University of Minnesota launches $20M seed capital program, drops plans for VC fund
The University of Minnesota has abandoned plans for a $20 million venture capital fund and will instead launch a seed-capital program for university-born startups.
Kickstart Seed Fund Launches $500,000 Student-Run Venture Fund
Kickstart Seed Fund is launching a $500,000 student-run venture fund aptly named the Campus Founders Fund.
Madison-start up lands $4.2m in venture funding
Silatronix Inc., a Madison start-up that is aiming to make lightweight lithium ion batteries much more efficient and safe, has raised $2.8 million, according to a filing the company made with federal securities regulators.
The University of Copenhagen has allocated five million kroner annually to a Proof-of-Concept (PoC)
The University of Copenhagen has allocated five million kroner annually to a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) –pool. The PoC funds are earmarked the commercial development of promising projects by researchers from the University of Copenhagen, who wish to explore the opportunities for commercializing a scientific discovery. The funds cannot be used for research. via Proof-of-Concept funds – […]
Cape Town launches new seed fund
As part of the official opening of the new CCDI space, a new Design Innovation Seed Fund (DISF) was launched as part of the proceedings. The DISF is supported with seed funding from the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) and the Department of Economic Development and Tourism (DEDT). The new fund is set to give innovation […]
Stanford, StartX Fund awardee, grabs $2m seed round
Nirmidas Biotech, Inc., a diagnostic research technology company, is announcing that it has raised $2 million in seed round funding to commercialize its fluorescence enhancing plasmonic gold technology, called “pGOLD.” The technology platform, which significantly boosts the ability to detect disease biomarkers, is based on nearly a decade of research at Stanford University and is […]
UT Horizon Fund invests $593K in MolecularMatch in Series A financing round
AUSTIN, TX – UT Horizon Fund, the strategic venture fund of the University of Texas System, has made a $593,000 Series A preferred stock investment in MolecularMatch.
New commercialization gap funding assists WSU innovators
Washington State University researchers can get in-house money to move their innovations from the lab to the marketplace through a new commercialization gap-funding (CGF) program.
With Innovation Fund dollars, new medical ‘GPS’ sets course to personalize patient care
University of Chicago physicians Mark Ratain and Peter O’Donnell created the Genomic Prescribing System based on a simple hypothesis—that patients and healthcare providers would be eager to incorporate genetic information into decisions about prescribing medical treatments if they had the tools to do so. So, they set out to develop a new model for personalized […]
Delaware Early Stage Venture Fund to Invest $50K-250K in Regional Start-ups
Leading Edge Ventures I, L.P., announced today the formation of an early stage venture fund. Headquartered in Newark, Delaware, the Fund will make investments in promising early stage companies in Delaware and the Mid- Atlantic region. It will also maintain an office in Bethlehem, PA. Leading Edge Ventures will target companies that provide productivity benefits […]