New ASU incubator provides support, funding for sustainable food-system ventures | ASU News
Arizona State University will celebrate those who have served the nation and their communities with an assortment of events across Phoenix metro campuses for this year’s Salute to Service happening Nov. 8–18. Salute to Service honors the military veteran community along with first responders, front-line medical workers, volunteers and the many other individuals working in public service. “We […]
Cleveland Clinic Launches New Quantum Innovation Program for Start-up Companies
Cleveland Clinic has launched the Cleveland Clinic Quantum Innovation Catalyzer Program, a competitive program for start-up companies to explore quantum computing applications in healthcare and life sciences. Up to four early- and growth-stage life sciences and healthcare technology companies will be selected by Cleveland Clinic through a competitive application process. Awarded start-ups will receive a 24-week […]
Impact Fund Iron Nation Launches To Support Early-Stage Israeli Startups
Iron Nation, a new volunteer emergency impact fund designed to help early-stage Israeli startups continue operating amid the nation’s war with Hamas, launched today. The fund aims to raise $20 million to support post-seed venture-backed startups in Israel, where an estimated 15-20% of the tech workforce has been called up to serve as military reservists in the […]
Biotech industry leader to helm WashU drug development accelerator – Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Shripad Bhagwat, PhD, a drug development expert with decades of experience in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, has been named the inaugural senior director of the Needleman Program for Innovation and Commercialization (NPIC) at Washington University in St. Louis. In addition to his role as senior director, Bhagwat has a research-track professor appointment in the Department […]
Johns Hopkins and U Maryland Life science accelerator launches with $100M grant
The life sciences accelerator Blackbird Laboratories Inc. launched Tuesday with a $100 million founding grant from The Stephen and Renee Bisciotti Foundation and research collaborations with Johns Hopkins University, the University of Maryland, Baltimore and the Lieber Institute for Brain Development. Blackbird Labs’ mission is to help universities and investigators commercialize their academic research to […]
Nex Cubed partners with HBCU.vc to launch scout program | TechCrunch
Nex Cubed, the venture accelerator that launched a $40 million fund to target founders from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), announced today a venture scouting partnership with the nonprofit HBCU.vc to help train the next generation of Black venture capitalists. HBCU.vc offers fellowships and an angel investing network to HBCU students and alumni, and Nex Cubed has trained […]
Oxford University Innovation closes £3m AI startup fund
Oxford University Innovation and Parkwalk Advisors have closed £3m for its latest fund backing early-stage startups. Shared exclusively with UKTN, the University of Oxford Innovation Fund was initially set up in 2014 to back tech and science spinouts from the university. The close marks the sixth Innovation Fund to date. The fund – known officially as […]
ACS BrightEdge Receives $5.25M Gift from Dallas-Based Lyda Hill Philanthropies to Establish Oncology Start Up Accelerator in Texas
BrightEdge LLC, the American Cancer Society’s (ACS) venture capital and impact investment arm, received its largest donation to date from Dallas-based Lyda Hill Philanthropies to establish the ACS BrightEdge Texas Accelerator, a two-year pilot innovation acceleration program hub. The $5.25M gift will allow for the funding of translational research grants and early-stage equity investments in emerging oncology […]
Building Commercialization Capacity in Innovation Ecosystems
Just like crop tops, flannel, and some truly unfortunate JNCO jeans that one of these authors wore in junior high, the trends of the 90’s are upon us again. In the innovation world, this means an outsized focus on tech-based economic development, the hottest new idea in economic development, circa 1995. This takes us back in time […]
Sheffield Hallam University launches medtech R&D accelerator
Sheffield Hallam University’s Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre is launching a new early-stage medtech and digital health R&D accelerator programme. Startups accepted onto the six-month programme will gain access to the centre’s resources to develop their products as well as non-dilutive R&D capital of up to £25,000. “The centre has seen fantastic outcomes from previous Wellbeing […]