The Kentucky Community Portal is maintained by Accelerate KY.  The Community Portals are designed to help promote an entrepreneurial ecosystem across the Commonwealth.  With the Community portals, each community is able to establish their only portal where entrepreneurs, investors and entrepreneur support organizations can connect and share information and ideas.  Please help us by participating.  The Kentucky Community Portal is our top level portal with assets and resources from across the state. You can visit our other communities to learn what resources are available in those specific communities. 

Louisville Entrepreneurship Acceleration Programs, or LEAP, offers resources, including educational series, networking events and mentorship opportunities tailored for healthcare startups of all stages. LEAP is where innovators come to meet corporate leaders, understand their pain points, access data available nowhere else, and bridge the gap between product and market.

Come experience the heartbeat of the bluegrass in Lexington, the birthplace of the international bourbon industry and the Horse Capitol of the World.

As the home of some of the world's most recognizable corporations, Lexington makes sure residents have the opportunity to compete for good jobs.

With the University of Kentucky and Transylvania University, two world-class universities, in the heart of our city, students are preparing for any job in any role.

Families can embrace local tradition and international diversity through annual festivals, cultural activities, cuisine, live entertainment, local shops, farmer's markets, parks, and more.

The Louisville Konexon's Community Portal is maintained by the Sheltowee Business Network. On this Community Portal you will find the resources that entrepreneurs need for growing their businesses.  If you have resources or information that you think could be helpful to the Louisville entrepreneurial ecosystem, please feel to reach out to us.  We hope that you find this portal to be helpful and a resource that you come back to.  

About med10VC

• med10VC is a 10-week accelerator program for health innovation startups in the pre-seed and seed stage. At med10VC, we define health innovation as medical devices, diagnostics, and non-regulated Life Sciences technologies such as physician training tools, innovation for hospital system improvement, products for health, wellness, and rehabilitation, etc. Basically, this accelerator is open for all types of technology innovation startups in the Life Sciences space, with the exclusion of companies focused on pharmaceuticals and biotechnologies. med10VC is a subsidiary of Lasing Machine Ventures.

• med10VC is an accelerator set out to make a difference for entrepreneurs, through actionable and practical guidance and support that leads to commercial and long-term success. Our mission is to support underserved populations and encourage and support founders that face obstacles in achieving their dream of entrepreneurship. We favor and prioritize underserved founders to live up to our mission of increasing inclusion and diversity in the startup community.

• med10VC is a 10-week program that covers the key areas for bringing a health innovation idea from conception to commercial distribution. The curriculum is built to follow the general journey from early stage into Series-A and beyond. The 10-weeks consist of weekly lectures from med10VC staff and external experts within various key areas, followed by one-on-one mentorship to apply the weekly covered content individually. This approach leads to actionable outcomes that rapidly advances each company towards commercialization.
   
• The program provided by med10VC is the result of decades of experience with providing mentorship and with running various accelerator and innovation programs across the world. The methodology of, and importance with reaching actionable outcomes stems from both first-hand experience with growing startups and being on the receiving end of mentorship and acceleration programs, coupled with tracking measurable outcomes from mentorship and education to startups. The team behind med10VC are all startup founders and hands-on operators that later in the career have shifted into startup education and mentorship, and are now involved in leading entrepreneurship development globally on many levels including within the US Federal Government. 
   

About Lasting Machine Ventures

The Metals Innovation Initiative was born out of an idea, an idea that doesn’t have a ready-made playbook: How can we create an industry-led organization that collaborates with governmental, educational, and other stakeholders to solve the most pressing challenges and capture opportunities that our organizations cannot easily address on their own? There are numerous examples of collaboration between industry and education, government and industry, and government and education. MI2’s concept is to bring those collaborations under one roof to form an ecosystem, guide it, and empower it to drive innovation and shape the future of the metal industry.
 

The Morehead Space Science Center Konexon's Community Portal provides information and resources for entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs.  You will be able to find the information and resources you need to commercialize technologies here.  

At the heart of MSU's Department of Physics, Earth Science and Space Systems Engineering is the Ronald G. Eaglin Space Science Center (SSC). The facility houses state-of-the-art equipment and laboratories that will give you valuable hands-on learning experiences. The Space Science Center is home to MSU's Program of Distinction, the Bachelor of Science in Space Systems Engineering.

MSU's Space Science Center was recently named the best aerospace research and development center in Kentucky by Southern Business and Development magazine, beating out research and development programs at Eastern Kentucky University, the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville.

The SSC has become an important center for research in nanosatellite technologies. CubeSats are "loaf of bread" or smaller-sized nanosatellites that have become the defacto world-wide standard for small satellite technologies. CubeSats are 10 x 10 x 10 cm (or by 20 or 30 cm in length) satellites that weigh under 1 kg per unit. The recent evolution of micro/nanotechnologies and microelectronics has facilitated the development of these inexpensive, highly capable small satellites that are now being flown by NASA, the U.S. Department of Defense, aerospace companies and universities around the globe. CubeSats, including those developed at the SSC, are used for a wide variety of applications ranging from tactical defense to scientific research (including astrophysics research and Earth phenomena and resource monitoring) to practical applications ranging from communications to relaying data from ground sensors. CubeSats are considered "disruptive technology" by the world-wide aerospace industry because they can provide some of the same services as conventional satellites at a fraction of the cost and with short development times - and MSU is at the forefront of this emerging technology.

Murray is a home rule-class city in Calloway County, Kentucky, United States. It is the seat of Calloway County and the 19th-largest city in Kentucky. The city's population was 17,741 during the 2010 U.S. census, and its micropolitan area's population is 37,191. Murray is a college town and is the home of Murray State University.

Northern Kentucky is the third-largest metropolitan area in the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky after Louisville and Lexington, and its cities and towns serve as the de facto "south side" communities of Cincinnati, Ohio. The three main counties of this metro area are Boone, Kenton, and Campbell Counties along the Ohio River (shown in red on the map), with other counties also included. The label "Northern Kentucky" (abbreviated NKY) is used to demonstrate the common identity shared across county and city lines by the residents of these northern counties. Arguably, the label seeks to reverse the divisions that occurred to Campbell County, which, in 1794, included the land of Boone, Kenton, Pendleton Counties, and most of Bracken and Grant Counties. The urban and suburban areas of the northern counties are densely populated. Indeed, of Greater Cincinnati's over two million residents, 450,994 of them live in Northern Kentucky (as of 2019), with the three most northern counties contributing 394,163 residents themselves. The largest cities In each of the three most northern counties are Covington, Florence, and Fort Thomas.