TMC names 3 startups to Houston health tech accelerator
The Texas Medical Center named three companies to its accelerator program. The health tech startups will join the program and make key connections to grow their technology and business. Texas Medical Center Innovation announced this year’s cohort for the TMC Innovation Accelerator for HealthTech. The companies attended TMCi’s boot camp earlier this year before being named to the […]
innovosource summit to connect early-stage investors with university-managed tech and startup funds and accelerator programs
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 20, 2022 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — innovosource will host its fifth annual COVERGENCE Summit from Oct. 20-21, 2022, at the University of Utah Rice-Eccles Stadium Club. The event gathers more than 60 university gap fund/accelerator programs (GAP) and potential commercial and investment partners to discuss best practices and review portfolios and investable projects and […]
U Utah PIVOT supported medical tech to be commercialized
Eliksa Therapeutics, a regenerative medicine company developing novel therapeutics for a range of debilitating diseases, announced today it has launched with investments from the University of Utah (U) and Militia Hill Ventures (MHV) to develop and commercialize multiple clinical programs using the regenerative medicine technology developed at the U. Eliksa obtained exclusive rights to amniotic […]
Bloomington tech startup receives Elevate Ventures funding, following investment from Indiana U
Bloomington-based tech startup Prospect XR has received a $20,000 investment from Elevate Ventures Community Ideation Fund. The company builds tools for businesses, communities and individuals to create and manage 3D virtual environments. Brady Anderson and Tyler Hayik founded Prospect XR in 2021 after receiving a grant from Indiana University to research how virtual reality could […]
Two Brandeis Spark Teams Accepted into the 2022 MassChallenge Cohort
Brandeis Spark, the university’s startup accelerator, is proud to announce that two of its teams were accepted into the 2022 MassChallenge cohort. MassChallenge, based in Boston with additional locations in Rhode Island, Texas, Israel, Mexico, and Switzerland, is a non-profit, zero equity accelerator supporting more than 400 startups from around the world and across industries each […]
Pittsburgh Inno – Pittsburgh tech startups collectively raise $103.8 million during second quarter
During the second quarter of 2022, 19 Pittsburgh tech companies raised a combined $103.8 million from venture capitalists, economic development entities, corporate investors and high-net-worth individuals. It handily topped the second-quarter dollars in 2021 and 2020, but was also the lowest three-month tally in a year, according to data from the PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor. The […]
Ex-Google chief’s venture aims to save neglected science software
See whether this sounds familiar: you build a piece of software to solve a research question. But when you move on to the next project, there’s no one to maintain it. As it ages, it becomes obsolete, and the next academic to tackle a similar problem finds themselves having to reinvent the wheel. That’s what […]
Emory University student venture fund is raising a new generation of investors | TechCrunch
Last year, a small group of Emory University graduate students at Goizueta Business School in Georgia began to examine the challenge of getting Black and other historically underrepresented founders access to capital. One way to do that, they reckoned, was to raise a generation of investors who would pay more attention to these groups. The idea […]
Bridging the gap between student to full-time entrepreneur | University of Waterloo
Beyond Velocity’s well-known incubator in Kitchener’s innovation district, Velocity supports more than 5,000 students per year through on-campus programs, such as Zero, Problem Lab and Cornerstone, designed to give University of Waterloo students an early start in entrepreneurship and create experiences to build key skills for any career path. Introduced during the pandemic, the Cornerstone program helps the most advanced […]
Spinning out science startups: UW’s Institute for Protein Design brings research beyond ivory tower
The Institute for Protein Design is an innovation factory. Since launching a decade ago, the University of Washington institution has grown to about 200 researchers and spun out eight startups wielding protein-design software to forge new drugs, vaccines, and enzymes. IPD spinouts have collectively raised more than $1 billion and helped fuel a biotech boom in Seattle, […]