Elevating future generations of student entrepreneurs
The next step—the ability to launch student-created concepts in the marketplace—has received a significant boost with a $5 million pledge from University alumnus Angel Alvarez, founder and chairman of ABB OPTICAL, and his family to establish the University Student Startup Accelerator or USTAAR. The USTAAR program is open to any student or student team from […]
Vanderbilt University Innovation Catalyst Fund announces eight inaugural awardees
The first awardees for Vanderbilt’s highly competitive Innovation Catalyst Fund, an internal funding program to help streamline faculty research into real-world applications, include faculty from Peabody College, College of Arts and Science, the Vanderbilt School of Engineering and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. The Vanderbilt Innovation Catalyst Fund, an initiative introduced last year with sponsorship from Chancellor Daniel […]
Washington University’s technology, innovation hub celebrates 100th faculty startup
The first-floor walls at 4240 Duncan Ave. – home to Washington University in St. Louis’ Office of Technology Management (OTM) – are running out of room. And that’s a good thing. The logos of Washington University startup companies launched to shepherd promising university-owned diagnostics, therapeutics or other technologies to the marketplace are prominently displayed on the walls. […]
Poland’s best engineering school has a new VC to back deeptech startups
Visiting Warsaw University of Technology Investment Factory’s (WUT IF) office has the feel of attending a professor’s office hours rather than a business meeting: the VC is headquartered in a room in a long corridor of one of WUT’s buildings (on the aptly named Dean’s Street). But it’s here where, the investors hope, academic research […]