Five teams named finalists in Chicago Innovation Exchange’s funding competition 

The Chicago Innovation Exchange has announced the five finalists in its Innovation Fund’s spring cycle. Twice per year, the fund takes applications, hears pitches and decides to invest in emerging technologies and startups out of the University of Chicago and its affiliates—Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The fund so far has invested […]

UChicago College New Venture Challenge Winners awards $20K

At the kick off to University of Chicago’s New Venture Challenges, two first year teams were awarded $10,000 to fund their dorm room ventures. The judges decided to split the first place prize at the College New Venture Challenge (open only to undergraduates), awarding $10,000 to both Athenir, a research aggregate service, and UProspie, a […]

IBM Watson Group Awards University of Texas at Austin Top Spot in Intercollegiate Competition

NEW YORK and AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced the first winner of its Watson University Competition, part of the company’s partnership with top universities through its cognitive computingacademic initiative. The winning team of student entrepreneurs from the University of Texas at Austin will receive $100,000 in total in seed funding to help […]

Brown Foundations’ $2.5 Million Challenge Kicks Off U Arizona Catapult Corp

Our modern world is changing faster than we can conceive and universities are at the forefront of progress. Often academic discoveries struggle to reach their intended markets, but a new and groundbreaking program launched at the University of Arizona will help ensure its best minds turn their original ideas into viable and profitable companies. The […]

Penn GSE’s Innovative Collaboration for Start-Ups Finalizes Newest Cohort

Philadelphia, PA, July 1, 2014 – Penn’s Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE) has announced that the Education Design Studio, Inc. (EDSi), a $2.1 million hybrid incubator and seed fund built specifically for education ventures, has selected its second cohort of entrepreneurs to join them in Philadelphia this August. Nine early stage edtech start-ups have signed […]

Seton Hall University Venture Fund Competition awards $10K in prizes

Seton Hall University’s Stillman School of Business‘ Center for Entrepreneurial Studies will award $10,000 in prizes at the annual Seton Hall University Venture Fund Competition. The public is invited to attend the competition, which will be held on Friday April 11 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Jubilee Hall Auditorium.