Battery startup big University of Waterloo Velocity Fund winner
A startup that is developing battery technology was the big winner at the Velocity Fund Finals at the University of Waterloo on Thursday. Salient Energy won one of four $25,000 prizes as well as a $10,000 prize awarded to the top hardware startup in the competition. Ten startups competed for prizes in the Velocity Fund […]
Third €100,000 Malta Seed Fund enables start-ups to take off
The Ministry for the Economy, Investment and Small Business today handed out funds at this year’s €100,000 Seed Fund Award during a ceremony which was presided over by the Rector of the University of Malta, Prof. Alfred J. Vella. This year’s €100,000 TAKEOFF Seed Fund Award will benefit 9 researchers and entrepreneurs to help them […]
Indiana to propose $1B plan to boost innovation, entrepreneurship
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence on Thursday is scheduled to announce a plan to spend $1 billion over the next 10 years to boost innovation and entrepreneurship in the state. The plan centers on collaboration between government, research universities, communities and the private sector. Pence was set to publicly unveil the multi-pronged proposal at the eighth […]
RI Slater Fund offers $500,000 for new drug-discovery firm
The Slater Technology Fund on Thursday announced it is dedicating $500,000 in seed funding to help launch MindImmune Therapeutics, a company that hopes to develop drugs that will utilize the immune system to treat such neurological diseases as Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s. The money will further expand the company’s collaboration with the George and Anne Ryan […]
Senators introduce bipartisan bill to support U.S. research and education
The U.S. science community got a big pat on the back today from members of the Senate commerce and science committee. The senators delivered their encouraging message in the form of a bipartisan bill that would reauthorize programs at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and tweak […]
$24.9M New Zealand Start-up fund recipients announced
Start-up fund recipients announced Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce today announced the successful recipients of the 2016 PreSeed Accelerator Fund. “This fund supports the commercialisation of publicly funded research technologies to the point where new companies can be formed or the technology licensed or sold to existing businesses,” Mr Joyce says. “The successful applicants […]
London start-up scene weighs threat of British Techxit
Britain’s tech start-up scene was having a bumper year in terms of new company creation, fresh funding and acquisitions by global tech players before voters decided to leave the European Union in Thursday’s referendum. Now high-profile companies are threatening to pull out or slow down plans to enter the UK market, international employees are second-guessing […]
Chicago Impact Engine Launches $10M Fund, Betting Capitalists Can Do Well While Doing Good
Some dismiss social impact entrepreneurship as a feel-good diversion. But a group of successful investors in Chicago are throwing $10 million on the table to prove that capitalists can do well while doing good. Impact Engine today announced a $10 million early-stage impact investment fund for companies dedicated to making money and solving one social […]
University of Albany Presidential Innovation Fund for Research and Scholarship
In support of this aim, the University announced the creation of the Presidential Innovation Fund for Research and Scholarship (PIFRS) program last year to stimulate new cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research. Now in its second year, this $500,000 competitive, peer reviewed, seed funding program will once again fund multi-investigator led projects in targeted research areas including liberal […]
Sacramento devotes $10 million to high-tech firms, but plan faces risks
When the City Council approved a $10 million fund for high-tech investments last month, Sacramento joined a handful of municipalities across the country hoping to buy their way into the economy of the future with public money. Philadelphia, Portland, Ore., – and now Sacramento – don’t expect to turn themselves into the next Silicon Valley. […]