[COA Member] Utah’s Kickstart launches state’s richest seed investment fund
hile investment deals in startup companies are down signficantly among North American venture capital firms, one Utah company that specializes in early funding is on an arc of success that is showing no signs of slowing down. Kickstart Seed Fund announced Wednesday the state’s largest ever seed-dedicated venture capital fund and, at $74 million, the […]
[COA Member] University of Virginia Licensing & Ventures Group Seed Fund Announces Three Investments
Since its launch, the UVA LVG Seed Fund has made three investments in companies based on technology developed from UVA research discoveries and licensed from the UVA Licensing & Ventures Group (LVG). Also, the Fund has launched and expanded a directive study course now in its second semester at UVA’s Darden School of Business and […]
U California Riverside Highlander Venture Fund Makes Its First Investment
The University of California, Riverside’s Highlander Venture Fund (HVF) announced its first investment today. The $250,000 investment was for NanoCellect Biomedical Inc., a developer of microfluidic cell-sorting technologies for cell-based assays. The San Diego-based firm was founded in 2009 by Jose Morachis, a UC Riverside alumni. The financing for the $10 million round of funding […]
Schurz Communications awards funding to four Purdue student startups
Schurz Communications Innovation Challenge, an incubation competition for student entrepreneurs working in online and mobile media technology, awarded funding to four Purdue University startups. The competition provided a total of $10,500 in cash prizes to four startups. The Purdue Foundry in the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship hosted the competition. As first-prize winner, One-Man […]
University College London invests in data anonymisation software developer Anon AI ahead of GDPR
The University College London (UCL) Technology Fund has invested in a data anonymisation software start-up called Anon AI. The Fund was set-up in January 2016 to help commercialise intellectual property developed at the University, focusing in particular on the physical and life sciences. Academics whose research has commercial potential can apply for funding for early-stage […]
Texas A&M research program to fund seven more projects
The Texas A&M College of Science has big plans for its participation in a university-wide collaborative research initiative in 2018 with goals to provide up to $600,000 in support for teams participating in the Strategic Transformative Research program. The program, which began earlier this year and offered $504,882 in funding to 11 research concepts, has […]
First project funded through $65 million John Hopkins, investment firm partnership – Baltimore Business Journal
A Johns Hopkins cancer biology researcher has received the first investment from the newly created Bluefield Innovations fund. Bluefield Innovations is a collaboration between Johns Hopkins University and New York investment firm Deerfield Management. The $65 million funding effort is aimed at helping to commercialize early-stage therapeutic research coming out of Hopkins. Deerfield is providing the initial funding over five years. […]
[COA Member] University of Delaware Horn Program seeing entrepreneurial success
The University of Delaware’s Horn Program in Entrepreneurship has a booklet titled “Success Stories.” Inside, there are pictures and biographical information of the people and the businesses that have been nurtured in the program over its five years in existence empowering UD students to develop the mindset and skill set of an entrepreneur. Success, though, […]
Millersville students will invest $200K out of university’s endowment with new Marauder Fund
It’s one thing for a university to trust its students to excel and represent their alma mater well. It’s quite another to trust students with its own money. By establishing its first student-managed investment portfolio, that’s exactly what Millersville University has done. Known as the Marauder Fund, students of the newly formed Millersville Student Investment […]
Innovation Fund invests $575,000 in biotech companies @ U Chicago Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
The University of Chicago Innovation Fund announced plans to invest up to $575,000 into three biotechnology companies—ImmunArtes, Onchilles Pharma, and Oxalo Therapeutics. These latest investments bring the Innovation Fund’s total investment amount to over $6 million in 56 projects. On Friday, December 1, four finalists presented their proposals to the Innovation Fund advisory committee, which […]