Category: New Investments/Awards

Maryland Investment Fund Announces $600,000 Growth Investment in Motionsoft

The Maryland Venture Fund (MVF), the equity investment arm of the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development (DBED), has invested $600,000 in Rockville-based Motionsoft, a leading provider of SaaS member relationship management software (MRMS) and payment services for the health and fitness industry. Annapolis, Maryland (PRWEB) October 20, 2014 The investment comes as part […]

Oregon BEST Funding Will Speed Cross Laminated Timber Manufacturing in Pacific NW

PORTLAND, Ore. ­ At the Wood Solutions Fair, Oregon BEST today announced a new round of commercialization funding that will team southern Oregon-based DR Johnson Lumber Co. with Oregon State University researchers to determine how a new engineered building material made from lumber might catapult Oregon wood products to the forefront of construction innovation and […]

UBC seed-funded company develops 3-D printing of human tissue

You may have heard of printing on demand. A Vancouver startup, Aspect Biosystems, is putting a sci-fi twist on that, printing human tissues on demand. The company is creating human body tissue using 3-D printing, using a technology that provides more effective ways to test new drugs and could lead to 3-D bioprinting of entire […]

Raze Therapeutics launches with $24m in Series A financing

Cambridge-based Raze Therapeutics announced its launch Monday, adding that it has closed on a $24 million Series A financing. Investors in the Series A financing include Atlas Venture, MPM Capital Management, MS Ventures, Partners Innovation Fund, Astellas Venture Management, and Novartis, the Raze press release said. Atlas partner Jason Rhodes is Raze’s acting chief executive. […]

QED commercialization program to create life science spinout companies gets $1M grant

A few years after it launched a QED Proof of Concept funding program, the University City Science Center has unveiled a new fund for a commercialization program. It’s fueled by a $1 million grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration, according to a statement from the Science Center. Stephen Tang, the CEO of the Science […]

First university start-up investments selected by funder techstart Northern Ireland

stablished by Invest Northern Ireland as part of its Access to Finance strategy, techstart NI is providing support for early stage technology businesses and university spin-outs. The businesses, Inflyte and Brewbot, have received over £300,000 between them aspart of a £23.6million initiative is made up of a £13m SME equity fund, two university funds of […]

University of Oxford Isis Fund Makes First Investments

The £1.25 million University of Oxford Isis Fund, set up by Parkwalk Advisors and Isis Innovation in February, has made its first investments in medical device spin-out Oxtex and in Brainomix, a start up from the Isis Software Incubator which is developing software to improve stroke diagnosis. Brainomix is pioneering a system which puts the […]

Cambridge University breaks investment record with £2.7 million in investments

The University of Cambridge is raising a third enterprise fund this month having broken its early stage investment record for a second year running, approving nine seed fund investments for a total of £2.7 million – an increase on the £2.3m invested in 2012/13. Cash raised from its portfolio is being recycled in an exciting […]

Bend Natural Gas Vehicle Technology Startup Secures $3M with Help from Oregon BEST, ONAMI

PORTLAND, Ore. ­ Two of Oregon¹s signature research centers, Oregon BEST and ONAMI, today announced $400,000 in commercialization funding for Bend, Ore.-based startup Onboard Dynamics, Inc. The funding secures a $3-million grant from the U.S. Dept. of Energy¹s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), which invested an initial $1 million in the project two years ago.