Utah USTAR awards grants to Utah companies and university researchers
USTAR awarded seven Technology Acceleration Program grants and seven University Technology Acceleration Grants in its latest round of funding. “This round of cutting-edge technologies has potential to translate into improved monitoring systems and methods to test and validate drug and device therapies,” said Ivy Estabrooke, Ph.D., USTAR executive director. “Awardee projects span long-range wireless telemetry […]
UC Davis innovators receive $328K in grants to advance research
UC Davis announced last week the recipients of nine proof-of-concept grants totaling $328,000 for campus innovators to advance their research and technologies toward commercialization. These grants and the associated review process are managed by UCD Venture Catalyst through the Science Translation and Innovative Research, or STAIR, grant program, which is in its fourth year, and […]
Pharmacy professor receives SUNY funding to spur research commercialization
A new technology led by UB faculty member Sathy Balu-Iyer that has the potential to treat autoimmune diseases and improve the success of gene therapy is one of four SUNY research projects that recently received investments from the SUNY Technology Accelerator Fund (TAF). Funded jointly by SUNY and the SUNY Research Foundation, TAF helps faculty […]
Ottawa announces $1.2 billion Strategic Innovation Fund
Ottawa is launching a new $1.26 billion Strategic Innovation Fund that’s available across all sectors, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains announced today in Hamilton, Ont. The fund is intended to support four types of innovation activities, according to a government news release. Those are organized into four different streams: research, development, and […]
Light Polymers Closes $5m Series B Strategic Funding Round with Tokyo Electron and Tsingda International Venture Capital
Tsingda International Venture Capital is part of the Tsinghua Innovation Center in Dongguan (TICD), which is a joint venture fund between the Dongguan Government and Tsinghua University according to McConnaughey. Tsingda brings us a powerful partner in China to accelerate our chemistry material technologies in a number of areas. Light Polymers will set up a […]
Oxford Seed Fund invests in Noise-Cancellation Tech and Fraud Protection Software
Circadian, cyber security software, and Sanctum Technologies, noise cancellation for airplane cabins, are The Oxford Seed Fund’s newest investments. Added to a growing portfolio of high growth ventures including Onfido and Go1, the fund is in its fifth year of providing seed funding to ambitious Oxford-founded start-ups. “The Oxford Seed Fund couldn’t be more excited […]
UNLV Rebel Venture Fund Announces Echo Investment
At a special event for entrepreneurs and Venture Capital funds hosted at the RedFlint Experience Center, UNLV’s Rebel Venture Fund announced their largest investment in their newest portfolio company Echo Payment System’s Inc. (Echo) and the coinciding launch of Echo’s new Envudu program. “It may be a first to see the word ‘saving’ in the […]
Indiana University plots new VC fund amid agency revamp
Indiana University wants to do a better job helping startups affiliated with its community access capital, talent and office space. So it’s revamping a 20-year-old agency and gearing up to launch a new venture capital fund. Earlier this week, IU announced that it is reorganizing its Indiana University Research and Technology Corp., a not-for-profit organization […]
UC Riverside Launches $10 Million Highlander Venture Capital Fund
The University of California, Riverside has created a $10 million Highlander Venture Fund (HVF). The Highlander Fund, created with Silicon Valley’s Vertical Venture Partners, will provide seed capital to qualified opportunities within the university for students and faculty members, and entrepreneurs from Riverside County. The fund will target technologies that can be matched with a […]
University of Strathclyde awards £25k in funding as six start-up businesses share prize money
THE entrepreneurs of tomorrow have gained a step up in the business world after winning a share of £25,000 in vital start-up funding. Six were selected as finalists in the University of Strathclyde’s PropTech innovation challenge, sponsored by leading Scots businessman Shaf Rasul – who was named the university’s resident entrepreneur in February. He sponsored […]