Can An Investment Fund Make Minnesota A Medtech Mecca?
If Minnesota really wants to realize its long-held dream of becoming a national hub for medtech and biotech research and to benefit from the high-paying jobs that could spawn, it needs a well-funded, long-range commitment from the state — and what better time to do that than with a $900 million budget surplus in hand? […]
Innovators & Entrepreneurs: Seed fund plants success in Oklahoma
Black Mesa in the Panhandle is the highest and driest place in Oklahoma. Black Mesa used to be considered a no-man’s land. Paleontologists went there to look for dinosaur bones. It’s the harshest, coldest place in the state. And yet, the flora and fauna reported in the Black Mesa are unique — some of these […]
Boston University Launches Campus-Wide Crowdfunding Platform – Crowdfund Insider
On Tuesday, Boston University announced it has recently launched its very owncrowdfunding platform for campus-based projects. According to BU Today, the university has developed the portal to help academic departments, student groups, and other members of the BU community raise funds for research, service trips, projects, events, and other BU-specific ventures. Kaitlyn Busconi, coach and former member of […]
Peoria’s OSF hospitals launch $75 million VC fund
A hospital run by a small group of nuns in Peoria probably isn’t the first place you’d look for the cutting edge. But OSF Healthcare, which runs 11 hospitals across the state, is one of a few dozen hospitals nationwide directly investing in startups. Some of the more well-known hospitals with venture funds include […]
Arrowhead innovation fund preps to distribute
A lot more seed and early-stage capital could begin flowing into fledgling startups at New Mexico State University this summer thanks to a new innovation fund being set up by NMSU’s Arrowhead Center Inc. Arrowhead, which manages all of the university’s technology transfer and commercialization programs, announced its intent last year to establish a $2 […]
Off to great start-ups: Rowan gives $200K
Rowan University senior Nicholas Dennis and graduate Melissa Schipke have different ideas for increasing community engagement, but they share the same dream of building early-stage startups. With help from the Rowan University Innovation Venture Fund, the two will be able to do just that. The fund — dedicated to helping young entrepreneurs build fledgling businesses into viable operations that […]
University of Massachusetts announces $215,000 in Tech Development Awards
President Marty Meehan today announced $215,000 in funding for a program that over the past 13 years has seen UMass invest $2,355,000 in faculty R&D projects, leading to $15 million in follow-on investment, generating numerous commercial licenses and patents and resulting in startup companies locating in Massachusetts. “With these awards, we are investing in today […]
Dr. Mao receives UF Informatics Institute Seed Fund grant
Dr. Liang Mao just received a UF Informatics Institute Seed Fund 2016 grant for his new project “Developing temporally comparable high resolution rurality maps for social and health sciences”. The project will run from September 2016 to August 2017. Dr. Mao will investigate the concept of ‘rurality’ has been widely used by policy makers and governments at […]
Yale Endowment’s Venture Funds Hit Home Run
Yale’s aggressiveness in allocations to venture funds as a larger share of endowment investment portfolio appears to be paying off with returns from such companies as Uber and Airbnb. Over the past 20 years, this portfolio has earned 92.7% per annum and an 18% annualized return over the past 10 years. ————————- Yale University provided […]
Northwestern Student Startups Get Access To $14M in New Funds
Northwestern just announced two funds that will infuse some serious cash into commercializing university technology, and supporting student startups. On Thursday, the university announced the $10 million N.XT Fund, which will invest in early-stage innovations based on Northwestern technologies, and the $4 million NUSeeds Fund, which will support student startups out of the university. The […]