Innovators & Entrepreneurs: Seed fund plants success in Oklahoma
Black Mesa in the Panhandle is the highest and driest place in Oklahoma. Black Mesa used to be considered a no-man’s land. Paleontologists went there to look for dinosaur bones. It’s the harshest, coldest place in the state. And yet, the flora and fauna reported in the Black Mesa are unique — some of these […]
Boston University Launches Campus-Wide Crowdfunding Platform – Crowdfund Insider
On Tuesday, Boston University announced it has recently launched its very owncrowdfunding platform for campus-based projects. According to BU Today, the university has developed the portal to help academic departments, student groups, and other members of the BU community raise funds for research, service trips, projects, events, and other BU-specific ventures. Kaitlyn Busconi, coach and former member of […]
Ghana’s start-up hub pioneer is going pan-African with a $50 million fund — Quartz
Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) has built one of Africa’s best known start-up ecosystems in Accra, Ghana over the last eight years—and now it’s doubling down on a push to take its vision pan-African. As MEST has grown, it has opened up its local entrepreneur training program to founders from Nigeria and Kenya who […]
Peoria’s OSF hospitals launch $75 million VC fund
A hospital run by a small group of nuns in Peoria probably isn’t the first place you’d look for the cutting edge. But OSF Healthcare, which runs 11 hospitals across the state, is one of a few dozen hospitals nationwide directly investing in startups. Some of the more well-known hospitals with venture funds include […]
University of Energy launches US$10m Endowment Fund | Business News 2016-04-13
The University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) in Sunyani has launched a US$10million endowment fund to cushion the young University into a higher pedestal in the next ten years. The endowment fund is expected to serve as supplementary to government’s subvention to the University so as to make it financially sufficient to deliver on […]
Arrowhead innovation fund preps to distribute
A lot more seed and early-stage capital could begin flowing into fledgling startups at New Mexico State University this summer thanks to a new innovation fund being set up by NMSU’s Arrowhead Center Inc. Arrowhead, which manages all of the university’s technology transfer and commercialization programs, announced its intent last year to establish a $2 […]
Unispectral Closes $7.5M Series A Funding, backed by Tel Aviv University
Unispectral, a Ramat Gan, Israel-based startup developing camera sensors with next-generation seeing and sensing capabilities, closed a $7.5m Series A funding. Backers included Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP), RBVC ( Robert Bosch Venture Capital), Samsung Catalyst Fund (the early stage investment arm of Samsung Strategy & Innovation Center) and The Tel Aviv University Technology Innovation Momentum […]
Dr. Mao receives UF Informatics Institute Seed Fund grant
Dr. Liang Mao just received a UF Informatics Institute Seed Fund 2016 grant for his new project “Developing temporally comparable high resolution rurality maps for social and health sciences”. The project will run from September 2016 to August 2017. Dr. Mao will investigate the concept of ‘rurality’ has been widely used by policy makers and governments at […]
Yale Endowment’s Venture Funds Hit Home Run
Yale’s aggressiveness in allocations to venture funds as a larger share of endowment investment portfolio appears to be paying off with returns from such companies as Uber and Airbnb. Over the past 20 years, this portfolio has earned 92.7% per annum and an 18% annualized return over the past 10 years. ————————- Yale University provided […]
Northwestern Student Startups Get Access To $14M in New Funds
Northwestern just announced two funds that will infuse some serious cash into commercializing university technology, and supporting student startups. On Thursday, the university announced the $10 million N.XT Fund, which will invest in early-stage innovations based on Northwestern technologies, and the $4 million NUSeeds Fund, which will support student startups out of the university. The […]