November Demo Night

Join a Claude Community Event, organized by local enthusiasts for everyone who loves building with Claude! Bring your laptop. Make sure you have a Claude account when attending. We will be in room 230.

Founders & Friends: Year-End Happy Hour This year, the UC Venture Lab's founders did the hard part. They validated problems, built prototypes, landed pilots, raised capital, and hired their first employees. Join us to celebrate the founders, mentors, Executives in Residence, investors, and partners who made it a year of great work. Why we're gathering outside 1819 The 1819 Innovation Hub is where many of our companies start. More and more of them are also leaving it, and that's the point. Our startups are growing out of the co-working desk and the Makerspace bench and into labs, offices, and production space across the Cincinnati Innovation District. That's why we're hosting this year's celebration at Digital Futures, one of the district's anchors for research in emerging technology. The district is where university research, corporate partners, and startups share the same few blocks. Discoveries can move from lab to license to launch without leaving the neighborhood. It's also where our thesis plays out. Health tech companies build on UC's medical and clinical expertise. Deep tech and AI startups spin out of the Office of Research and our engineering and computing programs. Hard tech founders design advanced materials, aerospace, and manufacturing solutions they can prototype and scale here. The Innovation District gives these companies a place to grow up, not just start up. What to expect Drinks and bites, highlights from this year's founders, and a look at what's next for the Venture Lab and the district. Most of all, it's a chance to connect with the people building Cincinnati's innovation economy. Who should come Venture Lab founders and alumni, UC faculty and researchers, mentors and EIRs, investors, corporate partners, and friends of the Cincinnati Innovation District. 📅 Wednesday, October 28th 🕔 4:00 - 6:00 PM 📍 Digital Futures Building, 3080 Exploration Ave, Cincinnati, OH 45206 🅿️ On-Site Parking Garage or Surface Lot at 1819 Innovation Hub Space is limite

Code & Cowork is a free, no-frills coworking day at Union Hall. This is a chance to get stuff done, bump into other devs, and see what cool things people are building. Maybe you’ll meet a future co-founder, maybe you’ll just get a free lunch. Either way, it’s a win. No panels. No pitches. Just a bunch of engineers, laptops, and a great space to work. Call it coworking, call it vibe coding, either way, we’ll see you there! Here’s the rundown: 👨‍💻 Free coworking at Union Hall 👀 Meet engineers actually shipping cool stuff 💡 Get a peek at what folks are building & swap ideas 🍕 Free Lunch—because devs gotta eat Event Details: Location: Union Hall, Cincinnati Parking: Mercer Garage (across the street) or street parking throughout OTR

Join the UC Venture Lab at the 1819 Innovation Hub to celebrate the founders of Accelerator Cohort 7 as they take the stage to pitch the companies they've spent the last 10 weeks building. This cohort is made up of health tech, deep tech, and hard tech startups led by University of Cincinnati faculty, researchers, alumni, and founders from across Ohio's startup ecosystem. Over the course of the in-person residency, these teams have pressure-tested their businesses through customer discovery, product roadmapping, financial modeling, prototyping in the 1819 Makerspace, IP strategy with UC's Office of Technology Commercialization, and fundraising prep. Demo Day is their chance to show what they've built, where they're headed, and what they need to get there. Whether you're an investor looking for your next Ohio deal, a corporate partner scouting new technology, a mentor who wants to plug in, or a founder thinking about applying to a future cohort, this is the room to be in. What to expect 4:00pm | Doors open, networking and refreshments 4:30pm | Welcome from Marvin Abrinica, Director of Startups 4:45pm | Cohort 7 founder pitches 5:30pm | Networking reception with founders and the Venture Lab team Presenting companies Rellax — Tinnitus treatment software InstantQuote — AI driven quoting tool for Industrial Services companies and contractors to help them close more deals. NetNeural — Modular IoT sensor platform — a single low-power hardware base that accepts snap-on sensor modules (temperature, humidity, light, presence, and more) — paired with an AI-driven cloud platform (Sentinel) that aggregates readings for predictive anomaly detection, real-time monitoring, and compliance reporting. KineticArc — AI to autonomously program manufacturing robots directly from CAD drawings, eliminating the need for specialized robot programmers. Their on-premise Kinetic Reasoning Engine™ reduces robot re-tasking from weeks to hours, running on hardware manufacturers already own. Privacl