John Deere announces its 2023 Startup Collaborators
Deere & Company has released the names of eight companies chosen for its 2023 Startup Collaborator program. The Startup Collaborator was launched in 2019 and helps John Deere enhance precision technology in its agriculture and construction equipment. This year’s Startup Collaborator participants. “This year’s group shows the importance of connecting with the startup community across […]
TEDCO Tech transfer program creates high-paying jobs, accelerates product development
University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) is one of five universities working in partnership with TEDCO as part of our Maryland Innovation Initiative (MII). MII was established in 2012 as a technology transfer program with the goal to grow and accelerate promising technologies through venture creation. According to Arti Santhanam, Ph.D., executive director of MII, Maryland’s elevation in national […]
Drexel Launches Innovation Fund to Address World’s Most Pressing Challenges
Drexel University announced the launch of the Innovation Fund, which invests in early-stage Drexel student and postgraduate startups, as well as startups founded to commercialize the results of Drexel scientific research. “This is a bold new initiative to empower our problem solvers to dream big and take on society’s most pressing challenges,” said Drexel President […]
UChicago launches Polsky Deep Tech Ventures to support startups bringing science and tech to market
he University of Chicago has unveiled Polsky Deep Tech Ventures, a new initiative offering a suite of sector-specific accelerators, entrepreneurial training and funding dedicated to supporting startups that bring world-changing science and technology to market. This effort is aligned with the research strengths of UChicago, Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Drawing on […]
CSU accelerator named semi-finalist in DOE incubator program
An ongoing accelerator led by Colorado State University and Innosphere has been named a semi-finalist in a U.S. Department of Energy-sponsored incubator program, securing $50,000 in funding with the potential to vie for $100,000 and $500,000 in later rounds of competition. The venture is called REACH (Rockies/Plains Energy Accelerator for Commercializing Hardtech), and it is focused […]
Commonwealth Cyber Initiative’s Ideation to Commercialization program seeks proposals, seeds larger opportunities
The Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) is seeking proposals from Southwest Virginia researchers for Innovation: Ideation to Commercialization. This program is designed to provide paths to market for research and technologies with the potential for significant societal and economic impact within the intersection of data, autonomy, and security. CCI Southwest Virginia’s research areas emphasize cybersecurity related to fast, secure, […]
Creating impact in the community inspires academic entrepreneurs
he goals that Dr. Mehdi Mohammadi Ashani, PhD, and Dr. Stephanie Bishop, PhD, share for their research inspired them to become academic entrepreneurs. “We are going from invention in the lab to innovation and commercialization,” Mohammadi says. “Seeing my product helping to improve patient outcome and making an impact is really important for me as […]
University of Texas launches $10 million seed fund with investment in vaccine storage pioneer – InnovationMap
Planting a seed seems like a quaint activity, but the University of Texas at Austin doesn’t do anything small. Its new $10 million UT seed fund is going into incubation soon, thanks to the efforts of Discovery to Impact, the team leading the University’s “research commercialization and innovation efforts.” Except for its scale, this project is no […]
Parallel 18: Where Startups Come to Thrive | Business | theweeklyjournal.com
FinTech, PropTech, AgroTech. Combine any industry with “tech” and you’ve got yourself a startup. The combination of traditional industries with developing internet and Web3 technology has indeed created a plethora of business ideas. Supporting this growth on the island is Parallel 18 (P18), a non-profit program affiliated with the Puerto Rico Science, Technology, and Research […]
AOL co-founder: Silicon Valley will remain ‘leader’ of the startup world…or will it?
EDITOR OPINION: For the first time in a decade, less than 30 percent of total U.S. venture capital has gone to Silicon Valley… Maturing regional/local ecosystems supported by new sources of funding/innovation support, migration, and open relationship-building are creating beds of talent, capital, and emerging technology that make finding, funding, and scaling companies away from […]