Sodexo launches strategic venture capital fund, dedicated to accompanying innovative start-ups
Sodexo, world leader in Quality of Life services, announced today the launch of Sodexo Ventures, a 50 million euro venture capital fund, whose investments will combine agility and creativity with the Group’s investment capacity, skills and expertise in sectors as varied as Food-Tech, health and wellness, data, mobility and smart buildings. Sodexo Ventures will invest […]
Tel Aviv University Launches New IoT Tech Investment Fund with 5 Corporate Giants
Tel Aviv University’s technology transfer company, Ramot, launched a new Internet of Things (IoT) investment fund on Monday in partnership with five international tech giants. According to Ramot, the fund will focus on locating exceptional Israeli initiatives in early stages of development (pre-seeding, seeding), and help build them up to the point of exit into […]
Corporate VC Fund launched to support University of Wolverhampton uni spin-outs
A new investment fund to support university spin-outs has been launched by steel company Caparo and the University of Wolverhampton. The £400,000 CIC Investment Fund will award cash in return for shares, with either Caparo or University of Wolverhampton staff joining the board of each spin-out it invests in. Lord Paul of Marylebone, chancellor of […]
Launch of Alberta Transplant Innovation Fund to Accelerate Transplant Research and Innovation
The University Hospital Foundation, Alberta Economic Development and Trade and Astellas Pharma Canada, Inc. (Astellas) today announced a new research and innovation partnership that will have a direct and tangible impact on some of the most vulnerable Albertans – those waiting for organ transplantation. The three organizations have partnered to establish the $1.2 million dollars […]
Allied Minds and GE Ventures Form Strategic Alliance to Commercialize Leading-Edge Technologies
Allied Minds plc (LSE: ALM) (“Allied Minds”) and GE Ventures (NYSE: GE) (“GE”), today announced the launch of a strategic alliance to jointly identify and commercialize next-generation technologies. Under the terms of the agreement, Allied Minds and GE Ventures agree to invest in new and existing technologies sourced from both Allied Minds’ and GE’s innovation […]
Macomb Innovation Fund, JP Morgan Chase Announces $375,000 in Awards to Six Detroit-area Technology Startups
Six early-stage companies from Oakland and Wayne counties will receive $375,000 in funding from the Innovation Fund Macomb Community College, Powered by JPMorgan Chase & Co. The unique initiative provides mentoring and capital to early-stage businesses, as well as learning opportunities for Macomb Community College’s students The Innovation Fund is a $2.7 million effort […]
GE Healthcare to invest up to $50 million in start-up accelerator programme
GE Healthcare, the $18 billion healthcare technology division of General Electric Co., will provide funding of up to $50 million for global start-ups under its new accelerator five.eight programme, aimed at improving affordable healthcare in emerging markets. The company said on Friday that it would potentially invest up to $5 million per start-up to commercially […]
3 Leading Bay Area Research Universities to Partner in $600M Chan Zuckerberg Medical Science ‘Biohub’
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) announced Wednesday they will join forces in a new biomedical science research center funded by a $600 million commitment from Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg and pediatrician Priscilla Chan. The San Francisco-based Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, an independent […]
Arizona State’s Avnet Innovation Lab to Fund Tech Entrepreneurs
Arizona State University and global technology distributor Avnet are offering $250,000 in grant funding for technology entrepreneurs. The grants are being awarded through the Avnet Innovation Lab, a startup accelerator launched in May in ASU’s Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. Through the lab’s 12- to 18-month program, participants receive monetary support as well as […]
PepsiCo extends innovation fund to educational institutions
Eligible colleges and universities will have the opportunity to submit sustainability project proposals to PepsiCo Recycling that present tangible environmental, economic and social impacts. The proposals will also need to demonstrate the ingenuity, scalability and evident student community support for the proposed project to receive funding. PepsiCo recycling programme director Meagan Smith said: “Great ideas […]