Licensing & Ventures Group

Enterprise Studio

“We have been designing the Enterprise Studio to be the place where UVA faculty members, research staff and graduate students bring the best ideas for the creation of products and organizations that will impact the world." -- Managing Director Lisa Bowers
Lisa Bowers is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Michigan and moved to Charlottesville in 2023 after a career as a biotech executive and venture fund founder in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the founding Managing Director of the Enterprise Studio.

The Enterprise Studio is a free service designed for faculty, research staff and graduate students who are interested in pathways to commercialize their ideas and innovation.

The Studio is built to serve every school on Grounds and will support faculty, research staff and graduate students who are considering simple revenue-based businesses that are emerging from research at UVA, private companies that may someday be financed by venture capital and non-profit social impact start-ups.

We are busy meeting with faculty, research staff and graduate students from across Grounds to learn how the Studio can serve each school uniquely. And we are connecting with existing and potential founders to support them as they make decisions about their work.

We are:

Open.

Warm.

Responsive.

And serious about this effort.

And our aim is to encourage you, whatever your goals are for delivering real-world impact through your research.

Want to meet? The Enterprise Studio is above Kardinal Hall, adjacent to LVG's headquarters at 722 Preston Ave. You’ll need access to get in the building, so let us know you’re coming by emailing operations manager Dawn Kidd at dmk7e@virginia.edu.

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Even if you're not sure you're ready for next steps, reach out. We'd love to help.

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Opportunities Around Town

The Studio is a collaborative effort between UVA Innovates and UVA’s Licensing & Venture Group. We are already collaborating across Grounds and the broader Charlottesville community to share information and opportunities with our faculty, research staff and graduate students. We are happy to help connect you with any or all of the programs listed below. Check back here for more updates as we gather more news from our partners.

  • Please join us on Thursday, Feb. 20 from 3:30 to 6 p.m. at the School of Data Science for UVA's Innovator of the Year event. This year's winners are UVA professors Silvia Blemker and Craig Meyer, and former UVA professor Joe Hart. Their company, Springbok Analytics, invented an AI-based muscle health analysis of MR images that received FDA clearance in October and now is being used by players in the NBA, NFL, MLB and Premier League! Registration, admission and parking are free. Check out this cool feature on Springbok in UVA Today.
  • Consider signing up for LVG's I-Corps, an immersive program for University researchers translating discoveries and inventions into impact, which starts in March.
  • Registration for the Batten Institute’s 2025 i.Lab Incubator is now open.
  • The National Science Foundation and the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation are collaborating for a workshop in Richmond on March 20 that provides instruction on how to plan and write a competitive SBIR/STTR proposal to the NSF.
  • UVA Biomedical Engineering Chair Shayn Peirce-Cottler is hosting a seminar April 18 with Terry Layton from the University of Illinois at Chicago
  • The CvilleBioHub is recruiting companies for their new Commonwealth BioAccelerator.