European VC, Epidarex, announces £50m into life sciences venture fund for university spin-outs
Investors keen to capitalise on British science have poured nearly £50m into a new venture capital fund. Epidarex, a specialist life science venture capital group, will on Thursday unveil a new £47.5m fund dedicated to UK start-ups, including university spin-outs. Backers include US drug giant Eli Lilly as well as King’s College London and other […]
Wayne State University gets $250K boost from local Detroit Innovate Fund
The Detroit Innovate Fund, a new fund to help launch local high-tech startup companies, has invested $250,000 in Detroit Materials Inc., a Wayne State University spinoff that hopes to make cast-steel parts for the military, mining and off-road markets. The company will use that money, and $150,000 awarded this month through a phase-one Small Business Innovative Research grant […]
QED Program launches seventh round of funding; to put near $1M in start-ups
As the University City Science Center’s QED proof-of-concept program launches its seventh round, one of its newest academic partners, The Pennsylvania State University, has expanded its involvement from the Medical College at Hershey to include its main campus at University Park. University Park hosts hundreds of life science researchers in colleges including the Eberly College […]
University of Wisconsin System IdeaAdvance Seed Fund Announces First Recipients
University of Wisconsin’s IdeaAdvance fund announces its first round of seed funding. IdeaAdvance couples funds with support services, such as business mentoring and development assistance to encourage technology transfer from the UW System, especially those schools without a historic capability of transferring its ideas to the marketplace.
OHSU Funds Venture Firm to Raise $100M Life Sciences Seed Fund
Oregon Health & Science University is collaborating in a new venture capital fund that’s the only one in the state focused on health care and life sciences. OHSU is paying Allegory Venture Partners up to $1.2 million over a two-year period to support the fund’s launch and operation. Allegory is attempting to raise at least […]
University of Kansas POC Fund Faculty Program Set For June 10th
This seminar will be held at the Simons Biosciences Research Laboratories, Room 100. Located at 2093 Constant Avenue, Lawrence, Kansas
U Chicago Publishes Story on Commercialization; $20M Innovation Fund
John Flavin stands in the Harper Court “Skydeck” illuminated by a spotlight. Around him, in a loose semicircle, about 100 onlookers fill the 12th-floor space with a buzzing intensity. Flavin draws them in. “Everybody huddle up,” he says. “Let’s form a scrum.” Four UChicago research teams are at the Skydeck to receive Innovation Fund awards […]
Allied Minds Plans London IPO; University Spin-outs to Benefit
Allied Minds, a U.S.-based company that commercializes research and inventions from universities, plans to raise about $140 million of capital from investors in a London listing, it said on Tuesday.
University of Iowa Accepting Pre-Proposals For Commercialization GAP Fund
The University of Iowa Research Foundation announced today that it will begin accepting applications for its Commercialization GAP fund program. The UIRF Gap Fund is a phenomenal example of a proof of concept and seed fund managed and sustained by university foundation/tech transfer management through a campus-wide integrated approach through its Centers for Enterprise programs.
University of Houston Professor Invents App to Diagnose Skin Cancer
The University of Houston division of research backed Dr. George Zouridakis with $50,000 in gap funding to support proof of concept work and to upgrade the app software for commercial application. Questions remain about the accessibility (or justification) of use by the general public with the associated cost of the necessary dermoscope hardware ($500). However, […]