WA Life Sciences Discovery Fund announces ~$1M in matching grants
SEATTLE, Washington, March 9, 2015 – The Life Sciences Discovery Fund (LSDF) today announced nearly $1 million in Matching grants to two Washington-based companies to promote translation of promising treatments for devastating medical conditions from the laboratory to the commercial marketplace. Each award must be matched at least 1:1 by other funding sources. These grants […]
Student venture fund sees early returns at University of Akron
AKRON, Ohio — After investing in a handful of early-stage companies, a student startup booster at the University of Akron is seeing the first fruits of due diligence. On Wednesday, the Northeast Ohio Student Venture Fund accepted a check for $25,000 from Wastebits, an Akron company that designs software for the waste management industry. The […]
UW Extension seed fund supports tech innovators in Milwaukee
When Scott Vanderbeck started Organic Research Corp., he was focusing on developing technology that would teach computers to identify fatty liver disease from liver biopsies more efficiently and accurately than doctors could. Now, he’s finding there’s application in the technology for a whole lot more. “We learned there’s a lot of people who would use the […]
The Rebel Venture Capital Fund Seeks Student Entrepreneurs
The Rebel Venture Capital Fund is seeking University of Mississippi students that harbor the entrepreneurial spirit and are interested in a grant to get their business started. The RVCF is an independent, alumni-supported investment group that works as a non-profit entity. They’re separate from the university but exist solely to fund businesses started by Ole […]
Business Oregon launches innovation grant program
Business Oregon has launched a one-time grant program for state businesses to support research and innovation. The economic development agency will make available a total of $400,000 in grant money to help businesses apply for federal research grants and match any major grants awarded. “The federal government makes available $2.5 billion each year for small […]
Purdue startups seek millions in cash this semester
Purdue University researcher Michael Zenter is familiar with the valley of funding death. It’s the gap in available capital that exists between research-level funding and business loans offered to viable companies, and it’s spelled catastrophe for many startups. But if you have a good enough idea, that valley seems to narrow with resources available from […]
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy begins seed fund for researchers
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has created a seed fund to support multidisciplinary research at the private university. Jonathon Dordick, vice president of research, says his office pledged up to $100,000 each to four research projects last month. The funding is part of a new initiative, the knowledge and innovation program, that aims to broaden the multidisciplinary […]
Penn State Innovation Fund moving good ideas forward
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — In April 2014 the Penn State Research Foundation created The Fund for Innovation to promote commercialization of promising new ideas and discoveries generated by Penn State’s $800 million research enterprise. The primary goal is to create new companies and new jobs, and by doing so to increase the already sizable positive […]
Marquette strategic innovation fund draws more than 270 pre-proposals
The University Innovation Council has begun reviewing the 275 project pre-proposals that were submitted for the strategic innovation fund, and over the coming weeks the council will provide feedback on the pre-proposals and help identify opportunities for collaboration. Of the submissions, 180 of the project leaders were identified as faculty members, with 81 from staff and […]
SBA promotes innovation and technology with national road tour
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) will launch an 18 state road tour, joined by 11 fellow federal agencies in the SBA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. The SBIR Road Tour “Seeding America’s Future Innovations,” is a nationally focused outreach initiative targeting advanced technology communities, including women-owned and […]