Medtech start-ups among 12 selected for University of Edinburgh AI Accelerator
Twelve teams of artificial intelligence entrepreneurs will begin the six-month AI Accelerator – part of a wider Data Driven Entrepreneurship programme at the University – on 22 September. Its purpose is to help AI-driven start-ups with high growth potential to set foundations to become world-leading companies. The Accelerator’s cohort has been selected from 66 applicants worldwide. It […]
FORD’s Innovation Center set to support 8200 Impact accelerator program
The FORD Innovation Center, with the support of the FORD Fund in Israel, has announced that it will support the 8200 Impact accelerator program and its startup community. It is understood that FORD will help entrepreneurs develop technological solutions to social and environmental challenges. Over six cohorts, 8200 Impact companies have raised more than $58 […]
Three entrepreneurial ventures with MSU ties selected for HyperAccelerator program
Three entrepreneurial ventures with ties to Montana State University have been selected to participate in an intensive training program, known as a HyperAccelerator, that is supported by dozens of successful entrepreneurs serving as mentors. The three ventures with MSU ties, NanoMagnetic Solutions, Resilient Computing and SensorLogic, join two others, PestNotify and Harken Real Estate Solutions. […]
Pew Funds Six Teams to Advance Innovative Biomedical Research
The Pew Charitable Trusts announced today the six pairs of researchers who will make up its 2021 class of Innovation Fund investigators. These scientists—alumni of Pew’s biomedical programs in the United States and Latin America—will partner on interdisciplinary research to tackle some of the most pressing questions in human biology and disease. By combining their […]
$7.5 Million Venture Capital Fund To Be Led by HBCU Students
The Black Venture Capital Consortium (BVCC) and the Ford Foundation closed a $7.5 million fund that students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) will help manage while learning from experienced venture capitalists. Less than 2% of venture capitalists are people of color. And studies have shown that white investors tend to be racially biased in […]
Canada must bridge the innovation gap to prevent key discoveries from being overlooked
After years of research, a team led by Dr. Peter Hotez, co-director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital, had helped develop a vaccine to protect against severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS. The trouble was, more than a decade had passed since SARS infected millions of people around the world. As […]
Georgetown alumnus gift supports medical research through milestone-driven Medical Center Gap Fund
In an effort to support promising, early-stage research, for which there are limited federal dollars designated, the newly launched Georgetown University Medical Center Gap Fund will provide annual support to biomedical research that has demonstrated proof of concept and has potential to benefit society. The inaugural cohort of Medical Center Gap Fund awardees includes scientists […]
McGill Innovation Fund aims to find Canada’s next Google
Innovation. If ever there was a buzzword with staying power, this is it. Governments, corporations, and universities alike celebrate it, cherish it, and compete for it. But can they actually make it happen? And – in the particular case of academia – who does it even benefit if it does happen? One of the misconceptions […]
Johns Hopkins Tech Ventures startups raised more than $1B in funding for FY21
In fiscal year 2021, more than $1.2 billion in venture funding went to startups affiliated with Johns Hopkins Tech Ventures. That’s according to a recently released annual report from the Baltimore university’s department that works with faculty to bring discoveries from the lab to market, and incubates new companies. From July 2020 to June 2021, startups connected to […]
Women-led start-ups get less funding. Can accelerator and mentorship programs bridge the gap?
Dr. Pooja Viswanathan is used to being the only woman in the room. She studied computer science, artificial intelligence and robotics at the University of Toronto, University of Waterloo and UBC. “I think I was probably the only woman getting a PhD in robotics at UBC at the time,” Dr. Viswanathan recalls. When she transformed […]