Louisville Startup Community & Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

1. Networks

1.1. Greater Louisville Health Enterprises Network (GLHEN)

1.2. Entrepreneurial Advocates (Jim Williams)

1.3. Louisville Small Business Development Center (SBDC)

1.4. National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO)

1.5. Network of Entrepreneurial Women

1.6. SCORE Louisville

1.7. TALK (Technology Association of Louisville Kentucky)

1.8. Tri-State Minority Supplier Development Council (TSMSDC)

1.9. Venture Connectors (formerly Venture Club of Louisville)

1.10. Young Professional Association of Louisville (YPAL)

2. Activities

2.1. 1 Million Cups

2.2. CreativeMornings

2.3. Idea Festival

2.4. Louisville Digital Association

2.5. Netowkr + Chill

2.6. Startup Grind

3. University of Louisville

3.1. Forcht Center for Entrepreneurship

3.1.1. LaunchIt Program

3.2. UofL IMBA

3.3. UofL Family Business Center

3.4. Office of Research and Innovation

4. Incubators / Accelerators / Maker Spaces / Co-Working Spaces / Education

4.1. Programs

4.1.1. 3D Printing Academy for Girls

4.1.2. Empowered

4.1.3. Endeavor Louisville

4.1.4. JA Biztown Summer Camp

4.1.5. Kentucky Governor's Scholars Program

4.1.6. KY Governor's School for Entrepreneurs

4.1.7. KY Dataseam

4.1.8. Moonshine University

4.1.9. Vissionaireum

4.1.10. Vogt Awards

4.1.11. Wild Accelerator

4.1.12. XLerateHealth

4.2. Space

4.2.1. Chef Space

4.2.2. (c)space

4.2.3. Louisville Bespoke

4.2.4. Love City

4.2.5. LVL1 Hackerspace

4.2.6. Maker13

4.2.7. NIA Center

4.2.8. Purdue Tech Center

4.2.9. Warp Zone

4.3. Business Plan Competitions

4.3.1. UofL Cardinal Challenge

5. Service Providers

5.1. Accounting

5.1.1. DMLO CPAs

5.1.2. Ernst and Young

5.1.3. Mounjoy Chilton Medley

5.1.4. Strothman and Company

5.2. HR

5.2.1. EmPowerHR

5.2.2. Integrity HR

5.3. Custom Software Development / BPO

5.3.1. GlowTouch

5.3.2. Slingshot

5.3.3. Interapt

5.3.4. Mission Data

5.3.5. Prosoft

5.3.6. Rivera Group

5.3.7. V-Soft Consulting Group

5.4. IT

5.4.1. Advanced Solutions

5.4.2. BluegrassNet

5.4.3. Coastal Cloud

5.4.4. Discernity

5.4.5. MCM Technology Solutions

5.4.6. Louisville Geek

5.4.7. NetGain Technologies

5.4.8. Oasis Solutions Group

5.4.9. The AME Group

5.4.10. Security Pros

5.4.11. Strategic Communications

5.4.12. Technology Plus

5.5. Digital Marketing Agency / Studio

5.5.1. Amazing Robot & Sons

5.5.2. ADK Group

5.5.3. Bryan Patrick Todd

5.5.4. FieldTrip

5.5.5. Kale & Flax

5.5.6. KBD

5.5.7. Kitestring Visuals

5.5.8. Leap (human)x

5.5.9. Mediaura

5.5.10. Mightily

5.5.11. Oohology

5.5.12. Smartbox Web Marketing

5.5.13. Strategic Marketing Services

5.5.14. WordsFresh

5.6. Engineering

5.6.1. Arrow Electric

5.6.2. Donan Engineering

5.7. Legal

5.7.1. Dentons Bingham Greenebaum

5.7.2. Fort Phelps

5.7.3. Frost Brown Todd

5.7.4. Seiller Waterman

