Where faculty startups start out
The new 7,500-square-foot KickStart Accelerator provides faculty-founded startups based on UNC-Chapel Hill intellectual property a convenient, collaborative place to grow their companies.
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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Student startups pitch post-pandemic possibilities
UNC-Chapel Hill students competed in the Carolina Challenge Pitch Party by explaining how their startup ventures will make an economic and social impact in a variety of sectors – from ecommerce and fashion to biotechnology and public health.
Carolina moves more research discoveries and inventions to market for commercial impact
During fiscal years 2019 and 2020, Carolina inventors turned an increasing number of ideas from their labs into inventions, patents, technologies and startups that translate into commercial products and services
Innovate Carolina activates network of entrepreneurial mentors to rally local startups
Startup consulting engagements are bringing together a dozen serial entrepreneurs who offer coaching, funding connections and business service support.