Resources

Accelerator, Pre-Accelerator, & Bootcamp Programs

bit502 – coding apprenticeship
CodeLouisville – software development
Forcht Center LaunchIt – Lean Startup training
Louisville Future of Work Initiative – digital skills
Louisville Skills – software development & life skills
Moonshine University – distilling industry
Power to Prosper – minority business accelerator
Team Treehouse – software development
Tech Louisville – IT support
Vogt Awards – tech startup accelerator
Wild Accelerator – for female founders
XLerateHealth – healthcare accelerator

Co-working Spaces & Hackerspaces

31e – co-working space Bardstown Rd
(c)space – co-working space for nonprofits
ChefSpace – commercial kitchen incubator
CO11AB – co-working downtown Louisville
Elevate at Bolt + Tie – co-working in Clarksville, IN
FirstBuild (GE @ UofL) – microfactory & prototyping maker space
Gigabit Experience Center (at LCCC) – meeting and event space
Hopewell – meeting rooms & workspaces in Paristown
iHub – co-working space Nucleus campus
Launch Louisville – co-working space
Lodgic Coworking (NuLu)
LouieLab (City of Louisville) – reservable meeting space for groups and events based in innovation
Love City – business incubation in Portland
LVL1 Hackerspace – Louisville’s hackerspace
Maker13 – maker space in Jeffersonville, IN
The Presley Post – Coworking, Main St Louisville
Story Louisville co-working NuLu
Regus Coworking Louisville – multiple coworking sites
The Root – co-working New Albany, IN
Warp Zone Louisville – game developer co-working and event space
Yes Working – co-working Baxter Ave Louisville

Find Louisville Startups

AngelList – Louisville startups
Crunchbase search (set location to Louisville, KY)
Gust – Louisville startups
Vik Chadha’s Louisville Startup Ecosystem Map

Local/State Government & Non-profit Support Organizations

Amplify Louisville
Canopy
Civic Data Alliance
Community Ventures Corp.
Endeavor Louisville
Forcht Center open office hours at iHub
KY Entrepreneur Network
Kentucky Science & Technology Corp – KSTC
Louisville Metro Dept of Economic Growth & Innovation
Louisville SBDC
RISE Louisville
SBA Louisville
SCORE Louisville
Women’s Business Center of Kentucky

Networking/Educational Groups

1 Million Cups Louisville
Connecting Things
Creative Mornings
Health Enterprises Network
Louisville Digital Association (LDA)
Louisville Makes Games
Louisville Startup Mentors
Louisville Tech Ladies
MetroStart
National Assoc of Women Business Owners
Network of Entrepreneurial Women
New2Lou
Open Coffee
Startup Grind Louisville
Startup Weekend Louisville
Technology Association of Louisville, KY (TALK)
Venture Connectors
Young Professionals Association of Louisville (YPAL)

Other Event Calendars

Greater Louisville Inc event calendar
Louisville tech event calendar

Sources of Early-Stage Funding

Airwing Ventures (Lexington)
Access Ventures (small business loans, equity investments)
Allos Ventures (Cincinnati, Indianapolis)
Bluegrass Angels (group – Lexington)
Boomerang Ventures (Indianapolis)
Cherub Fund (small seed investments in KY startups – Lexington)
Chrysalis Ventures (health care and technology – Louisville)
CincyTech (Cincinnati)
Commonwealth Seed Capital (KY-based companies)
Connetic Ventures (Covington, KY – geographically agnostic)
Crimson Hill (emerging energy technologies)
DS9 Capital (insurance and healthcare tech)
eGateway Capital (Covington, KY)
Elevate Ventures (IN-based companies)
Evermore Investments
Future Labs Capital
Global Equity Ventures (Lexington, angel stage)
Gravity Ventures (Indianapolis, seed-stage fund)
Guerilla VC
H Venture Partners (Cincinnati, OH)
High Alpha Venture Studio (Indianapolis)
IU Ventures (funds startups with direct ties to Indiana University)
Keiretsu Forum Cincinnati
Keyhorse Capital (investment arm of KSTC) (invests in KY-based companies)
KTECH Capital (Northern KY)
KY Angel Investment Tax Credit (info for investors & startups)
LEVO Capital
Lightship Capital (Cincinnati)
Louisville Healthcare CEO Council Aging Innovation Fund
Lunsford Capital
M25 early stage venture capital (Chicago)
Marshall Ventures Fund (Owensboro, KY)
Narwhal Ventures
Neace Ventures (real estate and venture capital)
Outlander Labs (Atlanta: seed-stage investors in tech startups in the SE states)
Poplar Ventures
Purdue Ventures (funding & resources for startups with ties to Purdue University)
Queen City Angels (Cincinnati, OH)
Radicle Capital (social impact investments)
Refinery Ventures (Cincinnati, OH)
Render Capital
RSLP Ventures
SBIR/STTC – federal grants + KY matching
Scalable Ventures (B2B Internet and Mobile Startups – Louisville)
The 6ixth Event
Sheltowee Venture Fund
Slingshot Ventures
Southeast Capital Landscape (sources of capital in the Southeast)
Strike Ventures
Thornton Capital
Unbridled Ventures
VisionTech Angels (Indianapolis)
xCap Angels (Indianapolis)

Web, Software & Hardware Technology Groups

Our friends at LouisvilleTech maintain a comprehensive list of technology groups in Louisville:

Louisville Technology Groups