The Florida High Tech Corridor in partnership with University of South Florida Research & Innovation is pleased to announce the latest recipients of the Early-Stage Innovation Fund awards. This initiative supports pioneering research projects with significant commercial potential, providing each selected faculty-led team with up to $25,000 in seed funding to advance their innovations toward market readiness. Past awardees have leveraged this funding to launch start-up companies, expand industry and community partnerships and secure more than $650,000 in further investment and grant funding.
The latest awardees reflect the breadth of innovation emerging across the university, with projects addressing critical global challenges — from advancing healthcare training and personalized education to revolutionizing diagnostic technologies, wearable rehabilitation, environmental monitoring and next-generation security solutions.
The awarded projects below are led by faculty from the new Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Computing, Morsani College of Medicine, College of Arts & Sciences and College of Education.
Full story: Early-Stage Innovation Fund awards advance breakthrough technologies in healthcare, education and security
