U of Chicago ExplORer Surgical Announces $1M Seed Round
ExplORer Surgical, a leading developer of an intraoperative workflow management tool for surgery, announced today the closing of $1 million in seed round funding. Investors include CJM Ventures, M25 Group, SymphonyAlpha Ventures, The University of Chicago Innovation Fund, Wasson Enterprise, as well as prominent healthcare and technology angel investors. ExplORer prevents delays & disruptions that […]
Michigan Economic Development Corporation to provide more money for entrepreneurship, innovation
The Small Business Development Center, Invest Detroit, Automation Alley and TechTownare some of the beneficiaries of a budget increase for support of entrepreneurship and innovation by the Michigan Economic Development Corp. for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1. According to Emily Guerrant, MEDC vice president of marketing, the budget for entrepreneurship and innovation has […]
University of California Is Putting Money Into an Alumni VC Fund
The University of California is giving its student entrepreneurs a big endorsement. During a scheduled public meeting of its regents’ finance committee on Friday, the school revealed that it has invested into the House Fund, a young $6 million fund. The fund, established by UC Berkeley alumnus Jeremy Fiance, focuses on very early stage startups […]
Oregon BEST, OSU Ventures back eChemion for Technology that Triples Battery Life
Oregon BEST has awarded follow-on funding to an Oregon startup and Oregon State University spinout that has developed a new clean technology that triples the life of redox flow batteries used for renewable energy storage. The company, eChemion, has a chemical treatment technology that solves a major issue with flow batteries: degradation over time of […]
Stanford seed grants push the boundaries of innovative research on clean energy | Stanford News
The Precourt Institute for Energy and the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy at Stanford have awarded 15 faculty seed grants totaling $2.7 million for groundbreaking research on clean energy. Launched in 2010, the seed-grant programs fund innovative research proposals with the potential for high impact on energy supply and use. Precourt Institute for Energy “The Stanford Precourt […]
Rev1 Ventures, Ohio State University Launches $22 Million Seed Fund to Fuel High-Growth Startups
Today, Rev1Ventures, a top VC investor in the Great Lakes Region, announced the launch of Rev1 Fund I, the company’s most significant fund to-date and the largest seed-stage fund in Columbus history. A first-of-its-kind for the region, the corporate-backed fund is supported by Nationwide, The Ohio State University, Cardinal Health and other top Columbus companies […]
NC State Boosts Efforts to Commercialize Research Discoveries | NC State University
North Carolina State University has announced that seven projects will receive support from its Chancellor’s Innovation Fund (CIF) in fiscal year 2017. The funding will help NC State researchers move innovative discoveries from the lab bench to the marketplace, in areas ranging from the development of new antibiotics to the creation of faster, more accurate […]
The Marquette University Enterprise Seed Fund is taking applications for its third round of funding, good example of Intake Process
Overview and purpose of the fund The fund will provide seed capital to growing start-up businesses at critical junctures in their development. Open to all disciplines across campus, it will support activities, including commercialization activities, that further accelerate business growth. In addition, the fund seeks to strengthen the link between research and technology transfer and […]
University of Kansas license agreement makes it easier for faculty to form new companies and for university to invest
A new type of licensing agreement now available to faculty members at the University of Kansas is making it easier for them to take lab discoveries and spin them out into new startup companies. Nikki Cheng, associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at KU Medical Center and founder of Fennik Life Sciences LLC, is […]
University of Northern Iowa’s incubator lets young companies develop with support programs
Last spring saw more than the usual “graduations” at the University of Northern Iowa. The Innovation Incubator at UNI’s Center for Business Growth and Innovation saw four companies — iTracking Research, Dyton Creative Inc., Follow Your Strengths and Red Lab Technologies — move up and out. Three-year-old iTracking had learned all it could in the […]