{"id":54650,"date":"2009-11-11T13:49:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T18:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technologytransfertactics.com\/content\/?p=5271"},"modified":"2009-11-11T13:49:22","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T18:49:22","slug":"u-florida-consultant-partner-to-attract-government-funds-for-start-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/54650","title":{"rendered":"U-Florida, consultant partner to attract government funds for start-ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Florida has inked an agreement with Sterling, VA-based G4i Consulting to provide government business development services to UF-affiliated technology companies. The agreement has the potential to bring several hundred million dollars in new government contracts to UF&#8217;s incubator companies and to increase licensing revenues for the university. The goal is to establish a fund that will accelerate the commercialization of UF&#8217;s start-ups by introducing them directly to government clients and <em>Fortune <\/em>500 companies operating in the government contracting space. Plans call for the fund initially to support the creation of a dedicated business development &#8220;Gator Team&#8221; for five to seven portfolio companies. Drawing on G4i&#8217;s customer relationship management system, E PROMIS, and its proprietary business intelligence, each Gator Team will work with G4i to focus the strategy, business, and marketing plans of its incubator companies and develop a proposal aimed at winning multi-billion-dollar contracts over a two-year period. &#8220;As focused as we are on driving licensing, we&#8217;re also seeking out relationships that will set our start-ups on a path for success,&#8221; says David Day, director of UF&#8217;s Office of Technology Licensing. &#8220;UF&#8217;s affiliation with G4i introduces our incubator companies to the largest consumer in the world. The U.S. government buys more than $300 billion of goods and services annually. We believe this can be a powerful engine for fast tracking the university&#8217;s technologies into the marketplace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As part of its own expansion efforts, G4i plans to open its flagship on-site presence at UF&#8217;s Florida Innovation Hub &#8212; a 45,000-sq.ft. &#8220;super&#8221; incubator for scientists, investors, and entrepreneurs expected to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologytransfertactics.com\/content\/2009\/08\/12\/university-of-florida-to-create-132m-innovation-hub\/\">open in December 2011<\/a>. G4i&#8217;s dedicated Gator Teams will be housed on-site to assist in market research, business development, and proposal management. In the meantime, G4i expects to begin the appraisal and evaluation of UF start-ups in the fourth quarter of 2009. G4i is currently capitalizing the fund with VC, hedge fund, and private equity relationships.<\/p>\n<p>Visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.g4ichannel.com\" >G4i Channel<\/a><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Florida has inked an agreement with Sterling, VA-based G4i Consulting to provide government business development services to UF-affiliated technology companies. The agreement has the potential to bring several hundred million dollars in new government contracts to UF&#8217;s incubator companies and to increase licensing revenues for the university. The goal is to establish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}