Wisconsin WEDC grants help grow entrepreneurship programs across state
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation is helping 11 organizations develop and expand programs aimed at growing entrepreneurship throughout the state. WEDC’s new Entrepreneurship Support pilot program is awarding the organizations $500,000 in grants to help fund programs that promote entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial education, mentorship and training, business development and financial services. “Much of the economic growth […]
Firebrand Ventures partners with UMKC to cultivate entrepreneurs
Firebrand Ventures has partnered with the University of Missouri-Kansas City to help local startup entrepreneurs. As part of the agreement, the Kansas City-based fund will offer graduates of UMKC’s E-Scholars program an opportunity to receive an investment from Firebrand starting in 2017. Housed under UMKC’s Regnier Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (RIEI), E-Scholars offers students […]
10 corporations, Georgia Tech launch Engage, an accelerator program and venture
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, the Georgia Institute of Technology and the CEOs of 10 of Atlanta’s leading corporations today jointly announced the launch of Engage, a mentorship-driven accelerator program and venture fund. The Atlanta-based Engage accelerator is open to startups across the country, with a focus placed on mentoring and market access strategies. Applications will […]
$250K in Presidential awards fund faculty and staff research and projects at University of North Georgia
More than $250,000 will support various faculty and staff projects and initiatives in 2017 at the University of North Georgia (UNG), marking the fourth year of the Presidential Initiative Awards program, instituted by UNG President Bonita C. Jacobs in 2013. “Since launching this program, we have awarded about $780,000 in support of more than 125 […]
UCSF Receives $500 Million For Faculty And Research Improvement from Foundation
University of California – San Francisco has received a $500 million donation from the late Helen Diller through her foundation. This is one of the largest donations made to the university as well as in the history of other academic institutions. In its official website, the University of California San Francisco confirmed that the Helen […]
Wake Forest Innovation’s Catalyst Fund to support 6 early-stage technologies
Six early-stage technologies, all invented at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Centerand being developed through Wake Forest Innovations, will receive a combined $595,000 investment to support their initial development. The funding was announced Wednesday by Pappas Capital and Wake Forest Innovations, the money coming through the Catalyst Fund, a $15 million technology development program established by […]
Creation of Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST) 30 years ago help fuel Oklahoma startup firms
Author, visionary, and predictor H.G. Wells has been called the father of science fiction. In his most famous book, “The Time Machine,” Wells propels his main character forward by more than 800,000 years to imagined worlds. When Wells was drafting this best-seller (long before there were any best-seller lists), the real world was at the […]
New Michigan state-backed funds to deploy $4.2 million to early-stage companies
Detroit-based nonprofit will manage a new statewide fund created to provide needed early-stage capital to startups in Michigan. Despite the name and initiatives focused primarily on community development in its hometown, Invest Detroit will spread funding from the $4.2 million, two-year First Capital Fund across the state. Invest Detroit intends to meet regularly with Michigan’s […]
Invest Georgia plows $3.25 million into Mosley Ventures
Atlanta-based Mosley Ventures has received a $3.25 million investment from Invest Georgia, a state-run venture capital fund. The General Assembly created Invest Georgia back in 2013, an initiative of Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, to boost investment in Georgia-based growth and early-stage companies The VC fund was allocated $20 million out of an allowed $100 million […]
University of Akron unveils $500K Spark Fund program to fund student, faculty innovations
The University of Akron Research Foundation is unveiling a new program called the Spark Fund to help develop new innovations and technologies among graduate students and faculty.The program, which aims to foster innovations leading to university start-ups, will pay to prototype and test five to seven innovations in 2017, thanks to matching funding from the Ohio […]