Oklahoma Catalyst Program teaches graduate students about integrating business, science
An Oklahoma Catalyst Program taught 29 graduate students from OU, OU Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma State University and the University of Tulsa how to launch a business over the summer, according to a press release from OU research. The Oklahoma Catalyst Programs are an office of the Tom Love Innovation Hub, which held the program. […]
CIT GAP Funds Invests in Embody
Herndon, Virginia, Aug. 28, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) announced today that CIT GAP Funds has invested in Embody, a Norfolk, Virginia based medical device company developing collagen-based products for the treatment of tendon and ligament injuries. The 757 Angels led this investment in Embody’s convertible debt round, alongside CIT and individual investors. […]
Foxconn Creates $100M Venture Fund
Foxconn Technology Group continues to make its presence felt in the Wisconsin business community. The latest move: The Taiwanese contract manufacturer is forming a $100 million early-stage venture capital fund with three of the Badger State’s leading companies and organizations. Advocate Aurora Health, Northwestern Mutual, Johnson Controls, and Foxconn will each contribute $25 million to the fund, […]
2 MSU POC programs get boost to continue in
LANSING, Mich (WLNS) – Two innovative projects at Michigan State University have a green light today to continue their groundbreaking work. The Michigan Strategic Fund Board today approved a two-year extension and refunding of $500,000 for the University Early State Proof of Concept Fund-ADVANCE program. That program supports the current gap in the pipeline of moving […]
University of Queensland biotech startup NexGen Plants bags $3 million
Schenk tells StartupSmart the technology poses an alternative to genetically modified produce, allowing for cross-breeding of plants to introduce desirable traits by adding only the genome that’s required for that trait. There are big parts of certain plants’ genomes that are “hidden treasures”, Schenk says, and by extracting those genomes and placing them into other plants, the […]
Michigan angels raising $25M venture capital fund
A local angel investor organization has set out to raise a $25-million venture capital fund. Grand Rapids-based Grand Angels said yesterday it filed a form Regulation D with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to create Grand Angels Venture Fund III. GA Fund III will invest in 12-15 “emerging companies” in four market segments: advanced […]
Accelerator program propels Alabama Birmingham startups to successful launches
Tan and other Fledging team members are proud that their startup company is profitable. (Alicia Rohan/UAB) Fledging – one of seven student-led ventures of the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Commercialization Accelerator – has moved into Innovation Depot, allowing students to work in the hub of Birmingham’s startup network. “We’re extremely proud to have Fledging join Innovation Depot,” said Devon […]
Celgene Donates $100K to Rutgers’ TechAdvance® Gap Funding Program
Rutgers University’s TechAdvance Fund, a proof-of-concept fund created through the university’s Office of Research and Economic Development (ORED) to advance early stage Rutgers technologies toward commercialization, received $100,000 from Celgene Corporation, marking the first corporate donation since the program’s inception in June 2017. “The TechAdvance program serves as a catalyst to move Rutgers inventions beyond […]
UCT’s Bertha Centre dishes out $50k startup grant funding
BY TOM JACKSON ON AUGUST 9, 2018 The Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Cape Town (UCT) Graduate School of Business (GSB) has awarded a total of ZAR660,000 (US$50,000) to 10 startups via two different grant funding mechanisms. Established in 2011, the Bertha Centre has integrated social innovation into the GSB curriculum, established a wide […]
U Michigan fund invests $100,000 in plant-based jerky
The Zell Lurie Founders Fund at the University of Michigan announced Wednesday morning that it has made a seed investment of $100,000 in Chicago-based Mindwell Snacks LLC, which makes and markets jerky made from plants. The fund is led by students in the Zell Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies. This investment was in a company […]