ENTREVESTOR: Nova Scotia tops up innovation funding
Nova Scotia’s life sciences sector is one of the big winners of the announcement last week that Innovacorp has received fresh capital for its venture capital funding. The province announced it will provide $40 million over the next eight years to the Nova Scotia First Fund, the main investment vehicle for the provincial innovation agency. […]
Dakota Venture Group celebrates 10 years
UND’s student group, the Dakota Venture Group recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. The group, which was first established in 2006 as a student-controlled educational investment opportunity, currently manages more than $1.8 million, according to a news release. “Over the years, the Dakota Venture Group has shown what UND students are capable of learning and accomplishing,” […]
CWRU receives $500,000 state grant for technology start-up fund
The Ohio Third Frontier Commission has awarded Case Western Reserve University a $500,000 grant for a campus-based translational research fund to help faculty researchers advance and commercialize their innovations. The grant will transfer the administration of the commission’s statewide Technology Validation and Start-up Fund (TVSF) to Case Western Reserve, managed through the university’s Technology Transfer […]
UWaterloo’s Velocity Garage achieves largest free startup incubator status
The University of Waterloo celebrated the official opening of the expanded Velocity Garage, making UWaterloo home to the largest free startup incubator in the world. Now occupying 37,000-square-feet, the Velocity Garage offers workspace for up to 120 startups to work and collaborate, as well as business mentorship, equipment and a vibrant startup community. The expanded […]
MIT starts $25M venture fund
[fusion_text]The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has spawned a dazzling array of innovations in its 155-year history, from disposable razors to wind tunnels to radar. Now, the university wants to open up its checkbook to turn the next generation of big ideas into businesses. On Wednesday, the school said it was raising $150 million for a […]
Launch of Alberta Transplant Innovation Fund to Accelerate Transplant Research and Innovation
The University Hospital Foundation, Alberta Economic Development and Trade and Astellas Pharma Canada, Inc. (Astellas) today announced a new research and innovation partnership that will have a direct and tangible impact on some of the most vulnerable Albertans – those waiting for organ transplantation. The three organizations have partnered to establish the $1.2 million dollars […]
Venture Grants Fund Growth and Exploration for Colorado College Students
Keller Venture Grants, made possible by the Keller Family Foundation, allow hundreds of Colorado College students to create and implement their own research projects by providing students up to $1,000. Last year, the program provided nearly $150,000 in student research funds and saw 146 CC students pursue their own individual research projects on campus, across […]
University Hospitals receives $500,000 grant from Third Frontier for tech ventures
The Ohio Third Frontier Commission on Thursday awarded University Hospitals a $500,000 grant to help speed up the development of promising biomedical technologies. UH will match the grant from the Ohio Third Frontier Technology Validation and Start-up Fund to bolster the hospital system’s technology venture fund, and expects to be able to fund eight to […]
New Mexico state pumps $40M into venture investments from tax fund
The New Mexico State Investment Council unanimously approved another $40 million from the Severance Tax Permanent Fund Tuesday for venture investments in local startup companies. The money will help replenish the SIC’s Co-Investment Fund, which makes direct investments in startups in partnership with venture capital firms. The new money raises SIC cash commitments to the […]
Alumnus seeds Swartz Center thats poised to draw innovation at CMU and in Pittsburgh
Carnegie Mellon University’s “hub for entrepreneurship,” the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship, got its official start Tuesday in the best possible way — surrounded by CMU innovators hoping to take their companies to the next level. James Swartz, the co-founding partner of Accel Partners, a venture capital firm that has helped fund some of the country’s […]