Case Studies

SCRA and SC Launch help entrepreneurs grow the Innovation Economy in South Carolina. Our team mentors innovative companies and fills the funding gap through loans and grant matching.

SCRA also builds and manages Innovation Centers - labs, offices and manufacturing facilities where research is conducted and new technologies are commercialized.

Featured Case Study

Heatworks

Client Company based in Mt. Pleasant, SC

Their Story

Featured Case Study

Your Configurator

Client Company based in Rock Hill, SC

Their Story

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KIYATEC

Graduate Company based in Greenville, SC

Their Story

ENTREPRENEURIAL COMPANY GROWTH

South Carolina-based entrepreneurial start-up companies turn to SC Launch for guidance in the development of their business plans and access to a network of business services providers.

Jerrry Callahan, Founder and CEO

Heatworks

Heatworks is reinventing the way the world heats and uses water with theirpatented Ohmic Array Technology,

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Lanford Holloway, Founder and CEO

TerraStride, Inc.

TerraStride has two product lines that use their proprietary mapping technology to help people enjoy, manage and market land.

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David Stringer, President

Your Configurator

Your Configurator enables anyone to build scalable, custom configurators with a "drag and drop" visualization platform.

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Damien Stevens, CEO

Servosity

An investment from SC Launch helped us expand operations and create several new jobs.

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Chris Brunson, Founder

PEC360

"I had people at SC Launch who listened to my story and they believed in it."

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Craig Wilson, Founder and CEO

VidiStar

SC Launch support was instrumental in my decision to form my company in South Carolina.

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Grant Matches

The federal government issues SBIR/STTR grants to help small and emerging companies bring innovative technologies to market. SC Launch matches these grants to SC-based companies.

Gautam Ghatnekar, Founder and CEO

FirstString Research, Inc.

FirstString received an SBIR matching grant, which greatly accelerated clinical trials of our lead product, Granexin® gel.

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COMMERCIALIZING ACADEMIC RESEARCH

SC Launch supports the formation of companies based on intellectual property derived from research at academic institutions.

Matt Gevaert, CEO

KIYATEC, Inc.

SC Launch helped me form a company based on university research.

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Julian Reed, CEO

ActiveEd

ActivEd is an educational software company aimed at giving teachers interactive lessons.

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FACILITIES

SCRA builds and manages offices, labs and manufacturing facilities where research generates useful technologies and entrepreneurs form companies.

645 Meeting Street Charleston, SC

MUSC Innovation Center

This Innovation Center has Bio Safety Level II Laboratories to support medical and bioscience research and commercialization.

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Dr. Apparao Rao, Director

Clemson Nanomaterials Center

We needed a facility to conduct federally-funded nanotech research. SCRA quickly delivered a specialized lab.

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