Rowan innovation fund expands to $25 million | Rowan Today | Rowan University
Furthering Rowan University’s commitment to a robust South Jersey economy, the Rowan University Foundation expanded its venture capital fund in August to $25 million. The Rowan Innovation Venture Fund (RIVF), which launched with $5 million in 2014 to seed visionary start-up ideas, received an additional $20 million to back a pipeline of evolving businesses from within and […]
New endowment fund will power student innovation at MIT Sandbox | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Through a $1 million gift from Daniel Gilbert ’91 and his wife, Judy, the MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund Program gained a permanent source of funding with the establishment of the MIT Sandbox Endowment Fund. The new fund allows MIT Sandbox to expand its entrepreneurship education offerings to MIT undergraduate and graduate students, bringing to life the […]
Harvard Launches Science and Engineering Startup Program | Harvard Magazine
HARVARD’S ALREADY IMPRESSIVE ability to transform breakthroughs made in University labs into commercial products that could benefit society, especially in the biomedical realm, took another step forward today with the announcement of a new initiative that will support technology development in the physical sciences and engineering. The Office of Technology Development and the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering […]
BioInnovation Institute announces new cohort of companies entering the Venture Lab program
BioInnovation Institute (BII), an international commercial non-profit foundation incubating and accelerating world-class life science research, today announces the latest cohort of participants in its Venture Lab acceleration program for early-stage companies. The cohort consists of nine ventures plus two corporate-sponsored innovation projects from Novo Nordisk – all strategically aligned with BII’s focus on developing ground-breaking scientific initiatives […]
Dorm Room Fund has spun out of First Round Capital with a $12.5M fund
After years of operating under local VC firm First Round Capital, the Dorm Room Fund is taking on a new life as an independent firm with $12.5 million to invest. The news came from Fortune early Tuesday, confirmed by First Round founder Josh Kopelman in an email to Technical.ly. Dorm Room Fund, focused on ventures started by college students, launched back in 2012 as […]
Mayo, ASU MedTech Accelerator advances health care delivery in Arizona
One year ago, Arizona State University’s Health Futures Center opened its doors and started a new chapter in the long-standing partnership between ASU and the globally renowned Mayo Clinic. Located in northeast Phoenix, south of Loop 101, the brand-new campus and state-of-the-art medical research facility is home to the Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University Alliance for Health […]
Chancellor’s Innovation Fund Awards Support to Six Promising Projects
Innovation isn’t easy. Turning a research discovery into tangible technology takes time, resources and dedication. That’s why at NC State, we aim to ensure that some of our best ideas have as much support as possible. And thanks to the Chancellor’s Innovation Fund (CIF), six more projects this year will receive seed funding and support from the Office […]
CSIRO revives its ON Accelerate program
The CSIRO has revived its ON startup accelerator program, three years after shutting it down, as the government and universities ramp up their push to commercialise research. ON originally launched in 2015 as part of CSIRO’s Innovation Catalyst strategy, supported by former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull’s National Innovation and Science Agenda. But in late 2019, […]
New venture capital firm targets OU startups
For a long time, University of Oklahoma graduate and retired business executive James Spann has been watching OU innovations take flight. The problem was, they were flying to places like Austin, Texas, and Boulder, Colorado, where they found financial backing needed to succeed. Spann is now hoping to stop that migration with a new venture […]
KU Leuven spin-off AstriVax raises € 30 million seed capital to build vaccine platform
Leuven, Belgium, 25 August 2022 –Closing on € 30 million, AstriVax has raised the largest amount of seed capital in the history of KU Leuven spin-offs. The company will draw on technology developed at the KU Leuven Rega Institute to develop novel vaccines that are easy to produce, have reduced cold chain requirements, and offerbroad and long-lasting protection against various viruses and other pathogens. The funding round was led by V-Bio […]