Category: Location

Sanovas Prepares for Global Expansion by Creating Innovation Center and Venture Capital Fund in China

Sanovas, Inc., a Life Science technology company innovating the next-generation of micro-invasive medical technologies, announced today that it has achieved an agreement with the People’s Government of Suzhou, China, to establish a venture capital fund and Innovation Center at the Suzhou Institute of Nanotechnology and NanoBionics (SINANO) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences located within […]

Zone Startups India floats early-stage VC fund to back tech startups, backed by Ryerson University

Mumbai-based technology startup accelerator Zone Startups India has launched an early-stage venture capital fund to back software startups with a focus on mobile technology and enterprise tech. Christened as Zone Startups India Fund, the fund is backed by Toronto-based startup accelerator Ryerson Futures, the investment arm of Ryerson University and the Chokhani family office. Citing […]

Rutgers University Launches TechAdvance Funding Program to Advance Inventions Toward Commercialization 

TechAdvance, a new early-stage technology development fund created to bring innovative technologies invented by Rutgers researchers closer to commercialization, was launched through the university’s Office of Research and Economic Development (ORED). Offering grants of up to $100,000 for Rutgers faculty and students to help advance promising technologies toward commercialization, the TechAdvance program was created by […]

NJ State and Digital Jersey in new start-up fund talks 

DISCUSSIONS about what to replace the Jersey Innovation Fund with in order to help start-up businesses have been held between the States and Digital Jersey. The Jersey Innovation Fund was frozen earlier this year after a damning report by Comptroller and Auditor General Karen McConnell found that serious failures had been made in the running […]

MIT Engine Funnels Millions Into On-Campus Startups

Universities are home to innovation and new technologies, but some of the big ideas coming out of school labs may never become a reality. Turning them into viable businesses requires money, patience, and investor appetite. But thanks to dozens of university venture capital funds that have cropped up in the United States in recent years, smart […]

South Florida Startup Ecosystem Continues Pattern of Growth and Investment

Nearpod, an education-technology startup, keeps outgrowing its Aventura offices. “We have been doubling the company every year — in people, revenue, users, all the key metrics,” said Felipe Sommer. He co-founded the company with Guido Kovalskys and Emiliano Abramzon, three Argentine friends who have worked on ventures together for more than a decade. Nearpod now […]

Venture capital firm bets on New Mexico 

When Brian Birk, the managing partner of Sun Mountain Capital, talks about venture investing in New Mexico, his voice projects an almost evangelical fervor. The man is a believer: “New Mexico is a technically sophisticated place with a very deep talent pool,” he said. “Look at Silicon Valley. There are startups everywhere, but little innovation. […]

FSU faculty win GAP awards to take science from lab to market 

Three Florida State University faculty members will receive financial support from the university to transport their innovative research from the laboratory to the marketplace. The Office of the Vice President Research will split a pot of $110,000 among three researchers to build a new education application, a technology to track ocean currents and a novel […]

InNEVenture Fund to ramp up commercialization at U Nevada

A new source of proof-of-concept funding has been established to help University of Nevada, Reno faculty, students, staff and recent graduates determine if their technologies and business ideas have commercialization potential and help them navigate the gap between concept validation and obtaining seed funding for their venture. Applications are being accepted through Tuesday, Oct. 12, […]