Six student startups earn $50,000 President’s Buckeye Accelerator grants

Six startup business ventures created by The Ohio State University undergraduate students have each received $50,000 through the second annual President’s Buckeye Accelerator. The goal of the President’s Buckeye Accelerator is to help students who found startups to test their ideas in the marketplace while pursuing a degree, said Cheryl Turnbull, senior director of Ohio State’s Keenan […]

Mount Sinai Spinoff Startup LinusBio Raises $16 Million in Series A funding 

LinusBio, a 2021 spinoff company from Mount Sinai, announced it raised over $16 million in Series A venture capital funding to deliver a novel platform that bridges genomics, the environment, and biological response. The company’s platform is based on new methods and technology developed by scientists at the Institute for Exposomic Research at Mount Sinai. […]

Harvard Business School announces New Venture Competition finalists – Harvard Gazette

On March 4, Harvard Business School student-led teams pitched their startups to 88 judges in the first round of the HBS 2023 New Venture Competition (NVC) Business Track, managed by the School’s Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. Sixteen semifinalist teams were selected to move on to the next round, and from that group, eight finalists were invited to pitch at […]