How mentors help startups grow – and avoid costly mistakes
When Eric Reich was starting higher education software company Campus Labs in 2001, there weren’t a lot of ways to learn and process how to grow a startup. It made the mentors he had at the time that much more valuable. He leaned on local executives, such as Jordan Levy and Ron Schreiber, to help […]
An innovative path out of biotech’s “valley of death” – STAT
So many promising medical innovations never reach their full potential as therapies or cures, languishing instead in a metaphoric place many of us in biotech know as “the Valley of Death.” This valley represents the gap between when a scientist makes a discovery and when that work has reached the point when a pharmaceutical company […]
VIPC Awards Commonwealth Commercialization Fund Grant to UVA for New Vaccine Platform for Infectious Diseases
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES, August 8, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — The Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (VIPC) today announced that the University of Virginia (UVA) has been awarded a Commonwealth Commercialization Fund (CCF) grant for $75,000 in support of a commercialization project being conducted by Dr. Steven Zeichner. VIPC’s CCF programs have distributed more than $51 million to Virginia-based startups, entrepreneurs and […]
Kyoto University’s VC fund to invest $140m in AI and biotech – Nikkei Asia
Kyoto University-affiliated venture capital firm Miyako Capital has established a fund expected to raise roughly 20 billion yen ($141 million) to back startups involved in deep-tech biology and artificial intelligence. The fund will be one of the biggest vehicles of its kind in Japan, injecting between 500 million yen and 1 billion yen into each startup. Half the funds will go […]