About
Lou Bucelli
Lou Bucelli is Managing Partner of Bucelli & Company LLC, a technology commercialization and venture development firm that works with start-ups, researchers, and university intellectual property owners to maximize the commercial potential of their ideas and technologies.
A serial entrepreneur with more than thirty-five years of experience, Bucelli has developed, managed, and invested in numerous high-growth businesses. He serves as investor and CEO of LimeBox Networks, a cloud VoIP telephony software company spun out of a U.S. Army technology incubator. He is an advisor to Cerebrum.io, an open-source Internet of Things (IoT) framework that creates a neural network of distributed machines enabling developers to access other machines natively. He is also an investor and Managing Partner of MYSKINBUDDY LLC, a skincare device manufacturer.
Bucelli serves as Entrepreneur-in-Residence and consultant to Temple University's Blackstone LaunchPad, funded by the Blackstone Foundation. The program introduces entrepreneurship as a viable career path and supports venture creation through individualized coaching. He also advises Temple Ventures, a $1 million start-up fund initiative between Temple University and Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania, designed to advance Temple-created technologies.
In collaboration with Temple and Rowan Universities, Bucelli works alongside NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration on innovative commercialization solutions for unmanned traffic management (UTM) and unmanned aerial systems (UAS).
He has lectured on entrepreneurship and start-ups at Colorado State University, Rowan University, Drexel University, and Swinburne University of Technology. He is a frequent speaker on the technology and venture financing circuit throughout Philadelphia and New Jersey and serves as a mentor in the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps.
Previously, Bucelli served as Entrepreneur-in-Residence and consultant to the University City Science Center and to Drexel University’s ACIN Technology Center in Camden, New Jersey—a $100 million research lab and incubator supporting U.S. Army research and more than 60 high-growth start-ups.
Earlier in his career, Bucelli was CEO and co-founder of CMECourses.com, a dot-com e-commerce platform for continuing medical education programs, which was acquired in 2000 by HealthStream, a publicly traded e-learning company. He also served as principal of Library Automation Technology and publisher of Private Practice Publications.
He was President and CEO of CME Information Services, a venture-backed company he co-founded in 1989. The company became a high-growth distance medical education media organization, partnering with leading institutions including the Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, UCLA, and Memorial Sloan Kettering, among 77 major medical centers nationwide.
Bucelli has received numerous awards, including ranking on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing private companies in America and the Philly Top 100 for three consecutive years. He was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for emerging business and received the Circle of Distinction Award from Drexel University.
Early in his career, Bucelli worked for a healthcare development company and the New Jersey Department of Energy, where he helped administer a $200 million energy grant program.
He holds an MS in Finance from Drexel University and has attended the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and Temple University.
Bucelli serves on the boards of United Way of Camden County; the National Aerospace Training and Research Center (NASTAR) Foundation, which supports innovative aerospace exploration and STEM education; and The Aquaponics Project, a nonprofit dedicated to sustainable urban agricultural practices in underserved communities.