Venture Grants Fund Growth and Exploration for Colorado College Students
Keller Venture Grants, made possible by the Keller Family Foundation, allow hundreds of Colorado College students to create and implement their own research projects by providing students up to $1,000. Last year, the program provided nearly $150,000 in student research funds and saw 146 CC students pursue their own individual research projects on campus, across […]
Alumnus seeds Swartz Center thats poised to draw innovation at CMU and in Pittsburgh
Carnegie Mellon University’s “hub for entrepreneurship,” the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship, got its official start Tuesday in the best possible way — surrounded by CMU innovators hoping to take their companies to the next level. James Swartz, the co-founding partner of Accel Partners, a venture capital firm that has helped fund some of the country’s […]
Group seeks to guide philanthropists to supplement crunch in federal funding of research
Poring over a list of the top 50 US philanthropists in 2014, physicist Marc Kastner noticed that 16 were based in California, compared with just 6 in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey combined. “That made it pretty clear where I should be,” says Kastner, who established the offices of the Science Philanthropy Alliance in […]
Marc and Lynne Benioff’s $20 million gift to USC supports research and treatment innovations to fight cancer
USC Trustee Marc Benioff ’86 and his wife, Lynne, have given $20 million toward construction of theLawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine of USC, a new center in Los Angeles that will combine interdisciplinary research with the holistic prevention and treatment of cancer. In recognition of the gift, the lobby of the Ellison Institute […]
Northwestern receives $10.25 million gift from Galvin family for Kellogg, NUseeds Fund
The Christopher B. Galvin Family Foundation donated $10.25 million to Northwestern, the University announced Monday. The gift brings the total of the $3.75 billion “We Will” campaign to more than $3 billion. The Galvin family has contributed more than $18 million to the University since the campaign launched in March 2014. “Through their meaningful and […]
Why Money Is Rushing Into Venture Capital from University Endowments
Venture capitalists may be storing up supplies for winter. With VC fundraising on track for its best year since the dot-com era, some investors say there’s a rush to raise cash before it disappears. Paul Hsiao, an investing partner at Canvas Ventures, said one reason the firm raised its latest fund sooner than planned was to avoid a “correction” […]
Blavatnik Family Foundation provides $10 million for innovation in the life sciences at Yale University
Yale University has received a $10 million grant from the Blavatnik Family Foundation, headed by American industrialist and philanthropist Len Blavatnik, to advance entrepreneurship in the life sciences at Yale and to expedite the development, application, and commercialization of breakthrough research. The multi-year grant will support the Blavatnik Fund for Innovation at Yale, designed to […]
Ara Parseghian Medical Research Fund launches at Notre Dame
Building on the partnership that the University of Notre Dame formed with the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Foundation in 2010, the University has now established the Ara Parseghian Medical Research Fund and is moving the administrative functions and granting process of the foundation from Tucson, Arizona, to Notre Dame. Through this partnership, the Parseghian family […]
Badger Fund of Funds launches first venture capital fund in La Crosse
The Badger Fund of Funds, seeded with a $25million commitment from the state, said Thursday it will launch its first venture capital fund in La Crosse. The Idea Fund of La Crosse will be managed by Jonathon Horne, a LaCrosse native who previously worked in investment banking at J.P. Morgan in New York. He was […]
Weills donate $185M to UCSF for neuroscience research, innovation fund
Former Citigroup Chairman Sandy Weill, his wife Joan, and The Weill Family Foundation are donating $185 million to the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to establish the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences. Advances in medical research have largely focused on cancer and cardiovascular diseases, whereas studies on the brain have only recently begun to […]