FAU Tech Runway unveils its next Venture Program cohort
An AI college assistance platform. A startup that connects young people with trade companies looking for workers. As a cross between LinkedIn and crowdfunding, an app that allows college students and college-bound students to collect donations and more. These are a few of the 13 companies recently accepted in the FAU Tech Runway’s 13th cohort of its […]
Princeton IP Accelerator funding awarded to support promising new technologies
Each grant, of up to $100,000, is designed to help promising discoveries advance to the point where they can make a meaningful societal impact. “Through these grants, Princeton University helps ensure that these discoveries can become the basis of tomorrow’s life-changing technologies and services,” said John Ritter, executive director of Princeton’s Office of Technology Licensing. […]
P&G and UC bridge gap between industry, academia | University of Cincinnati
The Procter & Gamble (P&G) Digital Accelerator (formerly the UC Simulation Center) is an example of closing the gap between what industry practitioners need and what academic experts provide. The P&G Digital Accelerator, located within the University of Cincinnati’s 1819 Innovation Hub, emerges as a nexus of partnership, where the intellectual talent of students and faculty intersects with […]
University of Waterloo Startups to Pitch Live for Velocity Funding
Ten University of Waterloo startup companies will pitch their businesses for a share of $100,000 in grant funding at the Velocity Fund Finals on Thursday, July 24. The rewards include four $25,000 prizes as well as workspace at Velocity. The contenders come from diverse backgrounds spanning biotechnology, computer science, engineering, and nanotechnology. The companies are tackling current […]
Pitch Competition Celebrates and Funds New CU Boulder Ventures Founded by Women
The New Venture Challenge (NVC) and Deming Center for Entrepreneurship teamed up to present the NVC Women Founders competition, awarding $10,000 to groundbreaking new ventures. At the NVC Women Founders Competition, new ventures from CU Boulder students, faculty and staff that were founded by women presented on a range of ideas, from how restaurants can handle food waste in food […]
New UNM Research Grant to Support Collaborative Research Between UNM Main Campus and Health Sciences
UNM Rainforest Innovations is launching a pilot program called the UNM Health Sciences & Main Campus Research Collaboration Seed Grant to further support research collaboration efforts at UNM. The grant is intended to encourage investigators from the University of New Mexico Main Campus and Health Sciences to work together on advancing research that may lead […]
Ann Arbor SPARK invests $150,000 in innovative medical start up
Ann Arbor SPARK has announced a $150,000 investment in M3D as part of the company’s pre-seed funding round. M3D is an innovative startup in the medical device industry founded in Ann Arbor that develops technology that provides real-time detection and 3D imaging of radiation. Its proprietary 3D CZT technology is poised to redefine medical imaging […]
Cornell University’s Center for Technology Licensing Program Continues Funding Early-Stage Lab Innovations
Cornell’s Center for Technology Licensing (CTL) has announced the Ignite Innovation Acceleration grant recipients for the Fall 2023 application cycle. The eight projects range from advanced healthcare solutions and sustainable engineering to agriculture products and digital hiring solutions. Recipients were selected based on their potential to reach a critical inflection point towards commercialization and to […]
Yale Roberts Innovation Fund to Support Inventions in AI, Quantum, Water
New methods to purify our water, advance quantum computing, democratize artificial intelligence, and deliver life-saving drugs are just some of the projects funded by the 2024 Roberts Innovation Fund Awards, providing $1 million in accelerator funding to support 10 new inventions led by faculty from Yale’s School of Engineering & Applied Science. The Roberts Innovation […]
Vanderbilt celebrates Generative AI Seed Grant awardees | Vanderbilt University
As part of the Future of Learning and Generative AI Initiative launched last summer by the Office of the Chancellor, the Office of the Provost and the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Innovation, Vanderbilt recently announced the recipients of its Generative AI Seed Grants. The grant fund was designed to foster groundbreaking work in […]