Isis Innovation, University of Oxford seed funded company, NaturalMotion, sold for $527m
Isis Innovation worked with Zoology researcher Torsten Reil to protect his intellectual property, develop a business plan, and introduce first-round investors. The company was spun out in 2001. US social games company Zynga has now finalised the acquisition of Natural Motion for more than $527m, one of the largest transactions ever involving an Oxford spin-out. […]
$35K FSU GAP Grant Recipient Aims To Eliminate Preterm Labor
A Florida State University researcher is tackling a new and inventive way to slow down and perhaps prevent preterm labor. The solution? A pair of goggles. Specifically, Associate Professor James Olcese is developing goggles — he’s calling them light emitting devices — that could intermittently flash a blue light at a sleeping pregnant mother at risk for […]
Northwestern INVO Announces Partnership With Children’s Hospital that includes a $200K/yr Gap POC Program
The Innovation and New Ventures Office (INVO) at Northwestern University announces a new partnership with Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago Research Center (Lurie Children’s Research Center) to provide invention disclosure, licensing and commercialization support.
Two UCD Research Receive €150,000 each From ERC POC Awards
UCD researchers are the most successful Irish based researchers in the latest round of European Research Council (ERC) ‘top-up’ funding or ‘Proof of Concept’ awards. Two of the three Irish based researchers who were awarded one of the thirty-four grants announced by the ERC [today] are based at University College Dublin: Professor Frederic Dias, UCD School of Mathematical Sciences; […]
University of Kansas Alumnus Makes $100K Gift To Support Venture Fund
University of Kansas alumnus Clay C. Blair III, of Olathe, has made a $100,000 gift for the KU Venture Fund. The university and KU Endowment established the fund to help startup companies move research discoveries from KU into the marketplace with the goal of sparking innovation in Kansas. This is the largest gift for the […]
Purdue Research Foundation Creates $15M Fund for Life Sciences Start-ups
Purdue Research Foundation and Cook Medical have created a $12 million evergreen investment fund to financially support life science startup companies tied to Purdue University. The Foundry Investment Fund, announced Tuesday, will be used to match outside donations to fund companies based on Purdue technology or expertise in the fields of human and animal health and plant […]
Natural Gas Vehicle Start-up, Simple Fill, Lands $1M From Ohio State University and Ohio Third Frontier
Simple-Fill, a startup developing technology to allow vehicles running on compressed natural gas to fill up at home, has received an initial investment from a fund backed by Ohio State University and the Ohio Third Frontier program. Simple-Fill’s CNG technology came from engineers at Ohio State University’s Center for Automotive Research. Its undisclosed investment came from the […]
LSU $2M LIFT POC Fund Approved
LSU LIFT, or Leveraging Innovation for Technology Transfer, Fund will support commercialization of faculty intellectual property through small grants for applied research on proof of concept
U.Va. Spinoff Announces Collaboration with Pfizer, CIT GAP Fund
Neoantigenics LLC, a new biotechnology company founded on discoveries made by Dr. John Herr at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, announced today it has entered into an early-stage research and development collaboration with Pfizer Inc.
University of Washington Green Seed Fund Approves $279K In Projects
The Green Seed Fund awards grants to UW faculty, students, and staff to research opportunities that advance sustainable research while contributing to campus sustainability goals. Listed below are projects awarded for funding during 2014.