University of Massachusetts announces $215,000 in Tech Development Awards
President Marty Meehan today announced $215,000 in funding for a program that over the past 13 years has seen UMass invest $2,355,000 in faculty R&D projects, leading to $15 million in follow-on investment, generating numerous commercial licenses and patents and resulting in startup companies locating in Massachusetts. “With these awards, we are investing in today […]
MIT-Imperial College London Seed Fund winners announced
The MIT-Imperial College London Seed Fund awarded $60,565 to three MIT faculty pursuing joint projects with peers at Imperial College London. The grant primarily supports travel costs for exchange between teams at MIT and Imperial College London with priority given to projects that are new or entering a new phase; that reflect a balanced collaboration […]
Dakota Students : Investing in the future
The Dakota Venture Group is a student-run venture capital investment fund based out of UND’s Center for Innovation. DVG invests in high-growth companies started by entrepreneurs. What makes DVG unique is that, unlike other “student-run” funds, every decision is made by students. In other groups, students do the legwork and present their findings to a […]
WSU Ventures at Wichita State University helps fund partnership between NIAR and Denver start-up Molon Labe Designs –
WSU Ventures is helping fund an expanded partnership between Denver-based Molon Labe Designs ant the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University. The university said in a press release Thursday that WSU Ventures — the university’s technology transfer organization — helped Molon enter into an agreement with WSU Investment Corp. and, in exchange […]
Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures to launch health accelerator, fund
The arm of Johns Hopkins University that seeks to turn new technology into thriving businesses plans to launch a healthcare-focused accelerator, possibly within the next nine months. Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures has launched several efforts to push out new products and services developed by Hopkins faculty and students in recent years, but this venture aims […]
TechAccel invests $400K in UC Davis research fund
A Kansas-based private capital company announced Thursday it is investing up to $400,000 in a University of California Davis program that develops campus research into commercial uses. TechAccel LLC is collaborating with Davis researchers in the fields of animal health, agriculture, food and nutrition. The investment firm, based in Shawnee Mission, Kan., and founded in […]
Five teams named finalists in Chicago Innovation Exchange’s funding competition
The Chicago Innovation Exchange has announced the five finalists in its Innovation Fund’s spring cycle. Twice per year, the fund takes applications, hears pitches and decides to invest in emerging technologies and startups out of the University of Chicago and its affiliates—Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. The fund so far has invested […]
Wichita State University Ventures accelerator program results in the addition of 15 jobs
Last year’s Innovation Accelerator competition, held by Wichita State’s WSU Ventures and funded through the Kansas Department of Commerce, has resulted in the addition of 15 jobs. In early 2015, seven technology-based companies were awarded with $109,600 in funding through the Competitive Innovation Accelerator Shock Tank competition. The competition sought innovation with commercial applications and […]
$35M Ohio University, Ohio State University Venture Fund Launches
Ohio University and the Ohio State University want their graduates to have the option to stay in the state to seek jobs in emerging technology when they graduate. The Ohio Innovation Fund was created in 2012 to accomplish that goal, but the fund has just gotten off the ground this year with a newly hired fund manager. “A lot […]
Venture capitalism 101: U Akron and Kent State U lets university students learn ins, outs of investing
Students at the University of Akron and Kent State University are learning more about business from their extracurricular activities than they might in any MBA school. That’s because they – along with students from Walsh University, Notre Dame College, Case Western Reserve University and the College of Wooster – are spending much of their spare […]