# Startup Launchpad

Program · [Tulsa and Oklahoma ecosystem](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tulsa)

Also called: OU Startup Launchpad, Startup OU Launchpad, Start up Launchpad, OU Idea Accelerator, Founder in Residence OU, Startup OU Idea Lab

The [University of Oklahoma](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tom-love-innovation-hub)'s set of [venture](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/venture-capital) creation and launch programs, run by Startup OU at the Tom Love Innovation Hub in Norman. They include a four-week Idea [Accelerator](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/accelerator) for validating ideas and a semester-long [Founder](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/founder) in Residence program that ends with a startup [showcase](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/demo-day). Discussed in the [Techlahoma Slack](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/techlahoma-slack) as sharing Startup Launchpad applications and an online information [session](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/session) in 2024.

**For example:** An OU graduate student with a research idea joins the Idea [Accelerator](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/accelerator) to test whether customers will pay for it.

## Applying



Application status unknown

[Official application page](https://www.ou.edu/innovationhub/startups)

Checked 2026-11-15.
Official site: <https://www.ou.edu/innovationhub/startups>

## Connects to (5)

- [Tom Love Innovation Hub](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/tom-love-innovation-hub): The University of Oklahoma's innovation center in Norman.
- [Accelerator](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/accelerator): A program with a fixed length that helps a group of early companies grow faster through coaching, introductions and sometimes funding.
- [Cohort](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/cohort): A group of founders or companies that go through a program together, on the same schedule.
- [Customer discovery](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/customer-discovery): Talking with possible customers to learn about their problems before you build, so that you build something they need.
- [Hacklahoma](https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/hacklahoma): The student-run hackathon at the University of Oklahoma in Norman.

## Sources

- <https://www.ou.edu/innovationhub/startups>
- <https://www.ou.edu/insideou/articles/2024/january/applications-open-for-ou-startup-launchpad>


Map view: https://ecosystem.samcarlton.com/startup-ou-launchpad