5.7.5. Stites & Harbison

5.7.6. Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs

5.8. Finance / M&A

5.8.1. American Fortune

5.8.2. Venture First

5.8.3. Venture Resource

5.9. Strategic Planning

5.9.1. The Wunderlin Company

5.10. Analytics

5.10.1. Untitled Firm

5.11. Product Development

5.11.1. Additive Manufacturing Institute of Science & Technology

5.12. Supply Chain

5.12.1. HJI Supply Chain Solutions

6. City/State Economic Development

6.1. KY Innovation

6.1.1. KSTC

6.1.1.1. KY Enterprise Fund

6.1.1.2. KSEF

6.1.1.2.1. SBIR/STTR Phase Zero/Double Zero Grants

6.1.2. Amplify Louisville

6.1.2.1. RevIt Program

7. Capital

7.1. Seed/Angel

7.1.1. 6ith Event

7.1.2. Bluegrass Angels (Lexington)

7.1.3. Commonwealth Seed Capital

7.1.4. Keyhorse Capital

7.1.5. Render Capital

7.1.6. Scalable Ventures

7.1.7. Unbridled Ventures

7.2. Venture Capital / Private Equity

7.2.1. Allos Ventures

7.2.2. Chrysalis Ventures

7.2.3. CID Capital

7.2.4. Drive Capital

7.2.5. Meritus Ventures

7.2.6. Patoka Capital

7.2.7. Poplar Ventures

7.2.8. RC Capital

7.2.9. River Hill Capital

8. Acquisitions & IPOs

8.1. 3DR Laboratories

8.2. Accent Intermedia

8.3. Advanced Imaging Concepts

8.4. Apellis Pharmaceuticals (IPO)

8.5. Aperity

8.6. Aperture Credentialing

8.7. Appriss Insights

8.8. Aptamera

8.9. Backupify

8.10. Capture

8.11. Chapman Kelly

8.12. Charah

8.13. CIAgent

8.14. Clipper Data

8.15. Codigo

8.16. ConnectSoft

8.17. Cuddle Clones

8.18. Dealer Car Search

8.19. Deyta

8.20. Elmcroft

8.21. Generation Tux

8.22. Genscape

8.23. High Speed Access (IPO)

8.24. Hosting.com

8.25. Indatus

8.26. iPay Technologies

8.27. Iron Triangle Payment Systems

8.28. Koligo Therapeutics

8.29. LABSCO

8.30. Lawn Solutions Commercial Products

8.31. Louisville Slugger

8.32. Lucina Analytics

8.33. MailHaven

8.34. MaximumASP

8.35. MedAssist

8.36. MedVenture

8.37. Modern Gigabyte

8.38. Motorcycle Superstore

8.39. Narrowcast Partners

8.40. NicView

8.41. NX Prenatal

8.42. Onovative

8.43. Over (acq. by GoDaddy)

8.44. Payment Alliance International

8.45. Peak 10

8.46. PetFirst

8.47. Podchaser

8.48. RentalHouses.com

8.49. Rabbit Hole Distillery

8.50. Revon Systems

8.51. RéVive Skin Care

8.52. RowdMap

8.53. RxCrossroads

8.54. Sierra Interactive

8.55. Service Net

8.56. SkuVault

8.57. Smoothstone IP Communications

8.58. Splash Analytics

8.59. StoneStreet One

8.60. Street Moda

8.61. SureGene

8.62. SuperFanU

8.63. TechRepublic

8.64. TechShot

8.65. Telapoint

8.66. Telemics

8.67. The Learning House

8.68. VoicePad

8.69. WhiteBox Learning

8.70. Zirmed

9. Intrapreneurship

9.1. GE/Haier

9.1.1. FirstBuild

9.2. Humana Innovation Center

9.3. Kindred Healthcare

9.3.1. Hive

9.4. Louisville Water Company

10. Companies

10.1. Software/Tech

10.1.1. Adder Analytics

10.1.2. Affinna

10.1.3. Autodemo

10.1.4. Bellwether Software

