Pittsburgh Inno – Pittsburgh tech startups collectively raise $103.8 million during second quarter
During the second quarter of 2022, 19 Pittsburgh tech companies raised a combined $103.8 million from venture capitalists, economic development entities, corporate investors and high-net-worth individuals. It handily topped the second-quarter dollars in 2021 and 2020, but was also the lowest three-month tally in a year, according to data from the PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor. The […]
Ex-Google chief’s venture aims to save neglected science software
See whether this sounds familiar: you build a piece of software to solve a research question. But when you move on to the next project, there’s no one to maintain it. As it ages, it becomes obsolete, and the next academic to tackle a similar problem finds themselves having to reinvent the wheel. That’s what […]
Emory University student venture fund is raising a new generation of investors | TechCrunch
Last year, a small group of Emory University graduate students at Goizueta Business School in Georgia began to examine the challenge of getting Black and other historically underrepresented founders access to capital. One way to do that, they reckoned, was to raise a generation of investors who would pay more attention to these groups. The idea […]
Bridging the gap between student to full-time entrepreneur | University of Waterloo
Beyond Velocity’s well-known incubator in Kitchener’s innovation district, Velocity supports more than 5,000 students per year through on-campus programs, such as Zero, Problem Lab and Cornerstone, designed to give University of Waterloo students an early start in entrepreneurship and create experiences to build key skills for any career path. Introduced during the pandemic, the Cornerstone program helps the most advanced […]
Spinning out science startups: UW’s Institute for Protein Design brings research beyond ivory tower
The Institute for Protein Design is an innovation factory. Since launching a decade ago, the University of Washington institution has grown to about 200 researchers and spun out eight startups wielding protein-design software to forge new drugs, vaccines, and enzymes. IPD spinouts have collectively raised more than $1 billion and helped fuel a biotech boom in Seattle, […]
Global Venture Funding Dipped $10 Billion in February/17% lower in Early Stage
Global venture capital funding showed signs of a slowdown in February, with startup investors pouring $10 billion less into companies than they did in January, according to Crunchbase data. VC investors globally cut $52 billion in checks last month, down 16% from $62 billion in January, per Crunchbase. While the $52 billion figure still represents a […]
Mayo Clinic launches AI startup program to help early-stage companies get market-ready | Fierce Healthcare
Mayo Clinic launched its artificial intelligence startup program this week with four early-stage health tech companies. The 20-week program, called Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate, aims to help AI-based startups get market-ready by offering access to Mayo Clinic experts in regulatory, clinical, technology and business domains with a focus on AI model validation and clinical readiness. The program also […]