University of Arizona Startups Draw Silicon Valley Attention to Tucson
On May 3, four startups founded on inventions based on University of Arizona research made their pitches at an accelerator in one of the nation’s epicenters for technology and entrepreneurship: Silicon Valley. The audience consisted not only of a live crowd at the TechCode offices; the pitches were live-streamed to TechCode network locations around the […]
University Of Sydney startup Abyss raises $1m to take underwater data service global
A provider of underwater robotics out of University of Sydney, which claims it could have prevented California’s recent Oroville dam crisis, has raised $1 million for global expansion. Abyss Solutions, whose 18-member team comes mostly from Sydney Uni’s Australian Centre for Field Robotics, claims to have built high-resolution sensors paired with fault detection algorithms that, when attached to aquatic drones, […]
India Govt aims at job creation through venture capital funding of MSME
The state government has prepared a strategy to give fresh impetus to the small and medium scale industrial sector which is credited to play an important role in providing job opportunities and remove regional imbalances. The department of small-scale industries and export promotion is in the process of creating a dedicated venture capital fund to […]
Company with University of Kansas roots goes public on NASDAQ
Cory Berkland might not be the first person you’d guess would help to create what has become a multimillion-dollar company. The distinguished professor, appointed in the departments of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Chemical & Petroleum Engineering at the University of Kansas, grew up on a pig farm in Iowa, studied chemical engineering at the undergraduate and […]