Northeastern’s IDEA student-run gap fund surpasses half a $1M in investment to-date
IDEA was founded in 2009 and since then has funded 35 ventures with grants up to $10,000. Just this past month, the Accelerator reached its 500k milestone in venture funding, a monumental milestone for IDEA.
Tufts Venture Fund will supply seed money to student startups
Are we approaching the point where Boston will have more venture capitalists living in dorm rooms than in Wellesley? Maybe not yet. But another student-run investing group is about to start putting money into campus startups, this time at Tufts University. The Tufts Venture Fund, formed last year by students including Eric Peckham and Alexandra Halbeck, has been out raising […]
Accelerate Start-up Challenge Provides Platform For Bostonian Students To Pitch Ideas For $$
A semester’s worth of brainstorming, planning, strategizing, and designing came down to Pitchfest, where interdisciplinary teams participating in the Accelerate Startup Challenge pitched their projects to a group of alumni, mentors, and representatives of Boston’s innovation ecosystem. The event took place the evening of November 14 in Accelerate, Wentworth Innovation + Entrepreneurship Center. Alpha Industries (Josh […]
IDEA funds $34K in student ventures in September
The school year has just begun at Northeastern, but IDEA ventures are already hard at work– and it’s paying off. For its September round of Gap Funding, IDEA has awarded a total of $34,000 to four of its ventures: Bureo, Gapelia, Fresh Truck and Presskit.to.
Harvard opens office space for a venture capitalist
With preppy good looks and a casual confidence, Hugo Van Vuuren moves effortlessly among the student body at Harvard University, holding court with undergrads in the Yard or in a Harvard Square coffee shop. But Van Vuuren, 29, is not a student, or a faculty member. He is a venture capitalist with campus office hours.
Allied Minds raised $100M to expand investment in universities and federal labs
The private investment firm has significantly expanded its asset base since its founding in 2006, bolstered by investor confidence in its unique, and efficient, model for forming, funding and building new companies based on early-stage technologies in the life-sciences and technology sectors. Allied Minds, Inc., the biggest investor in technologies developed at renowned U.S. university […]
One Year In, Harvard XFund Backs Three Start-ups, Ratchets Up Student Entrepreneurship
When a group of Harvard alumni formed the Experiment Fund (Xfund) a little over a year ago, they were hoping that their seed fund would nourish a burgeoning entrepreneurial culture on campus—and beyond—and make a profit as well. New companies are spawned in garages, basements, and at kitchen tables everywhere. But the most productive environments for incubating […]
Forbes Covers Northeastern University IDEA Grants
In the age of startup-mania, accelerators, incubators and the constant search for venture capital,Northeastern Universityis taking a proactive approach to getting would-be founders to an entrepreneurial happy-place. IDEA calls itself a “venture accelerator,” The three-year-old program within the university was founded by students who – after coming face to face with the harsh realities of […]
Boston University Gap Funding Programs Back $250K In Translational Research
Some people think that commercialization – technology transfer – is something only engineers do. But a number of CAS professors have recently received funding from the BU Office of Technology Development (OTD) for important work they are doing.
U Massachusetts announces $200K in new clean energy technology grants
BOSTON – February 7, 2013 –The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) and the Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center (MTTC) today announced $200,000 in new grants to Massachusetts entrepreneurs as part of their commitment to NECEC Institute’s Cleantech Innovations New England program. These grants are issued through the MassCEC Catalyst Program, which funds the commercialization of new […]