Ryerson University Healthcare Photo Sharing Spinout, Figure1, Raises $2M
Digital Media Zone at Ryerson University (DMZ) alumnus company Figure1 announced today that it has raised $2 million in seed funding. Figure 1, the startup behind the popular healthcare photo sharing app of the same name, incubated at the DMZ from December 2012 to August 2013 and also completed the Ryerson Futures accelerator program.
Duke University Energy Seed Fund Calls For Proposals, $40K Per Award
The Energy Research Seed Fund provide funds for new interdisciplinary, collaborative research teams (working groups) with the larger goal of enabling Duke University investigators to obtain critical preliminary results that have a high likelihood of obtaining external funding.
Florida State University GAP Fund Announces New Grants, $8M Funded-to-Date
Florida State University is giving some of its leading researchers a little extra cash to propel their cutting edge work closer to the marketplace. Pradeep Bhide, Dr. James Olcese and Jinfeng Zhang all received the university’s Grant Assistance Program (GAP) award, financial support to help bridge the gap between a faculty member’s research and the […]
University City Science Center Houses Two New Startups
Two biotech startups have a new home at the University City Science Center. The companies, Targeted Therapeutic Solutions (TTS) and Innolign Biomedical, are coming in from UPstart, a startup incubator through the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Technology Transfer.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Grants POC $$ To Potential Breakthroughs
This program helps bridge the gap between University innovations and the marketplace by funding research and development that will demonstrate an innovation’s market viability to potential investors and partners.