New York State invests $50M in Innovation Venture Capital Fund
Program Purpose The New York State Innovation Venture Capital (NYSIVC) Fund is a seed stage and early stage venture capital fund with up to $50 million to support and attract new high-growth businesses. The NYSIVC Fund will provide critical funding to promote the commercialization of new technologies, incentivize economic growth and encourage job creation across […]
Stony Brook Announces Four Finalists for Inaugural Discovery Fund Award
Sometimes you just have to do it yourself. That’s what theStony Brook Foundation did in establishing The Discovery Fund, which supports pioneering scientific breakthroughs with philanthropic giving in response to declining federal grants for basic research. Now, the finalists for the inaugural Discovery Fund Award have been selected and will compete for up to $200,000; the recipient(s) […]
Alumnus creates investment fund that targets startups from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Jeff Stewart, an entrepreneur who has founded several technology companies, is starting a fund to grow early-stage businesses developed by faculty, alumni and students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Stewart, currently the chief executive office and co-founder of Lenddo, a New York City technology company, is an alumnus of Rensselaer, a private […]
Partnerships with ASU bring startup acceleration program to New York | ASU News
Thanks to new partnerships between Arizona State University’s Furnace Technology Transfer Accelerator and community development partners in New York, entrepreneurs in upstate New York will have the opportunity to commercialize technologies developed by the Air Force Research Lab – Information Directorate based in Rome, New York. “Arizona State University is proud to bring this startup […]
Governor Cuomo Announces $900,000 to Fund Biomedical Research Projects at Nine SUNY Campuses
Albany, NY – July 8, 2014 – Governor Andrew M. Cuomotoday announced $900,000 in funding for projects supported by the State University of New York Health Network of Excellence. This first round of funding will be awarded to six projects engaging students and faculty on nine SUNY campuses and their partners in the private sector to research causes, treatments […]
Cornell University Academic Venture Fund Awards $1.4M to 12 Bioenergy/Ag Projects
Cornell University’s David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future has awarded $1.4 million from its Academic Venture Fund to 12 new university projects, including several related to biomass and bioenergy production.
Five Long Island Biotech/Clean-Energy Start-ups Get $500K
The outlook is a little greener for five biotech and clean-energy startup companies thanks to half a million dollars in seed money from Accelerate Long Island and the Long Island Emerging Technologies Fund. Goddard Labs, Green Sulfcrete, PolyNova, SynchroPET and Traverse Biosciences each received a $50,000 grant from Accelerate Long Island’s Seed Fund and a […]
SUNY TAF fund invests in five new medical projects, $1M to-date
The State University of New York (SUNY) Technology Accelerator Fund (TAF) will invest in five new projects, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced. They include a device that a doctor at Upstate Medical University is developing, according to a news release from the governor’s office. The TAF accelerates the development and commercialization of innovations that SUNY students, faculty, […]
Innovate NY Fund supports $1.4M investment in Intrinsiq Materials
The Cayuga Venture Fund of Ithaca is the lead investor in a $4.1 million funding round for Intrinsiq Materials, a Rochester-area start-up developing conductive inks for the printed electronics industry, Intrinsiq announced Monday.
U Rochester student-VC fund makes first investment
The Simon School Venture Capital Fund, a student-run effort of the University of Rochester’s Simon Graduate School of BusinessAdministration, has made its first investment, in Palmyra’s StormBlok Systems Inc.