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AccelerateKY

Connect. Inform. Inspire.

Unleashing the Potential of Kentucky’s Innovators and Entrepreneurs

AccelerateKY

Connect. Inform. Inspire.

Unleashing the Potential of Kentucky’s Innovators and Entrepreneurs

We are a Kentucky nonprofit leading several of the commonwealth’s major Civic Imagination and Future of Work initiatives. From entrepreneurs and venture capitalists to educators and government officials, AccelerateKY is focused on fostering innovation via community-wide collaboration.

Our mission is to engage people to dream what’s possible for the Bluegrass State by:

  • Connecting Kentuckians to one another and to needed resources
  • Informing Kentuckians about opportunities, risks, and research
  • Inspiring Kentuckians with visions for the state’s future

What We Do

Each year, AccelerateKY takes an active role in developing, organizing, implementing, and supporting several programs. Each of our endeavors in some way bolsters Kentucky’s innovation ecosystem, bringing awareness to and pushing the limits of what’s possible.

For example, in collaboration with the University of Southern California’s Civic Imagination Project, AccelerateKY has created the Civic Imagination Incubator. This 8-month program centers on storytelling and worldbuilding, mentoring each year’s cohort through the process of realizing–from ideation to implementation and funding–its members’ creative projects. Another project that saw AccelerateKY’s support is The Metals Innovation Initiative (MI2), a now million-dollar statewide nonprofit sparked by an AccelerateKY whitepaper.