Health system intelligence profile
University of Nebraska Medical Center / University of Nebraska at Omaha
Last reviewed August 30, 2026
Intelligence summary
UNeTech is a university-supported startup incubator in Omaha that builds companies around inventions coming out of UNMC and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. It pairs university technologies, most of which come from the UNMC intellectual property portfolio managed by UNeMed, with community entrepreneurs and operators who can take them to a first customer or a first financing. UNeTech acts as an early investor, taking sweat equity alongside the innovation and connecting founders to local and national investors. It serves faculty inventors, student founders and outside entrepreneurs looking for a technology to build on, and it houses portfolio companies in its Omaha facility.
Documented successes: Portfolio companies built from university inventions include Adeptus Interactive, IMPOWER, Isocapt, MicroWash, Precision Syringe and UNePlan
Mandate and remit
UNeTech is a university-supported startup incubator in Omaha that builds companies around inventions coming out of UNMC and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. It pairs university technologies, most of which come from the UNMC intellectual property portfolio managed by UNeMed, with community entrepreneurs and operators who can take them to a first customer or a first financing. UNeTech acts as an early investor, taking sweat equity alongside the innovation and connecting founders to local and national investors. It serves faculty inventors, student founders and outside entrepreneurs looking for a technology to build on, and it houses portfolio companies in its Omaha facility.
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Fund or office: UNeTech Institute
UNeTech is a university-supported startup incubator in Omaha that builds companies around inventions coming out of UNMC and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. It pairs university technologies, most of which come from the UNMC intellectual property portfolio managed by UNeMed, with community entrepreneurs and operators who can take them to a first customer or a first financing. UNeTech acts as an early investor, taking sweat equity alongside the innovation and connecting founders to local and national investors. It serves faculty inventors, student founders and outside entrepreneurs looking for a technology to build on, and it houses portfolio companies in its Omaha facility.
Documented successes
Portfolio companies built from university inventions include Adeptus Interactive, IMPOWER, Isocapt, MicroWash, Precision Syringe and UNePlan
Organizational home: UNeTech Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center / University of Nebraska at Omaha
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