NC Biotech Center awards $3.6M in loans, grants :: Editor’s Blog at WRAL TechWire
The North Carolina Biotechnology Center awarded 47 loans and grants totaling $3.6 million to universities, bioscience companies and other entities in the fourth quarter of its 2016-2017 fiscal year ending June 30. The awards will support life science research, technology commercialization and entrepreneurship throughout North Carolina and help universities and companies attract additional funding from […]
Birmingham AI start-up secures £200,000 Centrica backing
Birmingham-based Grid Edge is the brainchild of three researcher friends, Tom Anderson, Dr Jim Scott and Dr Dan Wright, who met while working together at Aston University’s European Bioenergy Research Institute in 2012. Following three years of product development, the trio has created cloud-based energy management software which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to forecast the […]
University of Georgia Idea Accelerator to welcome largest class to date
The University of Georgia Idea Accelerator will soon welcome its fall 2017 class, potentially the largest in its four year history. The UGA Idea Accelerator is an eight-week program run by the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), in conjunction with the UGA Entrepreneurship Program and Four Athens, a local tech and entrepreneurship incubator. Students in each class work to develop viable […]
University of Delaware founder gets $474K from State to fund new cancer drug company Prelude
Delaware’s Council on Development Finance has voted a $474,491 grant to Prelude Therapeutics, the latest company founded by Dr. Krishna Vaddi, whose previous cancer drug development company, Incyte, is now one of the state’s largest public companies. Prelude, another cancer drug “discovery-based biotech company” that employs around 12 at the University of Delaware’s Star Campus […]
Hong Kong X Technology Fund backs six startups, expands to Jordan
Hong Kong X Technology Fund has backed six HK-based emerging technology companies as part of an accelerator programme. This coincides with the launch of its second X-LAB, a co-working space for technology companies, in Jordan on 12 August 2017. This will see several of the investee companies move into X-LAB, sponsored by publicly-listed Sino Group, one […]
Texas Medical Center TMCx Welcomes New Medical Device Class
The Texas Medical Center (TMC) Innovation Institute kicked off its four-month accelerator program this week by welcoming 19 startups from across the world to introduce their medical devices to the Houston health care market. This is the fifth installment of TMCx, a program designed to meet the needs of startups at every stage—from ideation to commercialization—by lowering […]
MEDC MTRAC Advanced transportation technology projects receive $600,000 in grants
Seven advanced transportation technology projects have secured a share of $600,000 in grants that intend to help developers and researchers commercialize their product. The grant is funded in part by Michigan Translational Research and Commercialization’s advanced transportation innovation hub at the University of Michigan and the Michigan Economic Development Corp.’s Entrepreneur and Innovation initiative. Five […]
UT Arlington translational research grants to help fund cancer, drug research
Funding for the Interdisciplinary Research Program along with the awarding of three seed grants will take effect Aug. 1. The program was awarded donations to provide seed funding for scholars to conduct cancer and drug research. “The awarded grants are intended to provide seed funding for the team of investigators to generate pilot data for […]
Wireless technology draws SUNY, Research Foundation investment
SUNY Oswego recently received notice of an award from the SUNY Technology Accelerator Fund (TAF) to advance the commercial readiness of a novel device that will enable fast and secure transfer of wireless data. Jointly funded by the State University of New York and the Research Foundation for SUNY, the TAF investment targets critical research […]
Internet of Things startup with Argonne roots gets $8 million
Gary Conkright was working on the internet of things before it had such a catchy name. He’s on his second IoT startup, PhysIQ, which he started 12 years ago. The Chicago health-technology company, which has offices in the Loop and Naperville, just raised another $8 million. Its software helps health care providers automatically monitor the […]