Are you eligible?
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— UF Affiliation
Active student, postdoc, faculty, staff, or alum within the last year of enrollment. Verified at admission via GatorLink.
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— AI-Native Product
You're training or serving models at a scale where consumer hardware doesn't cut it. Inference workloads count. So do robotics, simulation, scientific ML.
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03
— Willing to Convert
You agree to incorporate (or convert) as a UF-founded entity under the program's standing term sheet. Same terms for every team.
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Three out of three? You're in scope. Read the deal below.
The deal.
— What you get
GPUs.
A lot of them.
- _01GPU allocation across A100 / H100 / H200 nodes
- _02Petabyte-scale parallel storage (Lustre + NVMe)
- _03Dedicated UFRC research-computing consulting hours
- _04Cohort programming + UF founder network
- _05Demo Day in front of NVIDIA, UF Innovate, regional VCs
- _06Lab + desk space at the UF Innovate Hub
— What UF gets
A stake in
what you build.
- _014% common equity — fully diluted, vested over 36 months
- _02Pro-rata participation in next priced round (up to $250k)
- _03One non-voting board observer seat for 24 months
- _04IP licensing terms for any UF-discovered tech you use
- _05Quarterly progress reports + open books on cluster usage
The reach
Talent flows in.
Cycles flow out.
UF-founded AI startups are being built by Gators across the country and across the world — converging here, in Gainesville, on the compute that gets them to the next milestone.
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