Venture Capital’s Dangerous Divide: The $6.6 Billion Mega Deals And Everyone Else
How Big Money Is Leaving Most Startups Behind For elite VC investors backing companies like OpenAI and SpaceX, 2024 has been an amazing year with multi-billion-dollar deals and sky-high valuations. But step outside this exclusive circle, and you’ll find a very different story—especially in Europe, where funding has dropped to less than half of what […]
Blazing New Trails to the Endless Frontiers: Transformation of America’s University Research
We are at an inflection point. For four score years or so, the research enterprise that fueled the American innovation engine was built on the Bell Labs model and the NSF model. In the latter, a social contract was implicitly agreed upon between the American people and their elected officials and the country’s top universities […]
Biotech accelerator launches in Charlottesville – Virginia Business
At the beginning of April, the Charlottesville area will enter a new phase in its journey to become a hub for biotech innovation with the launch of the Commonwealth Bio Accelerator. The program will help early-stage biotech companies from the University of Virginia and others in the surrounding region and beyond move from the research stage to market viability. The CBA […]
University Lab Partners Welcomes Groundbreaking MedTech Companies to the I-CREATE Accelerator Program
IRVINE, Calif., April 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — University Lab Partners (ULP) proudly announces the selection of nine cutting-edge MedTech companies for the inaugural cohort of the International Consortium for Research, Engineering, Acceleration of Technology Excellence (I-CREATE). I-CREATE serves as the BARDA Accelerator Network’s Medical Devices and Diagnostics Hub and is executed in partnership with CIMIT and Science Exchange. “We are […]
SPARK NS Selects Eight Projects to Receive Aggregate
MENLO PARK, Calif., April 03, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — SPARK NS today announced the eight projects and principal investigators selected for the SPARK NS Translational Research Program, 2025 Cohort. Participation in a SPARK NS program cohort lasts two years and includes milestone-based funding of up to $2,000,0001 for each project, education and training in drug development […]
$35 Million Investment to Establish Health and Advanced Technology Research and Innovation Centre
Griffith University is set to transform health and advanced technology innovation with the establishment of the Health and Advanced Technology Research and Innovation Centre (HATRIC) at the Gold Coast. Backed by a $25 million grant from the South East Queensland Innovation Economy Fund, this landmark project will also receive $10 million from Gold Coast City […]
Venture Capital’s Dangerous Divide: The $6.6 Billion Mega Deals And Everyone Else | Forbes
How Big Money Is Leaving Most Startups Behind For elite VC investors backing companies like OpenAI and SpaceX, 2024 has been an amazing year with multi-billion-dollar deals and sky-high valuations. But step outside this exclusive circle, and you’ll find a very different story—especially in Europe, where funding has dropped to less than half of what […]
UC 1819 sewer tech startup makes a $7.5 million splash | University of Cincinnati
A pioneering startup that emerged from the University of Cincinnati 1819 Innovation Hub’s Venture Lab pre-accelerator program in 2018 was acquired by global solutions provider IDEX Corporation in 2024 for $7.5 million. Subterra, founded by Robert Lee, revolutionizes sewer and pipeline infrastructure monitoring through its innovative watercraft, an AI-driven technology that aligns with IDEX’s family of business solutions. Full story: UC […]
UT invests $150K in AI startup for processing health care claims | wbir.com
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The University of Tennessee Research Foundation’s Accelerate Fund is investing $150,000 in an artificial intelligence startup for processing health care claims. The startup, VisualizAI, is focused on “revolutionizing health care claims processing.” VisualizAI was co-founded by UT Knoxville’s Tickle College of Engineering professor Jian Huang and it’s CEO Mac Bartine. According to […]
NIH Cuts: A Push for Efficiency or a Blow to US Healthcare Innovation?
President Donald Trump’s administration recently cancelled billions of dollars in funding to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), causing widespread concern among researchers and tech developers in the healthcare world. These cuts are currently paused while being challenged in court — but regardless of the litigation’s outcomes, healthcare researchers are girding for an eventual reduction […]