TMCx Medical Device Companies Pitch at Expert Forum
The TMC Innovation Institute hosted a successful Expert Forum last week featuring its 19 medical device cohort startups. The TMC Expert Forum, where the companies pitch innovations to a room full of potential advisors, mentors and key opinion leaders, closed out a three-week “boot camp” that the companies participated in at the beginning of the […]
SD Venture Summit highlights university-developed tech to spawn start-ups
If San Diego’s Grolltex is correct, bendable display screens for smartphones, tablets and other gadgets aren’t the stuff of science fiction. They’re just around the corner. The two-year-old start-up has licensed technology developed at UC San Diego to mass produce graphene — a strong, conductive material that is Now used mostly by research labs – including contractors […]
Ohio taxpayers being asked to support the future of the state’s venture capital fund
A venture-capital fund created by the state to nurture startups now needs a hand from Ohio taxpayers. For the first time since its creation in 2003, the Ohio Capital Fund isn’t making enough money from its investments to cover payments on the money it has borrowed to finance its investments in startups. The fund, managed […]
Wisconsin startup funding up 60% in 2016 | BizTimes Media Milwaukee
Eighty-four Wisconsin startups received $281.7 million in funding in 2016, up 60 percent from $177 million in 2015, according to the latest INvest Quarterly report from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. The report tracks only companies the state has designated as Qualified New Business Ventures, which is open to high-tech, early-stage Wisconsin companies developing innovative […]
University of Alaska professor gets $75,000 investment for startup
An incontrovertible fact of Alaska life means black ice can spin cars out of control and winter snow dumps take up precious asphalt space meant for cars. At least, that’s the accepted normal. A new invention market-tested by University of Alaska Anchorage professor Joey Yang shows promise for help. Called Tundra Tape, it’s a technology […]
Vanderbilt Wond’ry lands $500K I-Corps site grant, ramps up efforts to launch start-ups
The Wond’ry, in collaboration with the Vanderbilt Institute in Surgery and Engineering, recently won a five-year, $500,000 National Science Foundation grant to become an Innovation Corps site. The designation marks Vanderbilt as one of the premier academic institutions nationwide that nurture entrepreneurship. The I-Corps site grant will support programs to match students and faculty with teams of […]
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Research Foundation announces new Catalyst Grants
Five new research projects at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee have received grant seed-funding from the UWM Research Foundation for projects that range from new materials for removal of arsenic from groundwater to a strategy for improving batteries for electric cars. The Catalyst Grant Program invests in promising early-stage research at UWM in areas where the […]
UChicago Startup Investment Program makes first investment of $500K in surgical startup
The University of Chicago has made its first venture investment from the UChicago Startup Investment Program. ExplORer Surgical, which is based on technology developed at the University of Chicago Medical Center, provides an interactive surgical playbook that promotes optimal teamwork in the operating room. It will receive an investment of $500,000 from the University as part of […]
Ontario government creates $25.8M cleantech innovation fund
Provincial officials announced August 29 that the Ontario government is starting a fund to support the creation and commercialization of green technologies. The Low Carbon Innovation Fund will support technologies in areas such as alternative energy generation and conservation, new biofuels or bioproducts, transportation, and carbon capture and usage. Ontario says that this initiative is […]
University of Nevada InNEVenture Fund enters second year of ramping up ideas and technologies for commercialization
Have an idea or new technology that could move forward with early-stage funding? If so, keep an eye on Friday, Sept. 15, 2017, the application deadline for the InNEVenture Fund. This proof-of-concept funding source is available to help University of Nevada, Reno faculty, students, staff and recent graduates determine if their technologies and business ideas have […]