India C-CAMP delighted to launch SEED fund in partnership with BIRAC
C-CAMP, India’s premier life sciences technology and innovation hub launched a SEED fund in partnership with the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC). C-CAMP, India’s premier life sciences technology and innovation hub launched a SEED fund in partnership with the Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC). The Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms – C-CAMP, […]
Duke University Energy Initiative Awards Seven New Seed Grants
Research projects that explore new possibilities for energy storage, reliability, and sustainable development will receive funding in 2017 from the Duke University Energy Initiative’s Energy Research Seed Fund. Seven projects involving 14 faculty members were selected to receive a total of $240,000 from the fund. Seed funding provides a financial head start for new multi-disciplinary, […]
U-M undergrad venture fund makes first investment
Benjamin Rathi, a business and computer science senior at the University of Michigan, already had a successful startup under his belt when he won a spot on the Zell Early Stage Fund as a junior. The fund, which launched in fall 2015 with a dozen juniors at the Zell Lurie Institute housed at the Ross […]
John Hopkins baby box startup wins $25,000 through Hopkins Social Innovation Lab
A mother looking to prevent cases of sudden infant death syndrome in Maryland has won $25,000 to help fund her “baby box” startup concept. As a member of Johns Hopkins Social Innovation Lab’s 2016-2017 cohort, Shantell Roberts has been working on a venture around Portable Alternative Cribs, through her nonprofit Touching Young Lives Inc. Enlarge […]
Cisco Innovation Challenge lets university entrepreneurs rise and shine
Every year when Naomi Phillips travels to the Caribbean with her husband, they use her homemade sunscreen. And every year, her husband says, “You need to sell this stuff!” Phillips is a student in the business program at South Mountain Community College in Phoenix. She’s also an entrepreneur, although she didn’t always see herself that […]
Alibaba launches US$3m start-up competition with Cyberport and Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks
Alibaba’s not-for-profit initiative, the Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund, is teaming up with the city’s Cyberport and Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks on a US$3 million start-up competition to help nurture the city’s growing start-up scene and identify tomorrow’s entrepreneurial stars The competition, “Jumpstarter 2017”, will begin in May and is open to a variety […]
VentureCon brings out Utah Valley University’s entrepreneurs with new business ideas
At Utah Valley University’s first VentureCon on Tuesday, the variety of student businesses was impressive. VentureCon was the Entrepreneurship Institute’s first foray into a student business trade show, but it’s one Peter Robinson, Morris Professor of Entrepreneurship at UVU, plans to repeat. Business-minded students from entrepreneur classes and other disciplines at the university were able […]