Baylor University Hosts 10 Finalists from Universities Across the World for its Global New Venture Competition
Baylor University’s Hankamer School of Business will host its seventh annual New Venture Competition Feb. 23-24 at the Paul L. Foster Campus for Business and Innovation, 1621 S. Third St. The competition is a two-day business plan and elevator pitch competition promoting student entrepreneurship. Competitors from accredited universities across the globe receive expert feedback, coaching […]
NextStep Robotics gets investment from U Maryland Momentum Fund
NextStep Robotics, a startup which makes a device to treat foot drop, closed on $750,000 in new funding, said CEO Brad Hennessie. The Baltimore-based company is the second to receive investment from the Maryland Momentum Fund, which was created by the University System of Maryland to back startups based on technology developed at the state schools. The Maryland […]
Rochester ED $5 million fund supports start-up companies
For the past five years, the Rochester Economic Development Fund has been striving to create new local jobs by financing business start-ups, like GoRout and Vyraid. The fund, financed with $5 million of local-option sales-tax dollars, has doled out more than $2.5 million in loans, investments and grants to 15 early stage companies and business […]
University of Akron, Ocius Technologies team receive $1.5 million award from DARPA
Ocius Technologies LLC and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Akron announce the receipt of a $1.5 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II award in collaboration with Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). This award will fund research over a three-year period that […]
The University City Science Center is backing development of NJIT’s novel bone graft tech
Treena Arinzeh, director of NJIT’s Tissue Engineering and Applied Biomaterials Laboratory, has been awarded a grant from the University City Science Center in Philadelphia to help commercialize technology she is developing to reduce the recovery time and cost associated with bone grafts. Arinzeh received $100,000 from the Science Center’s QED Proof-of-Concept Program, which NJIT is […]
Johns Hopkins, University of Maryland, Betamore seek 5 health startups for new accelerator
Betamore, Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures and the University of Maryland, Baltimore are looking for five local digital health, bio-health or life sciences companies to participate in a new collaborative accelerator program. The application period for Trajectory Next is now open. The new 12-week training program will run from April 1 through June 15. The new […]
Arrowhead Center at NMSU selects seven companies for HealthSprint accelerator program
A diverse and visionary cohort of health industry entrepreneurs are about to begin the next phase of their startup journey in southern New Mexico. HealthSprint – a new health technology accelerator program at Arrowhead Center, the entrepreneurship and innovation hub at New Mexico State University – has selected seven startup companies to participate in a […]
Techcelerator start-up programme opens doors in Romania
A new acceleration programme that is addressed to Romanian technology startups was launched in the capital Bucharest and the city of Cluj-Napoca. Techcelerator will give funds for the development of companies in the pre-acceleration phase through an exclusive partnership with GapMinder, a venture capital fund recently launched in Romania. The programme runs over a 10-week […]
Science Center’s QED Program Awards $600,000 to Advance the Commercialization of Three University Technologies
Researchers improving the efficiency of bone graft procedures, developing drugs to address treatment-resistant cancer, and advancing research to reverse the invasive potential of cancerous cells will receive a total of $600,000 from the University City Science Center’s QED Proof-of-Concept Program. The program, started in 2009 and now in its tenth round of funding, supports novel […]
[COA Member] Wayne State University TechTown Business Incubator Program to Get Grant Extension
Grant funding is being extended for a program in Detroit that supports a business startup accelerator for students. TechTown’s Detroit Technology Exchange Business Incubator will receive a $250,000 extension. The funding is part of more than $1.7 million in extensions approved by the Michigan Strategic Fund. The TechTown program also supports an entrepreneur-in-residence placement program and integrated […]