Accelerate Start-up Challenge Provides Platform For Bostonian Students To Pitch Ideas For $$
A semester’s worth of brainstorming, planning, strategizing, and designing came down to Pitchfest, where interdisciplinary teams participating in the Accelerate Startup Challenge pitched their projects to a group of alumni, mentors, and representatives of Boston’s innovation ecosystem. The event took place the evening of November 14 in Accelerate, Wentworth Innovation + Entrepreneurship Center. Alpha Industries (Josh […]
Oregon BEST Adds New Members To BOD
Oregon BEST has elected four new members to its Board of Directors, adding regional expertise from private industry and government labs to its leadership body tasked with helping the organization speed commercialization of a wide range of new clean technologies.
University of Pennsylvania Unleashes New $2.1M Hybrid Incubator/Seed Fund
With funding from an array of venture capitalists and investors, four education startups are getting support from the Education Design Studio Inc. (EDSi), a new hybrid incubator and seed fund established by the University of Pennsylvania’sGraduate School of Education.
Wayne State University Bioinformatics Spin-out, Advaita, Leverages Seed Funding
Advaita Corp., a spinoff from Wayne State University that makes software to help university researchers and pharmaceutical companies better manage genomic data, has started raising a seed round of $1 million and been making the rounds at medical conferences and business-plan competitions.
Colorado Announces Creation Of $20M Start-up Fund
More money for early stage startups could be coming to Colorado, thanks to ongoing efforts by an incubator based in Fort Collins and a nonprofit lender to small businesses to bring more capital into the northern Colorado region. The Rocky Mountain Innosphere and Colorado Enterprise Fund announced this week they are in the process of creating a $20 million […]
Entrepreneur Alumni Give Back Through UCLA Venture Capital Fund
Think of the California university most closely tied to entrepreneurship and Stanford immediately leaps to mind, or maybe the University of California at Berkeley. Michael Silton is looking to add UCLA to that list, and he’s come up with a unique way of funding that effort.
W Fund Puts $500K in U Washington Web Application,Qazzow
Qazzow, a spin-out from the UW’s Information School, has created a breakthrough service that significantly improves the consumer experience with websites and web applications. The company is currently piloting with a number of online businesses and is already helping companies like Ben Bridge Jeweler, PetHub, and Yapta increase online sales. The Qazzow service enables these and other businesses to more […]
UIC Announces $400K In Awards From Chancellors Fund
The UIC Chancellor’s Innovation Fund (CIF) was established by the UIC Office of the Chancellor to enhance the Proof of Concept (POC) Awards Program’s capability to bridge the gap between basic research and commercialization. The CIF is a $10 million hybrid proof-of-concept and equity investment fund to be disbursed over five years. One million dollars […]
Florida State University Releases GAP Grant Recipients
Some of the state’s most innovative scientists were honored Nov. 13 for their work in addressing important societal needs such as faster wound healing for diabetics, more accurate test kits for food contaminants, a safer attention deficit hyperactivity disorder medication, a first-of-its-kind solution for concussions, and a more personal approach to diagnosing and treating Hepatitis […]
Interview With Mark Clarke, AVP of Tech Transfer U Houston, Talks About Their Commercialization Program, Gap Fund
An enlightening interview with Dr Mark Clarke, Associate Vice Chancellor/Vice President for Technology Transfer at the Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship in the Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston.