Eshelman Innovation, the innovation engine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is working on groundbreaking healthcare therapeutics and bringing digital health ideas to reality, including new technologies to address the opioid crisis.

With High Alpha Innovation, Eshelman created Goldie Health, which equips community health workers with a purpose-built, interoperable platform that connects disparate systems and stakeholders to better facilitate post-overdose treatment and services.

Purdue University is a global leader in innovation that commercializes intellectual property to create new agriculture-focused companies. However, the university recognized it needed a way to scale startup creation to unlock growth and transformation.

The creation of DIAL Ventures, a Purdue-run venture studio, has enabled the university to build four companies with High Alpha Innovation that help farmers streamline operations, address labor shortages, and implement more sustainable farming practices.

Koch Industries has a diverse portfolio of businesses that span multiple industries. With a strong desire to continually innovate, Koch wanted to address two key challenges facing some of its companies: supply chain logistics and construction jobsite inefficiency.

Venture-build programs executed with High Alpha Innovation helped Koch create Amplio, an asset recovery solution to help diagnose supply chain issues and reduce inventory, and PLOT,  a construction material procurement platform to streamline ordering and delivery.

CMS Energy Corporation wanted to derive energy entirely from biomass and use carbon-capture and -sequestration technology to clean the air and create carbon credits. To do so, it needed sufficient biomass feedstock supply, a common issue facing energy utility providers.

CMS partnered with High Alpha Innovation to explore solutions. The result of our venture-building initiative was Chuck, an AI-driven wood waste management platform that enables construction crews to divert leftover wood from work sites to power plants.

Elanco Animal Health wanted to help livestock value chain partners reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. The organization ultimately saw startup creation as a way to address problems they couldn't solve internally through its existing R&D and innovation engines.

Through a venture building program with High Alpha Innovation, we explored hundreds of ideas tied to the sustainability theme and designed and launched a venture-backable company in Athian, the world's first carbon marketplace for the livestock industry.

OSF HealthCare, a not-for-profit medical group that operates a dozen-plus hospital systems and facilities in Illinois and Michigan, wanted to address community healthcare challenges tied to the patient and provider experience in the communities it serves.

Partnering with High Alpha Innovation enabled OSF to launch Marti Health, a care-management solution for those with sickle cell in underserved communities, and Alpine Health, a patient-transition platform to help case workers reduce extended hospital stays.