University of Waterloo Startups to Pitch Live for Velocity Funding
Ten University of Waterloo startup companies will pitch their businesses for a share of $100,000 in grant funding at the Velocity Fund Finals on Thursday, July 24. The rewards include four $25,000 prizes as well as workspace at Velocity. The contenders come from diverse backgrounds spanning biotechnology, computer science, engineering, and nanotechnology. The companies are tackling current […]
Pitch Competition Celebrates and Funds New CU Boulder Ventures Founded by Women
The New Venture Challenge (NVC) and Deming Center for Entrepreneurship teamed up to present the NVC Women Founders competition, awarding $10,000 to groundbreaking new ventures. At the NVC Women Founders Competition, new ventures from CU Boulder students, faculty and staff that were founded by women presented on a range of ideas, from how restaurants can handle food waste in food […]
New UNM Research Grant to Support Collaborative Research Between UNM Main Campus and Health Sciences
UNM Rainforest Innovations is launching a pilot program called the UNM Health Sciences & Main Campus Research Collaboration Seed Grant to further support research collaboration efforts at UNM. The grant is intended to encourage investigators from the University of New Mexico Main Campus and Health Sciences to work together on advancing research that may lead […]
Ann Arbor SPARK invests $150,000 in innovative medical start up
Ann Arbor SPARK has announced a $150,000 investment in M3D as part of the company’s pre-seed funding round. M3D is an innovative startup in the medical device industry founded in Ann Arbor that develops technology that provides real-time detection and 3D imaging of radiation. Its proprietary 3D CZT technology is poised to redefine medical imaging […]
Cornell University’s Center for Technology Licensing Program Continues Funding Early-Stage Lab Innovations
Cornell’s Center for Technology Licensing (CTL) has announced the Ignite Innovation Acceleration grant recipients for the Fall 2023 application cycle. The eight projects range from advanced healthcare solutions and sustainable engineering to agriculture products and digital hiring solutions. Recipients were selected based on their potential to reach a critical inflection point towards commercialization and to […]
Yale Roberts Innovation Fund to Support Inventions in AI, Quantum, Water
New methods to purify our water, advance quantum computing, democratize artificial intelligence, and deliver life-saving drugs are just some of the projects funded by the 2024 Roberts Innovation Fund Awards, providing $1 million in accelerator funding to support 10 new inventions led by faculty from Yale’s School of Engineering & Applied Science. The Roberts Innovation […]
Vanderbilt celebrates Generative AI Seed Grant awardees | Vanderbilt University
As part of the Future of Learning and Generative AI Initiative launched last summer by the Office of the Chancellor, the Office of the Provost and the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Innovation, Vanderbilt recently announced the recipients of its Generative AI Seed Grants. The grant fund was designed to foster groundbreaking work in […]
Students pitch for £75,000 start-up pot at University of Bristol Innovation Showcase – The Business Magazine
Student entrepreneurs will pitch for a share of £75,000 in start-up funding at the University of Bristol Innovation Showcase 2023. During the public event on Tuesday, May 9, a dozen University of Bristol ventures will pitch to a panel of business experts in a Dragons’ Den-style competition. The Innovation Showcase also includes an exhibition of business ideas […]
Tulane Announces Winners of $50k ‘Demo Day’ Pitch Competition
The Tulane University Innovation Institute has announced the winners of its March 14 Demo Day pitch competition. The event showcased the work of 10 startups that the Tulane Innovation Institute had previously supported through the Green Wave Innovation Network Mentorship program, educational webinars, previous pitch competitions, or other Tulane University programming from the Albert Lepage […]
Canada Foundation for Innovation funds 19 research projects led by U of T, partner hospitals
Nineteen researchers at the University of Toronto and partner hospitals have received almost $60 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation through its Innovation Fund. The funding will support infrastructure needs in research areas ranging from genome sequencing to extreme mechanics and next-generation telescopes. “Our government is proud to support future generations by enabling students […]