Imperial College London and Central Working provide £250k to six ‘world-saving’ startups
Imperial College ThinkSpace and workspace provider Central Working have awarded a combined £250k to six technology companies as part of the inaugural Scalable Business Awards (SBAs). The startups will receive a year of free White City office space alongside the guidance, business connections and support that comes with Central Working membership. With the capital’s office […]
University of Utah Doctor, Students Raise $975,000 for Intubation Technology
While treating people in Africa, University of Utah anesthesiologist Sean Runnels invented a suite of intubation tools for placing breathing tubes during medical procedures. Now, he is moving rapidly toward selling the products. With help from students at the U’s Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute and the Center for Technology & Venture Commercialization (TVC), he refined his […]
Accelerating Berkeley startups at SkyDeck | TechCrunch
True to its name, SkyDeck has one of the best views in all of Berkeley. You can UC Berkeley on one side and a wide swath of the bay on the other, with San Francisco just barely peeking through the fog. If nothing else, the accelerator’s killer piece of real estate feels like a physical manifestation of […]
POC Work on Blood-Cleaning NanoRobots Conjurs Memories of Body Wars
An unprecedented breakthrough has been made in the area of biotechnology. This doesn’t come as a surprise, as we have been experiencing rapid development in the application of technology to biological processes in the recent years. A research team led by two professors (Joseph Wang and Liangfang Zhang) from the Department of NanoEngineering at the UC San […]
Alumni desiring specific avenues for donation; university gap funds and accelerators a good option (from WSJ)
Observation: Timely Wall Street Journal article on the trend of alumni donors to more specific investments. I would suggest that one for the more effective routes is getting these alumni behind future research, education, and innovation, through university gap funding and accelerator programs. In a soon to be released update to the Mind the Gap […]