Michigan no longer a flyover state for venture capital
While Michigan has become a hot spot for startup funding, Detroit has been boiling in recent years, according to a new Michigan Venture Capital Association study. The 2017 Detroit Entrepreneurial Study revealed Detroit’s startup community has grown 50 percent in the past three years, now making up a quarter of the state’s fledging companies. Last year, 14 of […]
UNM.STC tech-based startups remain at record high
The University of New Mexico’s technology transfer office reported another solid year of growth for fiscal year 2017, which ended June 30. The number of startups formed with UNM technology remains at a record high for the second year in a row, with 12 new businesses launched. Licensing agreements for companies to take UNM inventions […]
U Washington Alexa Accelerator names 9 startups for inaugural Amazon and Techstars program
The Alexa Accelerator, a new program that Amazon is running in partnership with Techstars, kicked off its first class on Monday. Nine startups from across the globe will spend the next three months in Seattle at the new Amazon Alexa Accelerator, which will support early-stage companies that are working on B2C and B2B technologies related to […]
Florida Institute Funds Aesthetic Technologies startup
The Florida Institute for the Commercialization of Public Research (the Florida Institute) announced today that it has finalized a funding agreement with Dominion Aesthetic Technologies, an innovative company focused on commercializing medical devices in the aesthetics field. The company has licensed technology from the University of Central Florida. The Florida Institute supports new company development […]
Deep tech start-ups may get $100m boost by SPRING Singapore
Up to half of the funds in the Startup SG Equity scheme could be set aside for start-ups working in the sectors of advanced manufacturing and engineering, health and biomedical sciences, and urban solutions and sustainability. That could mean around $100 million going to what are known as deep technology firms exploring opportunities in these […]
Startup Growth Program Invest Georgia Makes Third Commitment: Invests $1 Million in Early Stage Fund TechSquare Labs
Georgia-based start-up growth project, Invest Georgia, has reportedly made its third commitment and invested $1 million in early stage fund, TechSquare Labs. According to VentureBeat, Invest Georgia’s program loose to encourage seed and early-stage companies in Georgia and has previously made investments in TTV Capital and Mosley Ventures, totaling to more than $6 million invested. Knox […]
Maine Technology Institute awards $695K, leveraging nearly $1M for recipients
The Maine Technology Institute approved 31 awards totaling almost $695,000 from across its suite of funding programs, leveraging an additional $960,815 in matching funds from the organizations. The investments will support innovative projects in nearly half of Maine’s 16 counties and in six of the state’s seven targeted technology sectors. Awards from this round include […]
Utah USTAR awards grants to Utah companies and university researchers
USTAR awarded seven Technology Acceleration Program grants and seven University Technology Acceleration Grants in its latest round of funding. “This round of cutting-edge technologies has potential to translate into improved monitoring systems and methods to test and validate drug and device therapies,” said Ivy Estabrooke, Ph.D., USTAR executive director. “Awardee projects span long-range wireless telemetry […]
UC Davis innovators receive $328K in grants to advance research
UC Davis announced last week the recipients of nine proof-of-concept grants totaling $328,000 for campus innovators to advance their research and technologies toward commercialization. These grants and the associated review process are managed by UCD Venture Catalyst through the Science Translation and Innovative Research, or STAIR, grant program, which is in its fourth year, and […]
Pharmacy professor receives SUNY funding to spur research commercialization
A new technology led by UB faculty member Sathy Balu-Iyer that has the potential to treat autoimmune diseases and improve the success of gene therapy is one of four SUNY research projects that recently received investments from the SUNY Technology Accelerator Fund (TAF). Funded jointly by SUNY and the SUNY Research Foundation, TAF helps faculty […]