U Washington C4C releases its Fall 2012 Commercialization Gap Fund awards, $420K in funding
Nine Research Teams Receive $420,000 to Develop Fledgling Technologies The UW Center for Commercialization (C4C) today announced the award of $420,000 in Commercialization Gap Funds (CGF) to nine UW research teams currently working on promising technologies. The CGF program is a partnership between the C4C and theWashington Research Foundation to provide up to $1.25 million per […]
Slideshow of seven, university venture funds
Upstart Business Journal just released a slideshow of seven university venture funds: Stanford University University of Minnesota Harvard University New York University University of Washington Carnegie Mellon University University of Texas System Ohio State/Ohio University Slideshow here: http://upstart.bizjournals.com/money/loot/2012/12/13/universities-starting-venture-capital.html
Florida State University GAP program puts some dollars towards improving the human condition
As the fall 2012 semester concludes, research at Florida State University is at an all time high. It’s so high, in fact, that four research projects from the Tallahassee community have recently been granted a total of $106,000 by the Florida State University Research Foundation to further pursue their individual area’s of expertise, which range […]
University of Minnesota announces two venture funds
The University of Minnesota plans to launch two venture capital funds next year, one of which will invest in startup companies that license university technology. The fund backing university startups will total $20 million in size and will make seed-stage investments over a 10-year period. A separate $50 million fund will invest in startups nationwide. The university’s […]
U Washington spin-out, Kona Medical, lands Series C funding
Kona Medical Inc. has raised $10 million in new Series C equity and debt financing.That brings its Series C total to $40 million, including $30 million raised in May. The Series C round included two large-cap strategic investors who joined with prior investors Essex Woodlands, Domain Associates, Morgenthaler Ventures, Western Technology Investments, BioStar Ventures, and individuals […]
Makerere University tops NORHED Seed Funding 2012 awards
Makerere University with 20 awards out of 97 grantees has as a single institution topped the list of 290 initial applications for seed funding from NORHED. The Norwegian Programme for Capacity Building in Higher Education and Research for Development (NORHED) is a new programme from the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) aimed at strengthening the capacity in higher […]
Oklahoma University, Oklahoma State, Cowboy Tech, and i2E partner in proof of concept center,fund
A collaboration between the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, Cowboy Technologies, LLC, and Innovation To Enterprise (i2E) promises to increase jobs and greatly enhance the number of new technologies that are spun out of university laboratories and into the marketplace. It will also accelerate the number of technology-based ventures in Oklahoma. A Memorandum of […]
Crowdfunding: Disrupting the Old Boys Network
A good opinion piece from David Drake, the expert at our first University Crowdfunding Policy Event (January 16th) REGISTER Crowdfunding for projects and companies is nothing new. In the online arena, however, it is quite young – in 1997 fans of the UK rock group Marillion ran the first recognized internet crowdfunding campaign, raising $60,000 […]
Scotish seed fund launches, support from Office of Science and Technology
NESTech is a £3m technology seed fund resulting from a successful application to the Office of Science and Technology [OST] University Challenge Fund by the University of St Andrews along with Dundee and Aberdeen Universities. NESTech’s purpose is to provide funding at the riskiest stage of the commercialisation process and to bridge the gap between university research […]
The University College of London delivers a suite of internal funds, translational research to start-up support
Internal Funding Translational Research Office Administered Funds Confidence in Concept UCL has been awarded £700,000 by the MRC to establish a Confidence in Concept fund to be used flexibly to support the earliest stages of multiple translational research projects. It is intended to accelerate the transition from discovery research to translational development projects by supporting […]