Amazon donates funds to Nashville Entrepreneur Center
Nashville’s record-setting economic development recruit is helping fund a series of programs at the city’s Entrepreneur Center. Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) is now a formal “supporting partner” of the 11-year-old nonprofit organization, which announced the contribution on March 31. Amazon’s funding will support five existing programs at the EC: PreFlight, which is for first-time entrepreneurs […]
MSU’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Outreach awards $36K during annual Startup Summit | Mississippi State University
Mississippi State’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Outreach again hosted its annual Startup Summit, the university’s top student business venture competition, which resulted in a first-place tie in the event’s grand finale. MSU’s two grand prize recipients are Shuvam Saha, an engineering doctoral student from Kolkata, India, and Stone Vincent, a fashion design and merchandising master’s […]
Nexus Louisiana, LSU Launch Accelerator Program for Entrepreneurs
Nexus Louisiana and Louisiana State University have announced Ignition, a new initiative to help aspiring entrepreneurs evaluate their business idea’s viability through customer discovery and development. During this eight-week entrepreneurial accelerator program, business mentors and industry experts will guide participants through the customer development process step-by-step designed to help them answer a very simple but […]
City University of Hong Kong launches start-up program
The City University of Hong Kong has launched a large-scale flagship innovation and entrepreneurship program – HK Tech 300 – for aspiring entrepreneurs among its students and staffers, aiming to create 300 start-ups in three years. The program will offer professional training and a seed fund for different project teams to develop innovative ideas into start-ups, validating […]
Ohio Third Frontier Commission growing technology startups, talent
This month, the Ohio Third Frontier Commission approved $72.7 million in funding that will provide capital to innovative startup companies, advance medical technology and foster young talent through a new High School Tech Internship Pilot Program. “We are investing in technology that will attract private capital from across the state and beyond,” said Lydia Mihalik, […]
New U Mich OVPR funding program aims to support, catalyze research
The Office of the Vice President for Research has developed a new funding program that aims to catalyze research and spur innovation across the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor, Dearborn and Flint campuses. The Research Catalyst and Innovation Program features four new funding mechanisms that total more than $1.5 million in annual research support to […]
UB incubator gives new push to startup growth
The University at Buffalo’s new $7 million downtown incubator represents the region’s latest step toward promoting the growth of startups. The incubator consists of four floors inside the Center of Excellence for Bioinformatics and Life Sciences on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. There are sleek new offices for entrepreneurs, along with laboratory space. But the […]
Cornell AI startup secures $1 million in seed funding
Iterate Labs, a startup with Cornell beginnings that uses wearable sensors and computer vision to drive factory production and worker safety, has obtained $1 million in seed funding to support the company’s growth. The funding award was led by Monozukuri Ventures, a specialized investor in hardware and manufacturing technology companies, with co-investor Tyson Ventures, the […]
John Brumby on Victoria’s $2b innovation fund – InnovationAus
Victoria’s $2 billion commercialisation fund will lead to a “quantum shift” for the state, according to former Premier John Brumby, who will chair the new fund. The Breakthrough Victoria Fund, which will provide funding to local companies for R&D adoption and commercialisation over the next decade, is now up and running with the government establishing a new […]
Pitt announces application for student Big Idea Advantage Fund
Our goal at the Big Idea Center is to provide students with the opportunity to take their ideas from concept to reality. We are thrilled to be able to take this mission one step further by introducing the Big Idea Advantage Fund! This new investment opportunity is the first of its kind and geared towards […]