U Michigan’s Student-led Social Venture Fund Invests In Mytonomy
ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 18, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Student-led fund participates in seed funding for high-growth edtech start up The Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business today announced that its Social Venture Fund, the nation’s first student-led impact […]
Oregon BEST Awards Commercialization Grant To University-Industry Collaboration On Stormwater Treatment Device
Oregon BEST has awarded a commercialization grant to an industry-university team developing a floating, solar-activated stormwater treatment device that could be deployed in retaining ponds or ditches along roadways and parking lots to keep contaminants from reaching streams. The technology could also be used to pre-treat stormwater, helping reduce overflow situations at municipal treatment facilities […]
Boston University Gap Funding Programs Back $250K In Translational Research
Some people think that commercialization – technology transfer – is something only engineers do. But a number of CAS professors have recently received funding from the BU Office of Technology Development (OTD) for important work they are doing.
QB3, A University of California Initiative, Shares Gap Funding Program Successes
The “valley of death”—the lack of proof-of-concept funding for scientists who want to commercialize their research—continues to frustrate entrepreneurs at the University of California. There has always been a gap between the discovery phase, which the NIH will fund, and proven technology that can attract private investment. That gap has widened over the past few years because […]
Beat Biotherapeutics, A U Washington Start-up, Raises $2.5M For Heart Failure Treatment
Beat Biotherapeutics looked like it was in trouble after its co-founder and CEO died suddenly in June 2009. But the University of Washington spinout is definitely back in business, after recruiting a veteran CEO and raising another $2.5 million to advance an experimental treatment for heart failure.
Rutgers University, UMDNJ Start-up, NovoPedics, Secures $500K For Implantable Device
Newly formed NovoPedics, Inc., has received a commitment of up to $500,000 from Foundation Venture Capital Group (FVCG) to advance its development of an implantable meniscus replacement/regeneration medical device.
Insight Accelerator, Chicago Universities Team To Spur Start-ups
In the last 25 years, the engineers and designers at Insight Product Development have come up with a portable CT scanner and a wireless cardiac implant monitor. For the next generation of breakthrough medical devices, the Chicago design shop is turning to the area’s research universities and entrepreneurs. Insight is opening an accelerator program called […]
Iowa Demonstration Fund Creates 600+ New Jobs, Millions In Tax Revenue
A state fund that provides financial and technical aid to spur the growth of high-tech firms has helped to create at least 600 new Iowa jobs over the past five years and generated $2.1 million in tax revenue from these firms in 2012 alone, a new report shows. The “Demonstration Fund” was established in 2007 […]
The Dorm Room Fund, Supported By First Round Capital, Puts $20K Into Student Ventures
Most college dormitories are a mixture of unmade beds, fireproof carpeting, beer pong, ramen noodles and that poster of John Belushi in “Animal House.” Investors want to add two more ingredients: successful start-ups and budding venture capitalists. “We’re trying to help students feel what it is to run a start-up, to take an idea that starts in […]
Finnish Government Launches 1B-Euro Program To Help Start-ups
Finland is turning to venture capital financing as it searches for ways to jolt the economy out of a recession without jeopardizing its AAA rating. The northernmost euro member wants to attract investors for a new 1 billion-euro ($1.28 billion) program and help startup companies without adding to its budget deficit. Finland is promising that investors who […]