The Vogt Awards provide funding, resources and recognition to entrepreneurs with products in the early growth stage. Vogt Award recipients are chosen from early-stage entrepreneurs in the Louisville area, that have the potential to create a scalable business based on innovative, technology-based products that they develop themselves.

Established by the late Henry V. Heuser Sr. with a $5 million endowment gift to the Community Foundation, the Vogt Invention & Innovation Awards are fueling early-stage manufacturing companies with the region’s only non-dilutive capital for early-stage companies coupled with mentorship and training to launch commercialization.

Applications for the 2017 cohort of the Vogt Awards program are accepted through May 31st.