November 15, 2021

The Cincinnati Innovation District ® (CID) and UC’s 1819 Innovation Hub corporate partner FIS held a national student hackathon tasking teams with solving financial inclusion challenges many people face every day. The competition's winning team from Wisconsin took their concept, an app designed to help underprivileged people gain financial independence, through UC's Venture Lab pre-accelerator cohort 16 to successfully bring their startup to market.

November 16, 2021

The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) today named University of Cincinnati (UC) a 2021 Innovation & Economic Prosperity (IEP) Awardee for the category of Talent. The awards recognize innovative projects or programs in economic engagement.

November 16, 2022

University of Cincinnati President Neville Pinto, UC Executive Vice President Ryan Hays, Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted and entrepreneurs within the Cincinnati Innovation District today celebrated the economic impacts of the Ohio IP Promise — a statewide commercialization initiative launched in 2019 that streamlines the patent and licensing process, enabling inventors to own their intellectual property.

November 17, 2022

Researchers at colleges and universities across Ohio used to face a number of obstacles when it came to commercializing their ideas.

April 25, 2022

University of Cincinnati Venture Lab-backed startup Cinthesis is gaining interest from companies that are adding new products and want to go green, WVXU reported.

May 4, 2022

University of Cincinnati Venture Lab-backed startup Band Connect is nearing a close on its pre-seed round of funding and will start a military pilot with the Department of Defense, the Cincinnati Business Courier reported.

May 2, 2022

A dream of ridding the oceans of plastic pollutants brought Clean Earth Rovers to the University of Cincinnati’s 1819 Innovation Hub, where the startup developed an autonomous rover that soon will take to the water.

July 11, 2022

Helping the 10% of adults who suffer shortness of breath as a result of lung disease is just one of the ways a University of Cincinnati Venture Lab-backed startup expects to improve people’s lives.

May 16, 2022

Software technology from a University of Cincinnati Venture Lab-backed startup that focuses on records management and data analytics is helping law enforcement agencies more efficiently manage and share data to help solve crime.

November 21, 2022

A boomerang best describes Dan Whitacre’s career path. No matter where the flight course led, he always returned to Kroger. Five times over the last four decades. As senior director of Kroger Labs and Transformation, a University of Cincinnati alumnus and adjunct professor, Whitacre is the first to tell you that his career journey studying to be an electrical engineer and computer programmer has had many twists and turns.