Two new N. Ireland equity funds have £95m for investments into innovative SMEs, universities
TWO new follow-on equity funds are making £95 million available to give potential high-growth start-up businesses in Northern Ireland an early-stage cash injection. A second round of the TechStart seed fund and the fourth Crescent Capital development fund are part of Invest NI’s ‘Access to Finance’ portfolio, which provides loan and equity funding to innovative […]
Yeshiva University’s Innovation Lab Launches 2nd Cohort With 11 Israeli Startups
Yeshiva University, the private, modern Orthodox research university based in New York City, launched the second cohort of its Innovation Lab last week, in partnership with Gvahim, the Israeli NGO that helps new immigrants to Israel with business and career goals, Cactus Capital, the first student-run university venture capital firm in Israel, and Yazamut 360°, […]
NC Biotech Center awards $1.4M in grants, loans; portfolio startups raise $16.5M
The North Carolina Biotechnology Center awarded 18 grants and loans totaling nearly $1.4 million to bioscience companies, universities and non-profit organizations in the first quarter of its 2019-20 fiscal year. The awards, made from July 1 to Sept. 30, will support life science research and technology commercialization throughout North Carolina and help companies attract follow-on funding from […]
Biomedical startups seek funding at Lundquist Institute’s 6th annual Innovation Showcase
A gene therapy that relieves pain; a device to diagnose ear infections in children; a virtual reality microscope that allows doctors to see 95% more of a cancer cell. These are just some of the state-of-the-art medical advances, currently under development, that were featured by 24 startup companies this week at the sixth annual Innovation Showcase, […]