Purdue business competition awards $115,000 to 12 winning student startups
The Burton D. Morgan Business Model Competition awarded 12 student startups funding totaling $115,000. Purdue University’s Center for Entrepreneurship hosted the final presentations in late February. The top three winners received a total of $55,000 in funding. First-place winners included Spiro Therapeutics, awarded $25,000; MediTrack awarded $15,000 and Incas Diagnostics awarded $15,000. The Burton D. Morgan Business Model Competition […]
UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund Invests in Seven Companies
UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund (UKI2S) , formerly known as Rainbow Seed Fund, a Harwell, Oxford-based early-stage venture capital fund focused on promising technologies based on the UK’s publicly-funded research, has invested in seven companies. The investment was made via the Government’s Innovate UK (IUK) £8.5m investment accelerator, which combines equity and grant funding to back […]
NUS Enterprise and Singtel Innov8 launch new hub for cybersecurity startups
On 5 March, NUS Enterprise and Singtel Innov8 jointly launchedSingapore’s first integrated regional cybersecurity hub to kick-start and support early stage and growing start-ups, entrepreneurs and academics worldwide. NUS Enterprise is the entrepreneurial arm of the National University of Singapore, while Singtel Innov8 is a corporate venture capital fund with its own set of decision-making, approval and funding processes and […]
UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund Invests in Seven Companies
UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund (UKI2S) , formerly known as Rainbow Seed Fund, a Harwell, Oxford-based early-stage venture capital fund focused on promising technologies based on the UK’s publicly-funded research, has invested in seven companies. The investment was made via the Government’s Innovate UK (IUK) £8.5m investment accelerator, which combines equity and grant funding to back […]
UChicago invests in tech startup company founded by Chicago Booth alumni
The University of Chicago has announced their next venture investments from the UChicago Startup Investment Program. Ascent Technologies, a regulation technology company that helps users build, manage and automate their compliance programs, received $315,000 from the University as part of their Series A financing rounds. Announced in 2016, the UChicago Startup Investment Program is an initiative in which […]
ASU gets hands-on with student startups, and the community’s economy benefits
Arizona State University welcomes the entrepreneurial and innovative spirits of the world, while simultaneously offering them the perfect location for the development and sustained growth of their wildest ambitions. The impact and reach of this support, however, seems to be unknown to both the local and national community. Chris Samuels, director of communications for the Tempe […]
NMSU LAUNCH team leads commercialization effort with university-developed cardiac technology
There are a wealth of dynamic and industry-altering technologies emerging from New Mexico State University that are ripe for commercialization. Arrowhead Center’s LAUNCH program identifies and supports teams who can lead the way, to catalyze movement from university research to market and contribute to economic growth in the region. LAUNCH is a four-month accelerator […]
Headlines AgSprint Accelerator at NMSU’s Arrowhead Center announces open applications
Southern New Mexico is ripe with agripreneurs – agricultural entrepreneurs – of all varieties. AgSprint, part of the suite of accelerator programs at New Mexico State University’s Arrowhead Center, grows and supports new agtech startups as they blossom in the heart of the desert. Wendy Lu McGill, founder and CEO of Rocky Mountain Micro Ranch, […]
IU creates $15 million Philanthropic Venture Fund to develop innovations, businesses
A newly created evergreen fund managed by the Indiana University Research and Technology Corp. will provide capital to faculty, students and staff at all IU campuses to help them further develop their research and innovations into startup companies. The IU Philanthropic Venture Fund was originally envisioned in the Bicentennial Strategic Plan as part of the university’s continuing […]
New Jersey Health Foundation Awards $50,000 Innovation Grant To Princeton University Researcher
New Jersey Health Foundation (NJHF) has awarded a $50,000 Innovation Grant to Alexander Ploss, Ph.D, assistant professor of Molecular Biology at Princeton University, announced James M. Golubieski, president of NJHF. Dr. Ploss is addressing the urgent need of finding better treatments to combat hepatitis B and E viruses. He will use the funding to investigate novel compounds that inhibit hepatitis […]