From the classroom to the marketplace: Arizona’s public universities fuel the next wave of startups
On stage at Arizona State University’s SkySong campus, student entrepreneurs presented their market-ready business ventures, showcasing how Arizona’s public universities are helping students turn innovation into enterprise. Some pitched new approaches to improving health care delivery, and others shared their ideas to improve sustainability or new ways to use artificial intelligence to streamline everyday processes. […]
$10 Million Fund Launched at Singapore Management University For Urban Solutions And Sustainability Startups
Singapore Management University (SMU) announced the launch of the Urban SustaInnovator (USI) Fund, a US$10 million investment program created to support startups focused on urban solutions and sustainability across Singapore and Asia. The fund is designed to back ventures emerging from SMU’s flagship Urban SustaInnovator accelerator program, which began incubating its inaugural cohort in February […]
UTokyo IPC Selects Five Projects for “Launch1000,” a Commercialization Program for Researchers’ Technology Seeding
UTokyo Innovation Platform Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo; President & CEO: Kosuke Ueda; hereinafter “UTokyo IPC”) is pleased to announce that it has selected five projects for “Launch1000,” a commercialization program for researchers’ technology seeds conducted as part of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT)’s “Next-Generation Open Innovation Model Development Project.” […]
Ohio State engineering students demonstrate innovation at inaugural Design Showcase
Graduating seniors and first-year students at The Ohio State University put their knowledge into practice during the inaugural Buckeye Engineering Design Showcase. The College of Engineering recently hosted the event at Ohio Stadium and the Recreation and Physical Activity Center on the Columbus campus. More than 800 first-year students presented their year-long research and development […]
LAUNCH event highlights UND’s growing culture of innovation
Innovation took center stage at the second annual LAUNCH showcase, where 10 student and early-stage founders presented ventures developed through UND Center for Innovation programs, including the Runway Accelerator and the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps or I-Corps. The showcase on the Memorial Union’s Social Stair showed how participants transformed early ideas into real-world, high-impact ventures. The […]
Why Investment and Engagement Moving Later Changes Everything for Universities
Historically, much of the university commercialization ecosystem operated with the assumption that once a technology showed early promise, downstream investors and partners would increasingly step in to help carry it forward. That environment has changed. Across venture capital, corporate innovation, angel investing, and other downstream engagement models, participation has shifted later, become more selective, and […]
University Impact is using Donor Advised Funds (DAF) to Scale Impact Investing
University Impact (UI) is a nonprofit that invests in companies and nonprofits solving social and environmental problems. Investments are focused on funding the most promising social ventures. UI’s goal is to create the next generation of social impact leaders and provide capital to social ventures solving social and environmental problems. UI does this by providing […]
SLC Altitude Lab Portfolio Tops $205 Million in Funding as Salt Lake City’s Biotech Scene Gains Real Traction
Altitude Lab, the Salt Lake City biotech accelerator founded by Recursion, says its portfolio companies have now raised more than $205 million in early-stage funding since the program launched in 2020, a milestone that signals growing momentum for Utah’s life sciences ecosystem. The announcement comes at a time when biotech fundraising remains selective and many early-stage startups […]
GAP Insights: Industry-Embedded Research / Canada Expanding Commercialization Through Graduate Talent
A new federal initiative in Canada highlights an increasingly important dimension of translational research: commercialization capacity is not only about capital or IP, but also about how research talent is integrated into industry environments early in the innovation lifecycle. Talent Innovation Canada recently received $29.2 million in federal funding to embed PhD students and postdoctoral […]
Lansdowne Partners launches UK VC fund to scale innovation
Lansdowne Partners has launched a venture capital fund focused on backing high potential UK companies emerging from the country’s world class university research base and start up ecosystem. The fund announces a first close of $150 million and will hold a second and final close in December, with indicated interest in excess of the fund […]