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Come enjoy wine, beer and our special "startup stinger" cocktail while networking with GAIN stakeholders and friends!  Co-sponsored by Research 2 Revenue, LLC, the event will cost $5.00 for GAIN Stakeholders and $10.00 for future Stakeholders.  See you there! See More

Announcing GAIN's Fast Pitch Event!An elevator pitch is a brief, concise telling of your company’s story in a short enough time that even the investors with a really short attention span will hear you out. An effective elevator pitch isn’t about talking fast or being good at winging it on the spot – its about taking time in advance to carefully craft a very concise statement with the most important facts about your business and practicing the delivery. Many investors consider this the most…See More

BioFL - Celebration of BiotechnologySave the date - 11:00 AM -2:00 PMJoin the hundreds that will come to the 7th annual event in the Progress Corporate Park.Local biotechnology companies will be highlighted and will present at this years event.Stay tuned for more details and read about last year's event in the following link from the Gainesville Sun:…See More

Join us at a free, 2 hr symposium as a panel of banking execs and entrepreneurs engages each other and the audience to make progress toward improving communication and LOCAL banking/financial services to tech/biotech companies. Sponsored by the Sid Martin Biotech Incubator program. Jamie Grooms, CEO, Axogen and Tom Mallini, CEO, M&S Bank are among the panelists. RSVP 386-462-0880.

Our Celebration of Innovation is a unique opportunity to see sixteen start-up companies in the areas of life sciences, medical devices, and information technology that are commercializing the latest in cutting-edge technologies generated as a result of the almost $600 million in research conducted at UF. Those interested in licensing, commercializing, investing or otherwise becoming involved with getting new discoveries into the marketplace will want to mark their calendars to attend the fourth…See More