NYU and ffVC collaborate on AI startup support program
The NYU Tandon School of Engineering and ff Venture Capital (ffVC), a leading early-stage technology venture capital firm based in New York City, this morning will announce New York City’s first program to launch and support artificial intelligence (AI) startups. The program will also mark the first time in the United States that a university […]
Proposed $100 million public-private partnership would seed new Michigan VC funds
The trade group for venture capitalists in Michigan wants to form a $100 million fund to match millions in private capital with public investment. Under the proposal that’s being pushed by the Michigan Venture Capital Association, private investors would put $75 million into a fund to seed new venture capital funds, an amount the state […]
UB CAT awards over $500K to innovative life sciences companies
The University at Buffalo Center for Advanced Biomedical and Bioengineering Technology (UB CAT), a program of UB’s New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences (CBLS), has awarded more than $500,000 in funding to 16 life sciences companies. Sponsored by the New York State Division of Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR), the […]
RI Slater Fund offers $500,000 for new drug-discovery firm
The Slater Technology Fund on Thursday announced it is dedicating $500,000 in seed funding to help launch MindImmune Therapeutics, a company that hopes to develop drugs that will utilize the immune system to treat such neurological diseases as Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s. The money will further expand the company’s collaboration with the George and Anne Ryan […]
Indiana to propose $1B plan to boost innovation, entrepreneurship
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence on Thursday is scheduled to announce a plan to spend $1 billion over the next 10 years to boost innovation and entrepreneurship in the state. The plan centers on collaboration between government, research universities, communities and the private sector. Pence was set to publicly unveil the multi-pronged proposal at the eighth […]
Senators introduce bipartisan bill to support U.S. research and education
The U.S. science community got a big pat on the back today from members of the Senate commerce and science committee. The senators delivered their encouraging message in the form of a bipartisan bill that would reauthorize programs at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and tweak […]
Chicago Impact Engine Launches $10M Fund, Betting Capitalists Can Do Well While Doing Good
Some dismiss social impact entrepreneurship as a feel-good diversion. But a group of successful investors in Chicago are throwing $10 million on the table to prove that capitalists can do well while doing good. Impact Engine today announced a $10 million early-stage impact investment fund for companies dedicated to making money and solving one social […]
University of Albany Presidential Innovation Fund for Research and Scholarship
In support of this aim, the University announced the creation of the Presidential Innovation Fund for Research and Scholarship (PIFRS) program last year to stimulate new cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research. Now in its second year, this $500,000 competitive, peer reviewed, seed funding program will once again fund multi-investigator led projects in targeted research areas including liberal […]
Sacramento devotes $10 million to high-tech firms, but plan faces risks
When the City Council approved a $10 million fund for high-tech investments last month, Sacramento joined a handful of municipalities across the country hoping to buy their way into the economy of the future with public money. Philadelphia, Portland, Ore., – and now Sacramento – don’t expect to turn themselves into the next Silicon Valley. […]
Alaska Launches Tech Accelerator Fund
“Diversify the economy” is Alaska’s rallying cry as oil production and prices sink. First of its kind Alaska tech accelerator Launch: Alaska wants to put the idea into action with the hot-ticket item of booming Lower 48 metro areas. The program combines Anchorage municipal goals to draw more diverse businesses into the city with private […]