Louisiana Tech TOP DOG New Venture Championship winners announced
A total of $12,500 in cash and prizes were awarded recently to the most innovative, student-developed product and service ideas at the 2017 TOP DOG New Venture Championship at Louisiana Tech University. Awards were presented to the top three finishers in the competition with the “Lunch Pad” team of Jon Emas (supply chain), Nathaniel Foster […]
Inova Health System, University of Virginia fund first joint research projects with seed fund
Inova Health System and University of Virginia are kicking off their new partnership with $450,000 in seed money to fund nine joint research projects geared toward better predicting, preventing and treating disease. The seed fund helps launch a larger $112 million partnership that Falls Church-based Inova Health System announced six months ago with the Charlottesville […]
Harvard Innovation Lab awards $310,000 in prizes
The Harvard Innovation Lab, a university-wide initiative that fosters student entrepreneurship, awarded $310,000 in prize money Tuesday night to winners of the sixth annual President’s Innovation Challenge, an interdisciplinary competition for students to develop solutions to pressing problems within the health and life sciences industry. According to Jodi Goldstein, managing director of Harvard Innovation Labs, […]
New Brunswick announces $63.6 million in funding for two innovation agencies, funds
ew Brunswick’s provincial government announced that it is making significant investments into two innovation agencies and contributing money to the Innovation Voucher Fund, according to a report from Entrevestor. In the first of the two announcements, New Brunswick’s government said it is investing $63.6 million in the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF) and the New […]
Simon Fraser University receives $1 million from Coast Capital Savings for student program
Simon Fraser University has received a $1 million gift from Coast Capital Savings to help fund Western Canada’s first university business “student incubator” over the next five years. Don Coulter, president and CEO of the 1,650-employee Surrey-based credit union, said he was extremely proud” to announce to fund the SFU Venture Connection over the next […]
Company with University of Kansas roots goes public on NASDAQ
Cory Berkland might not be the first person you’d guess would help to create what has become a multimillion-dollar company. The distinguished professor, appointed in the departments of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Chemical & Petroleum Engineering at the University of Kansas, grew up on a pig farm in Iowa, studied chemical engineering at the undergraduate and […]
University of Arizona Startups Draw Silicon Valley Attention to Tucson
On May 3, four startups founded on inventions based on University of Arizona research made their pitches at an accelerator in one of the nation’s epicenters for technology and entrepreneurship: Silicon Valley. The audience consisted not only of a live crowd at the TechCode offices; the pitches were live-streamed to TechCode network locations around the […]
New Mexico Arrowhead Innovation Fund receives investment from state’s Catalyst Fund
The Arrowhead Innovation Fund at New Mexico State University’s Arrowhead Center is one of three organizations to receive investment from the state’s Catalyst Fund, a $20 million “fund of funds” to support New Mexico companies, Gov. Susana Martinez announced Tuesday in Albuquerque. The Catalyst Fund is expected to support more than 50 companies in New […]
University of Texas Dallas Seed Fund Makes First Startup Investments
The evergreen fund launched earlier this year within the university’s Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship is designed to provide capital to startups progressed beyond an idea and needing to scale. Businesses originated by UTD students, alumni, faculty, staff, or others associated with the university are eligible to apply. Bryan Chambers, director of the fund and UTD’s Blackstone LaunchPad […]
University of New Hampshire creates innovation fund
The University of New Hampshire’s Peter T. Paul Entrepreneurship Center has established the J. Dolores and Alfred P. Maurice Prize for Innovation Fund, UNH announced Wednesday. Alfred P. Maurice donated $150,000 to create an endowed gift to benefit undergraduate student innovation. “This prize will help the ECenter continue to build the growing innovation culture on […]