launch Blue’s Industry Transformation Accelerator is designed to provide early-stage tech startups with in-depth insights on securing their first corporate clients.Through the virtual 7-week program, startup founders will develop strategies for pilot projects, dilutive and nondilutive funding, and technology adoption—culminating in a pitch to Launch Blue’s corporate innovation partners.

I-Corps Hubs provide experiential entrepreneurial training to academic researchers across all fields of science and engineering. Launch Blue’s Regional I-Corps Program will coincide with our UAccel program.

Launch Blue’s 7-week pre-seed accelerator focuses on training and developing Deep Tech, Technology that Transforms Industries and Innovative Societal Solutions startups to create a funding strategy for success. Startups are educated on using multi-phase federal research grants to develop and de-risk the technology while also learning how to raise dilutive investment dollars at the seed stage level.

The goal of the program is to advance an innovation toward commercialization, including preparations for Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants or National Innovation Corps applications, creation of a startup, or partnering with an established company to license the technology.