Category: New Fund Announcement

Wolverine Fund, Social Ventures Fund, and more student-led initiatives at U Michigan

Talk about the current state of venture capital in North America and states like California and Massachusetts are immediately invoked. Have a conversation about building the venture capital communities of tomorrow, and you might be surprised to hear Michigan’s name surface. The University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business is a pioneer is creating student-run […]

Overview of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Proof of Concept Fund

1. Background The University is proactive in introducing new funding channels to facilitate technology transfer from university research to industries. The Proof-of-Concept Fund (PCF) is established to enhance technology transfer process with the support of the Knowledge Transfer (KT) Fund from the Hong Kong Government. PCF aims at facilitating university researchers to demonstrate the industrial potentials […]

Bemidji State University Begins Small Gap Fund Effort For Faculty and Students

  Faculty Scholarship and Innovation Fund: Introduction Scholarship and innovation is highly valued at Bemidji State University. The office of Academic Affairs and the Center for Professional Development want to assist BSU faculty in their efforts to secure funding for individual or group research, pursue innovative approaches to teaching and learning, and to pursue external […]

Overview of New University of Michigan MCubed Program

MCubed is a new seed-funding program developed at the University of Michigan to stimulate and support innovative research. The program grew out of the IdeaWorks project in the College of Engineering and is part of the University’s Third Century Initiative.

Dell Sets Up $60M Storage Start-up Fund

Dell also said the computer maker has established a $60 million venture fund to invest in storage technologies. The fund will back startups that aim to house growing amounts of data at businesses with fewer than 50,000 employees, for example, and those building computer servers with solid-state storage, the CEO said at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech […]

State-supported, Pennsylvania venture fund to support early stage software companies

The dearth of early-stage capital available to fund young technology companies in the Philadelphia region is nothing new. It was a source of concern for entrepreneurs and economic-development types in the late ’80s, when I moved here. Hand-wringing resumed early last decade after the bursting of the technology-stock bubble. And since the financial crisis-induced recession, […]

U Michigan partners with venture capital group to support start-ups

A new partnership between the University of Michigan’s tech transfer office and the Michigan Venture Capital Association (MVCA) aims to increase the commercialization of university technology by granting members of the MVCA access to UM-based research and start-ups.

Alaskan 49th State Angel Fund Is Ready to Roll

Alaskans are full of great ideas. We’ve dreamed up making facial cream out of glacial silt and turning salmon into vodka. But to make money, you need money. And that’s where the 49th State Angel Fund comes in. This spring, the Municipality of Anchorage received a $13.2 million federal allocation to establish the 49th State […]

$20 Million W Fund, Focusing on Research Spinouts, Open for Business

We’ve been hearing about a new investment fund for university spinouts in Washington state for close to two years. Starting today, the W Fund is officially ready to start cutting checks—and it’s already started investigating promising research projects from colleges and government R&D labs around the state.