Wake Forest Innovation’s Catalyst Fund to support 6 early-stage technologies
Six early-stage technologies, all invented at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Centerand being developed through Wake Forest Innovations, will receive a combined $595,000 investment to support their initial development. The funding was announced Wednesday by Pappas Capital and Wake Forest Innovations, the money coming through the Catalyst Fund, a $15 million technology development program established by […]
Think Tank to Shark Tank: Universities and the Entrepreneur Economy
Since the recession in 2008, the American labor market has shifted significantly. The era of the lifelong career is all but over as the gig economy takes hold. What’s more, entrepreneurialism is becoming an increasingly popular pathway to success. Shark Tank has brought entrepreneurialism to the mainstream, and institutions that invest in the incubator model […]
University of Akron unveils $500K Spark Fund program to fund student, faculty innovations
The University of Akron Research Foundation is unveiling a new program called the Spark Fund to help develop new innovations and technologies among graduate students and faculty.The program, which aims to foster innovations leading to university start-ups, will pay to prototype and test five to seven innovations in 2017, thanks to matching funding from the Ohio […]
Fred Hutch’s new Evergreen Fund to promote commercialization of research into lifesaving therapies
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center announced its first-ever grants from its newly established Evergreen Fund to spur researchers’ efforts to advance bold ideas toward creating or partnering with a commercial entity. A total of $1 million was awarded to eight Fred Hutch research projects ranging from the development of new immunotherapies for cancer to finding […]
Israeli VC Pitango launches its 7th early-stage fund of $175M | TechCrunch
Pitango Venture Capital, one of the most active VCs in the Israeli startup scene, has announced its seventh fund, Pitango Venture Capital 7. The fund will have $175 million under management, and invest from seed upwards. The new fund focuses on IT and life science investments, specializing in enterprise infrastructure, IoT, artificial intelligence and digital […]
University of South Florida seeks to build $10M startup fund
The University of South Florida has received a federal grant to create an early-stage seed fund aimed at helping retain Tampa area businesses. Seed Tampa Bay, from USF’s Innovation Enterprise and funded by a $250,000 U.S. Economic Development Administration grant, will invest in tech-oriented startup firms with high growth potential. By 2019, USF hopes to […]
Michigan State University Venture Fund Startup Develops Smart Headband To Detect Head Impacts
The Michigan State University Foundation (MSUF) has announced its newest program, Red Cedar Ventures, which features a pre-seed fund and opportunity focused on helping Michigan State University-based startup companies. “We have been working hard to put together a campus-wide ecosystem for entrepreneurs that embraces all of the creative talents across the university,” MSU President Lou […]
Forbes: Allied Minds leading in IP commercialization in the US
New technologies and intellectual properties are being created all over the US, but many times the capabilities to commercialize it are unavailable. Boston-based Allied Minds is a diversified holding company focused on venture creation that transforms previously unknown or filed away technology and life science innovations. Out of the research of more than 160 US […]
(Venture Capitalists Take Note) University Startup Funds Are For Real
The common auto-pilot statement (I’ve been guilty of it–often–as well) is that universities need more money from pre-seed venture capital to launch successful startups. After a click-whirr pause caused by our recent startup gap fund webinar(sample here), I’m not so sure. Let’s start with a simple question, “What are 5 key needs areas for success […]
Two entrepreneur alumni donate $1 million each to UBC seed fund
Greg Peet, a technology entrepreneur who attended UBC’s Sauder School of Business, and Glenn Walsh, who founded the mining construction company Tercon Group and is an alumnus of the faculty of applied science, donated the money to a seed fund run by entrepreneurship@UBC. The fund, known as e@UBC, “provides startup programs, industry mentorship, office and […]