UBC seed-funded company develops 3-D printing of human tissue
You may have heard of printing on demand. A Vancouver startup, Aspect Biosystems, is putting a sci-fi twist on that, printing human tissues on demand. The company is creating human body tissue using 3-D printing, using a technology that provides more effective ways to test new drugs and could lead to 3-D bioprinting of entire […]
MBA Entrepreneurs Profit As Schools Pump Record Sums Into Ventures
Before Alex Money enrolled in a master’s and later a PhD at Oxford University, he was a fund manager in the City of London, where he spent two decades working in investor relations and as a portfolio manager at Citibank, among other financial services groups. Now he is a start-up founder, working out of a […]
SpeedInvest launches €50m second fund
The fund has been launched in partnership with start-up platform Pioneers and business angel Johann Hansmann. SpeedInvest CEO Oliver Holle hinted the fund would be holding its first close by the end of 2014. The fund, which aims to bridge the gap between a start-up incubator and a seed investor, will have a typical lifespan […]
Merck’s venture arm invests in data security for academia, gov’t & biotech collaboration
Identity management software company Exostar has received a $5 million investment from Merck’s venture arm to expand its healthcare and life sciences business. This centers on secure data collaboration, because big pharma – as pretty much every healthcare-related operation -needs to operate more lithely in the new world of big data. Data security’s become hugely paramount in the health […]
Ohio Third Frontier awards more than $8.4 million to University of Akron, Cleveland Clinic and other Northeast Ohio innovators, universities
The Ohio Third Frontier Commission on Wednesday approved $12.5 million to support startups, commercialize technologies, and help companies develop innovative products. Two-thirds of the money, or more than $8.4 million, was awarded to The University of Akron, the Cleveland Clinic and four other Northeast Ohio businesses and research entities. Other recipients statewide were: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, The […]
Indiana Purdue Collaboration is a ‘Fund With Afterburners’
Qualified Purdue-affiliated startups have two more resources to advance their companies through a three-year, $2 million fund as well as the addition of two new entrepreneurs-in-residence through a collaboration among the Purdue Foundry, Elevate Ventures and the Indiana Economic Development Corporation. “There are three critical assets a startup needs to be successful: a viable product, […]
Innovation Works collects almost $24 mln for early-stage Pittsburgh tech fund
Investment in Pittsburgh technology companies is significantly increasing due to an uptick in investment from existing, local venture capital, an influx of out-of-town investment, and now a new fund from Innovation Works called Riverfront Ventures. In just the first nine months of 2014, the amount of venture capital flowing to Pittsburgh’s growing technology companies is […]
Partnerships with ASU bring startup acceleration program to New York | ASU News
Thanks to new partnerships between Arizona State University’s Furnace Technology Transfer Accelerator and community development partners in New York, entrepreneurs in upstate New York will have the opportunity to commercialize technologies developed by the Air Force Research Lab – Information Directorate based in Rome, New York. “Arizona State University is proud to bring this startup […]
This $50M investment fund has money for Maryland health companies it says are being ignored by investors
A new venture fund will target Maryland companies that have been skipped over by other deep-pocketed investors who focus on technology hotbeds like Silicon Valley. BioHealth Innovation Inc. on Tuesday announced its new $50 million BioHealth Gap fund. The fund will invest in early-stage life sciences, pharma, health IT and related companies based in central […]
University to help fund future of horticulture research with $400K seed fund
The University of Melbourne will contribute $200,000 alongside the Department of Environment and Primary Industries (DEPI) to establish the Innovation Seed Fund, announced today as part of the Department’s new Horticulture Centre of Excellence. The $400,000 fund will underpin research to help develop Victoria’s horticultural industries over the next three years, with a focus on […]