OSU startup receives investment from venture capital firm
OSU affiliated startup Titan Intake Inc. recently received a strategic investment from Tulsa-based venture capital firm 46VC. Titan Intake, a Tulsa-based software company, has developed a unique platform designed to automate the process of patient intake and referrals. Unlike the traditional way of sending referrals by fax machine, Titan deploys a full suite of tools that allows capture […]
NewHaptics Raises Growth Capital From The Accelerate Blue Fund
NewHaptics, an innovative tactile display technology company, announced it has raised growth capital from the Accelerate Blue Fund. This represents the Company’s first round of venture funding, and is a meaningful milestone towards commercializing an affordable refreshable braille and tactile graphics display. “We are excited to partner with Accelerate Blue in order to further our […]
Nine Faculty Receive Provost’s Faculty Fellows Seed Grant Funding
Nine North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University faculty have received a portion of $225,000 in seed grant funding through the new Provost’s Faculty Fellows opportunity. Launched by North Carolina A&T’s Office of the Provost, Title III, and Division of Research, the Provost’s Faculty Fellows program was created to support faculty who are pursuing innovative […]
Oxford spin-out OXCCU raises US$22.8M to transform carbon dioxide into sustainable aviation fuel
OXCCU, a company spun-out from the University of Oxford in 2021 that is focused on converting carbon dioxide and hydrogen into industrial and consumer products (earlier post), completed an £18-million (US$22.8 million) Series A financing round. The round was led by Clean Energy Ventures with participation from investors Aramco Ventures; Eni Next, the corporate venture arm of […]
Student-Led NYU Impact Investment Fund Invests in Startup
The student-led NYU Impact Investment Fund (NIIF) has successfully completed its fourth investment with a $30,000 investment in EdVisorly, a Black- and female- founded business that has developed a community college-to-university platform, empowering community college students to connect with a university and achieve a bachelor’s degree. EdVisorly is NIIF’s latest annual investment in four years. “We are very proud […]
UMass Announces $250,000 in Technology Development Fund Awards
New technologies aimed at improving prostate cancer diagnosis, enhancing employment services for job seekers with disabilities, and optimizing clinical use treatments for melanoma patients could get closer to market thanks to $250,000 in seed funding announced today by the University of Massachusetts. Ten faculty research projects, including a research team from UMass Boston’s Institute for […]
Stanford launches fund to bring campus innovations to industry
Every year, hundreds of new inventions are disclosed to the Stanford University Office of Technology Licensing (OTL), but only a fraction get licensed to a commercial entity or attract investment. A new initiative of OTL, the High Impact Technology (HIT) Fund, hopes to bridge the gap between the academic lab and the market, where those discoveries can […]
AstraZeneca signs huge deal with UK start-up
Pharma giant AstraZeneca has signed a huge deal with a UK start-up to create treatments for diabetes and other autoimmune diseases. The FTSE 100 firm will team up with London-based Quell Therapeutics to collaborate on research and the licensing of any new medicines. The aim is to develop treatments for Type 1 diabetes and inflammatory […]
UArizona Health Sciences researchers receive Flinn seed grants to develop health care innovations
The Flinn Foundation announced the awardees of its 2023 Seed Grants to Promote Translational Research, with researchers from the University of Arizona Health Sciences receiving seven of the 12 grants. Each award recipient will receive a $100,000 grant over 18 months, during which time they will use the funds to de-risk innovations they are developing, refine […]
Innovators across the world gather at MIT to take their businesses to the next level | MIT News
A new MIT Bootcamp brought 48 experienced and emerging innovators from six continents to campus as they learned how to scale their ventures. The Venture Advancement Program, which ended on May 12, was organized by MIT Open Learning and delivered a mix of lectures, workshops, and mentoring sessions from leading MIT academics and startup veterans. […]