Tech Launch Arizona Looks to Build on Initial Success | UANews
Tech Launch Arizona was established early last year to ensure that good ideas developed by University of Arizona researchers do not live and die in laboratories or grow dusty on bookshelves but enter the market for public benefit. In its first full fiscal year of operations, TLA executed 39 exclusive licenses and options for 72 […]
University Of Maryland, Baltimore Invests $100,000 To Complete Harpoon Medical’s $3.6M Series A Financing
University of Maryland (UM) Ventures and Harpoon Medical, Inc. announced today that the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) has invested $100,000 in Harpoon Medical. This is the first equity investment UM Ventures has made in a company and completes Harpoon Medical’s $3.6M Series A financing. The investment also coincides with the U.S. PTO’s decision to […]
Houston venture capital firm opens Ann Arbor office headed by U Michigan Graduate
University of Michigan graduate and serial entrepreneur Adrian Fortinio will lead a new office for the Houston-based Mercury Fund–a venture capital firm–according to a report in Crain’s Detroit Business. Fortino co-founded FlockTag and was a vice president at Invest Detroit before being tapped to lead Mercury’s new Ann Arbor office. The firm, which raised more […]
Cornell University’s Binoptics sold to Massachusetts company for $230M
Ithaca laser-technology company Binoptics is being bought by M/A-Com Technology Solutions of Lowell, Mass., for $230 million in cash, the company announced Wednesday. Binoptics, in business since 2000 using technology developed at Cornell University, develops and makes semicondutor microchip lasers for equipment in the data and telecommunications industries that use light energy rather than electricity. […]
Ottawa, Quebec pitch in on $279M innovation fund
Finance Minister Joe Oliver was in Montreal to announce appropriation from supervision for a new try collateral fund. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press) The sovereign supervision and Quebec’s provincial supervision have affianced to representation in $1 for any $2 lifted by a private zone to uphold an investment account that’s ostensible to aim innovative companies in […]
UTexas-San Antonio honors eight researchers at second annual Innovation Awards
UTSA President Ricardo Romo, Vice President for Research Mauli Agrawal and the UTSA Office of Commercialization and Innovation recognized eight UTSA faculty members yesterday at the university’s second annual Innovation Awards luncheon. The UTSA Innovation Awards program recognizes UTSA researchers who have contributed to the university’s entrepreneurial ecosystem by securing patents and/or commercial licenses to protect, develop and […]
NC State’s Chancellors Innovation Fund Has Backed 23 Projects, Secured $4.2M in Follow-on Funding
In four years, 23 projects have earned funding from the CIF. The $1.3 million invested in them has generated $4.2 million in follow-on funding and $460,000 in licensing revenue for the university, as well as launching six startup companies. Each year, roughly 75 faculty members file CIF proposals. After initial screening, finalists pitch their technology development […]
Ottawa, Quebec pitch in on $279M innovation fund – Business – CBC News
The federal government and Quebec’s provincial government have pledged to pitch in $1 for every $2 raised by the private sector to backstop an investment fund that’s supposed to target innovative companies in the province. Finance Minister Joe Oliver was in Montreal on Monday alongside his provincial counterpart Carlos Leitao to announce the government support […]
North Dakota investor Dakota Venture Group backs marketing-tech startup Buzz360
Eagan startup Buzz360 has closed on $385,000 in financing with backing from North Dakota investors, including a student-run venture fund. The marketing-technology company will put the capital toward ramping up sales and marketing of its software. Dakota Venture Group, a Grand Forks-based fund run by University of North Dakota students, led the equity component of […]
A New Fund Is Giving BC Startups A Competitive Edge
At least for the moment, Kevin Cook was in the hot seat. Just over 10 years ago, Cook, BC ’04, was near the front of a room in Fulton Hall as a cluster of budding MBA candidates critiqued his every move throughout his presentation. The criticism and feedback were a daily occurrence in Wally Coyle’s […]