PwC Malta’s €1m Start-up Fund attracts 87 applications
PwC Malta has received 87 applications so far for its €1 million Start-up Fund launched in mid-June 2013. This is an initiative whereby PwC Malta assists start-ups with innovative business ideas, by providing pro-bono advisory services. The fund is supported by Times of Malta. Applications are reviewed by a selection committee that meets on a […]
$2.9M in WA Life Sciences Discovery Fund (LSDF) grants announced
Celiac disease-safe wheat, premature infant pain detection, and new medicines to fight flu and cancer are among the ideas to receive $2.9 million in funding from Washington’s Life Sciences Discovery Fund (LSDF). The 10 new commercialization awards are part of LSDF’s $100 million portfolio, which features an impressive 7-to-1 ROI statewide—including $510 million in new […]
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 […]
Gap Funding of University Technology and Start-ups
Gap funding, or funding for time periods during a capital shortage for new technological businesses, is often provided by research universities partnering with investors, corporations, or even the government. Occasionally, these universities independently provide funds to new technological businesses in order to advance development. There are three main stages at which gap funding may be […]
Catawba’s student-managed investment fund dives into Wall Street | Salisbury Post
After reading “The Best Book on Investment Banking Careers,” Jevgenij Gamper (Class of 2016), realized his career goals made it absolutely necessary that he stand out in his academic pursuits. As a student-athlete, this Lithuanian national who is double majoring in mathematics and economics & finance at Catawba College, decided he needed a working laboratory for […]
Seed investment for Thai tech start-ups via new 500 TukTuks fund – The Nation
Natavudh Pungcharoenpong, the founder of successful tech start-up Ookbee, is one of the investors in 500 TukTuks – and one of its two fund managers.He said 500 TukTuks consisted of investments from 500 Startups and a group of Thai investors in the ratio of 10:90, while being run and operated by Krating Poonpol and himself.The […]
Venture Capitalists Enlist Student-Run Funds to Find the Next Facebook – WSJ
On a late Friday afternoon earlier this month, a dozen students crowded around a table in an office overlooking New York City’s Madison Square Park. Their mission: deciding whether to invest a chunk of a $3 million fund into a student-led startup. The 20-something investors were carefully selected from East Coast universities such as Princeton, […]
How discovery science is reinventing the world
“Without discovery research, without innovation, applied research can only go so far,” says MIT Institute Professor Phillip Sharp. “There are strikingly important things we just don’t know exist, but discovering them through basic science changes the whole world.” That’s precisely what happened to Sharp. He came to MIT in 1974 to join the Center for […]
Aalto’s first ERC Proof of Concept grant to DRAM technology
Memory technologies that are used in computers, smart phones, tablets, etc. can be coarsely divided into two classes: fast but volatile DRAMs (dynamic random access memory) and non-volatile flash memories. Racetrack memory based on the controlled motion of magnetic domain walls is a promising new technology for next generation memories, because it combines the speed […]
Wichita State to host $2.5 billion technology seed fund event April 30
Area innovators, entrepreneurs, researchers and small technology firms are invited to take advantage of a special opportunity as Wichita State University hosts the SBIR Road Tour from 7:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Thursday, April 30, on the second floor of the Rhatigan Student Center. The SBIR Road Tour event represents America’s largest seed fund, and is a […]