Lorrain Community College Innovation Fund Announces $150K In Six Start-ups
The Innovation Fund, Northeast Ohio’s most active pre-seed fund for technology startups, has awarded $25,000 grants to six young companies. The funding will be used to help the companies validate their technology ideas through the imagining and incubating stages and into demonstrating. “The grants we’ve awarded are so critical to the initial growth of these startups,” […]
University of Colorado Student Fund Puts $30K Into Manufacturing Connection Online Plaform
Elihuu, a startup company whose slogan is “meet your manufacturer,” has met an investor – a group of University of Colorado-Boulder graduate students. The students last week put $30,000 into Elihuu, an online software platform that connects product designers with manufacturers who can make their wares.
University of Alaska’s UAA Innovate Awards Support Creative Projects Up To $200K
Taking products like Yang’s to market is Helena Wisniewski’s mission. She is vice provost for research and graduate studies at UAA. Two years ago, when she arrived from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J., she quickly launched the UAA Innovate awards, an annual pot of $200,000 in seed money for research, creative works and […]
Accelerate Start-up Challenge Provides Platform For Bostonian Students To Pitch Ideas For $$
A semester’s worth of brainstorming, planning, strategizing, and designing came down to Pitchfest, where interdisciplinary teams participating in the Accelerate Startup Challenge pitched their projects to a group of alumni, mentors, and representatives of Boston’s innovation ecosystem. The event took place the evening of November 14 in Accelerate, Wentworth Innovation + Entrepreneurship Center. Alpha Industries (Josh […]
University of Pennsylvania Unleashes New $2.1M Hybrid Incubator/Seed Fund
With funding from an array of venture capitalists and investors, four education startups are getting support from the Education Design Studio Inc. (EDSi), a new hybrid incubator and seed fund established by the University of Pennsylvania’sGraduate School of Education.
Entrepreneur Alumni Give Back Through UCLA Venture Capital Fund
Think of the California university most closely tied to entrepreneurship and Stanford immediately leaps to mind, or maybe the University of California at Berkeley. Michael Silton is looking to add UCLA to that list, and he’s come up with a unique way of funding that effort.
UIC Announces $400K In Awards From Chancellors Fund
The UIC Chancellor’s Innovation Fund (CIF) was established by the UIC Office of the Chancellor to enhance the Proof of Concept (POC) Awards Program’s capability to bridge the gap between basic research and commercialization. The CIF is a $10 million hybrid proof-of-concept and equity investment fund to be disbursed over five years. One million dollars […]
Florida State University Releases GAP Grant Recipients
Some of the state’s most innovative scientists were honored Nov. 13 for their work in addressing important societal needs such as faster wound healing for diabetics, more accurate test kits for food contaminants, a safer attention deficit hyperactivity disorder medication, a first-of-its-kind solution for concussions, and a more personal approach to diagnosing and treating Hepatitis […]
University of Akron Student-run Venture Fund Invests In Ohio Start-ups
Student Venture Fund at The University of Akron (SVFUA) is a student-run nonprofit Evergreen fund that provides experiential learning to Akron-area graduate students and pre-seed validation to high potential start-ups that benefit the Northeast Ohio region. Our goal is to create synergistic links between the university, business communities and entrepreneurs to spur education, entrepreneurship and economic […]
University of Waterloo VeloCity announces finalists for $100K student start-up award
VeloCity, the University of Waterloo-based campus for entrepreneurially-minded students, has announced that its $100,000 VeloCity Fund Finals will happen on November 28. Ten startups from the University of Waterloo will compete for their share of over $100K in grant funding. Over the month of November, several competitions will decipher which ten startups will get that […]