Nexus Louisiana

Nexus Louisiana Nexus Louisiana connects early-stage founders with the mentors, capital and resources to build real technology.

If you're building something in Louisiana, this is where it gets real.

06/01/2026

Founders are rethinking how they build, spend and hire in an AI-first world.
 
In this conversation, Nexus Louisiana CEO sits down with two Baton Rouge founders and Nexus members, Craig Gehring, founder and CEO of and Kellen Francis founder and CEO of CodeGig, to talk about how AI is changing fundraising, why culture still wins and what it looks like to build serious companies in Louisiana.

05/12/2026

The Apple iPhone SOS network you’d use if you got lost in the woods? Managed out of Covington.

The bats hitting home runs in the MLB? Made in Baton Rouge.

Biofuel pellets powering parts of Europe? Made from sugarcane waste in Jeanerette.

Louisiana builds serious technology. The story doesn’t get told often enough.

In the latest installment of our downtown series, Nexus Louisiana president & CEO sat down with Josh Fleig, chief innovation officer at , inside . They talked about the companies built here, the case for treating entrepreneurship as economic development, and what the next 10 years should look like.

Walls are going up and floors are coming out and our future home in downtown Baton Rouge is officially taking shape.This...
05/07/2026

Walls are going up and floors are coming out and our future home in downtown Baton Rouge is officially taking shape.

This summer, Nexus Louisiana will relocate to a new campus at 440 on Third Street, placing builders at the center of Louisiana’s growing tech economy. From these studs and concrete, we are building space for founders to collaborate, launch products and turn real problems into powerful solutions.

Follow along as we share more behind the scenes progress.

2 weeks left to apply for DevDays. This challenge, you’ll build a tool that helps education leaders across the state mak...
05/05/2026

2 weeks left to apply for DevDays.
 
This challenge, you’ll build a tool that helps education leaders across the state make smarter decisions about where schools are needed, where demand is growing, and where workforce gaps exist.
 
The data is public. The problem is real. The total cash prize is $10,000.
 
Form your team and apply now. nexusla.org/devdays

04/27/2026

As Nexus Louisiana prepares to move to downtown Baton Rouge, we’re bringing you along for the journey.

We’ve launched a web series hosted by our President and CEO, , featuring the partners and leaders shaping Louisiana’s innovation economy.

Joining us for the first episode is Whitney Hoffman Sayal, AICP, Executive Director of the , to discuss why downtown, why now, and why this move matters.

Follow along as we take you inside the conversations, the momentum, and what’s next for Louisiana.

04/23/2026

Next stop on the college campus tour: in Lake Charles.

We met with engineering students to talk about DevDays EdTech Challenge and how Nexus Louisiana turns our state’s most pressing problems into working technology and real solutions.

The tour keeps going. More campuses. More builders. More solutions built right here in Louisiana.

Build Your Ideas Here.

04/21/2026

Louisiana’s education data is public. All of it.

Performance records. Workforce projections. School capacity. Financial data. It’s sitting in state databases right now, ready to drive real decisions for students across the state.

Nexus Louisiana President & CEO sat down with CEO Kara Maggiore to break down what that looks like in practice and what the right tool could make possible. Watch before you build.

Apply by May 17.
Link in bio.

$10,000. One challenge. Building Decision-Ready Tools. This cycle, we’re partnering with on an EdTech challenge. The pr...
04/16/2026

$10,000. One challenge. Building Decision-Ready Tools.
 
This cycle, we’re partnering with on an EdTech challenge.

The problem: education decision-makers across the state lack a unified view of where access gaps exist, where demand is growing, and where school pathways align with workforce needs. The data exists. It’s fragmented.
 
Your job is to build the tool that connects it.
 
Open to engineering, computer science and business students at four-year Louisiana universities.
 
Applications close May 17.
Visit the link in bio to apply.

04/08/2026

Louisiana’s environmental challenges need working technology. 10 student teams tackled a real problem for and Team BirdSense AI built the best solution, taking first place at DevDays.

Their ML platform classifies bird species from aerial imagery at scale, turning a research backlog into actionable conservation data.

The next DevDays challenge drops soon. Stay ready.

3rd place. Congratulations to Delta from x  Louisiana loses a football field of wetlands every 100 minutes. Over 400,0...
03/26/2026

3rd place. Congratulations to Delta from x
 
Louisiana loses a football field of wetlands every 100 minutes. Over 400,000 aerial images documenting that loss sit largely unanalyzed.
 
Delta built a platform that connects students, scientists, and policymakers in one workflow. Students label aerial images. Machine learning processes the rest. ChronoMap tracks 14 years of coastal change. And when a site needs intervention, Co-Pilot generates a CPRA-ready restoration proposal in minutes.
 
From raw data to conservation action.
 
DevDays: Digital Habitat Monitoring. In partnership with

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7117 Florida Boulevard
Baton Rouge, LA
70806

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Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 4pm

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