Three startups with University of Louisville ties recently brought in a combined $1.4 million in funding,聽according to ,聽the Louisville chamber of commerce.
Those startups are:
Meta Construction LLC听($350,000). Nick McRae and Max Kommor founded Meta Construction, a construction technology company, as students in the UofL Entrepreneurship MBA program. They , BlackTop, a software platform that lets asphalt contractors locate dump trucks and get the right number to construction sites. They also previously participated in UofL’s (I-Corps) site program.聽
Innovative Therapeutix听($250,000). Innovative Therapeutix is collaborating with UofL to develop , a . The company was founded by聽Michael Detmer, a UofL adjunct professor of music therapy, and聽Rebekah Gossom, a Norton Healthcare speech-language pathologist. They worked with the UofL聽Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) to protect and commercialize the technology, and also participated in the聽 site and 聽programs at UofL.
Vivorte听($800,000). Vivorte 聽invented by UofL associate professor of bioengineering,聽Dr. Michael Voor. Voor worked with the OTT to protect the intellectual property and come up with a commercialization strategy, resulting in licensing to the UofL start-up company, Vivorte.聽 Vivorte has received FDA clearance to .
