CIT GAP Funds puts $50K into Cyber Security Technology
Virginia’s Center for Innovative Technology has invested $50,000 in Power Fingerprinting Inc. The investment from CIT’s GAP Fund will be used for further development of Power Fingerprinting’s technology that detects embedded security threats in computer systems in order to thwart malicious cyber attacks.
State-supported, Pennsylvania venture fund to support early stage software companies
The dearth of early-stage capital available to fund young technology companies in the Philadelphia region is nothing new. It was a source of concern for entrepreneurs and economic-development types in the late ’80s, when I moved here. Hand-wringing resumed early last decade after the bursting of the technology-stock bubble. And since the financial crisis-induced recession, […]
Prize-Based Innovation for University of Notre Dame Computer Science & Engineering Students and Faculty
The University of Notre Dame’s Computer Science & Engineering program will collaborate with Schurz Communications on a first-of-its-kind “innovation challenge,” beginning fall semester, 2012. Undergraduates, graduate students and faculty will be asked to consider real-world digital solutions and opportunities for 21st -century media companies. A first area of focus will be mobile development.
U Michigan partners with venture capital group to support start-ups
A new partnership between the University of Michigan’s tech transfer office and the Michigan Venture Capital Association (MVCA) aims to increase the commercialization of university technology by granting members of the MVCA access to UM-based research and start-ups.
U-M awards first $100K translational medical research award
Administrators at the University of Michigan’s A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute announced Monday the winner of the first $100,000 translational medical research award.
$53M translational research grant to U-M will help health researchers develop new therapies — with the public’s help
University of Michigan scientists and doctors do some of the most advanced medical research in the world. But much of it wouldn’t be possible without the thousands of people a year who volunteer their time, health information, blood, saliva, DNA or other samples to help those researchers better understand diseases and improve health outcomes. Now, […]
U Wisconsin-Madison Translational Research Institute Grant Renewed with $41.5 Million
The new award allows the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research to continue its major program of cultivating the development of researchers who can conduct translational research. This is the research in which discoveries move as quickly as possible along a continuum from the university to doctors’ offices, clinics, hospitals and county health departments where […]
Invest Illinois supports four Champaign-Urbana area start-ups
Four startup companies with ties to the Champaign-Urbana area have been approved to receive equity investments from the state’s new Invest Illinois Venture Fund.
Pure Michigan Venture Development Fund Accepting Applications
LANSING– The Michigan Economic Development Corporation has announced that the Michigan Strategic Fund is targeting to invest up to $9 million to help grow the venture capital industry in Michigan.
Ben Franklin’s Energy Commercialization Institute awards translational research grants to area universities
The Energy Commercialization Institute (ECI), the region’s first university-based energy commercialization partnership, has awarded $500K to five university-based translational research and commercialization projects. The funding is intended to jump start promising technologies and help build southeastern Pennsylvania’s alternative energy infrastructure.