ODU entrepreneurial expo shows off student-run companies | Higher Education | pilotonline.com
Blade Taylor admits sometimes it’s hard for him to concentrate in classes. He’s got 3D printing, vinyl decals and profit margins on the brain. Grades? Minor details. “I came here to network,” Taylor said of his priority at Old Dominion University. If the way Taylor talks sounds more like a business executive than a college […]
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 […]
MariSol Federal Credit Union Donates $4,000 to Fund South Mountain Community College Student Venture Pitch Competition
South Mountain Community College’s (SMCC) Community Entrepreneurship Center receives a $4,000 donation from Marisol Federal Credit Union (FCU) to fund student venture pitch competitions (SVPC). The SVPC provides students the opportunity to take an idea for a new product or business and develop a plan to introduce it to the marketplace or to present new […]
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 […]
Cardiff University Enterprise Hosts New Ventures Series; Chance to Pitch to £200 Seed Fund
Cardiff University Enterprise is hosting a series of activities that aim to guide and support those that want to establish a new venture. These FREE sessions are open to Cardiff University students and recent graduates. Students from other welsh universities are also welcome to attend.
Eardrum Patch Start-up Receives $44K From Tulane University Business Competition
Tympanogen LLC, a New Orleans startup company with a nonsurgical patch for treating holes in the eardrum, has won $44,000 in a major graduate-level student startup competition.
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.