September 2, 2025 – Aiming to turn groundbreaking faculty discoveries into companies and jobs in New Orleans, Tulane University has launched Founder Lab, a new accelerator that moves research into market-ready startups through intensive six-month cycles, a model adopted by fewer than 10 U.S. universities.
Backed by the Tulane University Innovation Institute, which has already launched 11 successful faculty spinouts, Founder Lab takes on one of the toughest hurdles in academic commercialization: researchers may be world-class scientists, but they’re not always entrepreneurs.