UVA Licensing & Ventures Group Launches Entrepreneurs, Experts, and Executives in Residence Program to Guide Future UVA New Ventures
The UVA Licensing & Ventures Group (LVG) is launching a revitalized “EIR” program to accelerate startup formation with successful entrepreneurs, experts, and executives in residence. With support from the UVA Office of Economic Development, Albemarle County Economic Development, the City of Charlottesville Office of Economic Development (OED), and community partner CvilleBioHub, the EIRs will be […]
University of California and Blackstone to expand LaunchPad
The University of California is expanding an entrepreneurial guidance program to almost all of its campuses through a $5 million corporate partnership. The Blackstone Charitable Foundation’s LaunchPad program, which brings startup incubator Techstars’ global network of business mentors to students, will soon be available at all universities in the system except UC Santa Barbara. Victoria Slivkoff, […]
University’s Breakthrough-Lab supports student ventures
For eight weeks over the summer, student entrepreneurs gathered in the workspaces and lecture halls of the new Jonathan M. Nelson Center For Entrepreneurship to work on venture projects through the Breakthrough-Lab program. B-Lab — a summer program that supports students’ entrepreneurial projects — will close out its fifth annual cycle with a student showcase […]
MapQuest Founder Helps Arizona Startups Chart Routes to Success | Tech Launch Arizona
In August 2019, Tech Launch Arizona, the office of the University of Arizona that commercializes the university’s inventions, welcomed a new and accomplished member to its team. Barry J. Glick, who got his Ph.D. at the State University of New York at Buffalo in geography, founded a software startup company in 1988 to apply locational […]
Minneapolis-based Vensana Unveils $225 Million Venture Capital Fund
Vensana Capital, a venture capital firm focused on medical technology, on Wednesday announced its first venture capital fund. Known as Vensana Capital 1, the $225 million fund has received financial backing from a range of investing institutions, including public pensions, university endowments, foundations, and health systems, Vensana officials said in a news release. Investment interest […]
Here’s Why Mentorship is a Must for a Startup
Hundreds of young people are entering the startup ecosystem. It’s a flood of such companies and activity. The whole country is coming up with new ideas for products and service. Either they are new products, new services, or even new ways of doing the same things. Money is no longer an issue. HNIs are funding […]
UWM entrepreneurship center receives $1 million from Bud and Sue Selig
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee announced a $1 million gift Wednesday from former Milwaukee Brewers owner Bud Selig and his wife, Sue, the latest of several high-profile investments by big names in UWM and the UW System. Selig, who is the commissioner emeritus of Major League Baseball, is credited with bringing MLB back to Milwaukee in 1970 when he […]
UVA LVG Venture Fund participates in a $15.9M round for prescription decision support startup
RxRevu, a Denver, Colorado-based company focused on prescription decision support, has wrapped up a $15.9 million Series A funding round. Colorado-based health system UCHealth led the round. Participation also came from the University of Virginia LVG Venture Fund, Presbyterian Healthcare Services (NM), Inception Health/Froedtert Health, Children’s Hospital Colorado, UnityPoint Health, JAZZ Venture Partners and other existing investors. Founded in […]
U Michigan chip design startup raises $6 million in venture funding
Movellus Inc., a University of Michigan startup, has secured $6 million in Series A venture funding for a total of $10 million so far. The company provides technology that helps accelerate and optimize semiconductor chip design. Its applications include cloud computing, the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence. The $6 million in funding was led […]
UT Health San Antonio Plans New Accelerator for Faculty Research
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio is starting an internal accelerator program for inventors who work at the institution, with the goal of picking a first group of five to eight prospective entrepreneurs around May. The accelerator, which UT Health is calling TechNovum, will run its first program from June through […]