10.1.5. Brite Trace

10.1.6. BrioCare

10.1.7. BroadLoop

10.1.8. Captain

10.1.9. Clover Learning

10.1.10. CNA Online

10.1.11. Connect

10.1.12. Credit Fair-e

10.1.13. Dealter Trade Network

10.1.14. DiningTek

10.1.15. Eagle 6

10.1.16. El Toro

10.1.17. EZ-Chow

10.1.18. Facility One

10.1.19. FindCRA

10.1.20. Glennis Solutions

10.1.21. GoodMaps

10.1.22. Hellospoke

10.1.23. HiveDesk

10.1.24. Forecastr

10.1.25. Gamerabble

10.1.26. GoWild

10.1.27. Innovative Therapeutix

10.1.28. Iristrac

10.1.29. Kare Mobile

10.1.30. Lenderfit

10.1.31. Lightbird.ai

10.1.32. Likefolio

10.1.33. Lokator Pitching Academy

10.1.34. MobileServe

10.1.35. Moolathon

10.1.36. My Home Platform

10.1.37. Quantum Leap

10.1.38. RedeApp

10.1.39. ParentMD

10.1.40. Pavr

10.1.41. PrepSharp

10.1.42. Repaytient

10.1.43. Resound

10.1.44. Revoyant

10.1.45. Roborus

10.1.46. Sensegrass

10.1.47. SplitPass

10.1.48. STEM Wizard

10.1.49. Stuccco

10.1.50. Studium Dekor

10.1.51. Switcher Studio

10.1.52. The CMOOR Group

10.1.53. TitleWise

10.1.54. Venminder

10.1.55. Virtual Peaker

10.1.56. Vsimple

10.1.57. Unitonomy

10.1.58. Veeper

10.1.59. Xena Intelligence

10.1.60. XpressRun

10.2. HealthCare

10.2.1. 1109 Bravo

10.2.2. AdaptiveEndo

10.2.3. Advantum Health

10.2.4. BehaVR

10.2.5. BFW

10.2.6. Breath Diagnostics

10.2.7. Cognision

10.2.8. eBlu Solutions

10.2.9. Handle Global

10.2.10. Liberate Medical

10.2.11. LockUpLead

10.2.12. MEMStim

10.2.13. My Rehab Pro

10.2.14. PharmaCord

10.2.15. NormaLyte

10.2.16. Pronia Medical Systems

10.2.17. RxLightning

10.2.18. SentryHealth (Edumedics)

10.2.19. Synchrony Health

10.2.20. Toggle Health

10.2.21. Wicked Sheets

10.3. Life Sciences

10.3.1. Advanced Cancer Therapeutics

10.3.2. CreoSalus

10.3.3. NX PharmaGen

10.3.4. Talaris

10.3.5. US WorldMeds

10.3.6. Vivorte

10.4. CleanTech

10.4.1. Advanced Energy Materials

10.4.2. West Wind Power

10.5. Products

10.5.1. Cartainers

10.5.2. Light Up

10.5.3. MXD Process

10.5.4. Shady Rays

10.5.5. Stinger Equipment

10.6. Electronics

10.6.1. Artemis Electronics

10.6.2. Blinky Bling

10.6.3. IGear

10.6.4. iKeyless

10.7. NanoTechnology

10.7.1. Nauga Needles

10.7.2. Optical Dynamics

10.8. E-Commerce

10.8.1. Avante Medical Surgical

10.8.2. Donna Sharp Inc.

10.8.3. Global Aviation Navigator

10.8.4. Misc. Goods Co.

10.8.5. Shippers Supply Company

10.9. Media

10.9.1. Flyover Future

10.9.2. Horse Racing Nation

10.9.3. Louisville Hot Bytes

10.9.4. MedCity News

10.9.5. Networld Media Group

10.9.6. Resonate Recordings

10.10. Food & Beverages

10.10.1. Beyond Zero

10.10.2. Bourbon Barrel Foods

10.10.3. CandyRific

10.10.4. Elixir Kombucha

10.10.5. FreshFry

10.10.6. Louisville Vegan Jerky Co.

10.10.7. Pruvit

10.10.8. Victory Hemp Foods

10.11. Originated in Louisville

10.11.1. Beam

10.11.2. Kodable

10.11.3. KYPHA

10.11.4. Reputation.com