XLerateHealth Selects Seven Healthcare Startups for 2020 Accelerator Cohort in Louisville, KY
‘-XLerateHealth (XLH), a nationally recognized healthcare accelerator headquartered in Louisville, today announced the selection of seven startup companies to participate in its 10th cohort. This year’s program will be fully virtual to adapt to COVID-19 precautions. XLH’s portfolio of companies have raised in excess of $93M in institutional and non-dilutive funding. “We are pleased to support […]
UCL launches new £100m start-up investment fund
University College London has launched a new £100m investment fund to back university spin-outs developing medical research as well as artificial intelligence (AI) projects. The new UCL Technology Fund is backed by British Patient Capital, as well as UCL itself and other new and existing investors. It will be managed by London-headquartered investment firm AlbionVC. “There […]
‘Culture of innovation’: Topeka looks to capitalize on Plug and Play partnership
In coming weeks and months, Topeka’s Plug and Play accelerator program, which was announced last year, is expected to gain serious momentum. Additional founding partners are set to be announced throughout August. Then, those founding partners will help select the first group of startup companies to participate in the accelerator. And this fall, they’ll begin […]
Northern Accelerator launches GBP1.7m seed investment fund
The Seed Investment Fund, managed by Northstar Ventures, will officially launch on 4 August, with the first deals to be completed in the next two months, and further funding allocated over a 12-month period. The fund will make significant investments in businesses with the best commercial ideas and high growth potential in a targeted group […]
Jeanne Hossenlopp: Innovation — A vision for advancing research
Chemistry is Jeanne Hossenlopp’s stock in trade. But to describe her simply as a chemist is like calling Mozart a piano player. The diversity of her skills, interests and accomplishments set her apart. Hossenlopp joined the faculty of Marquette University in 1989, two years after earning her doctorate in physical chemistry from Syracuse University and immediately following a […]
Starting a science business during a pandemic
What a time to start a business. Lab and university shutdowns, travel restrictions, stay-at-home orders, nervous investors, and social distancing—the novel coronavirus has created a lot of uncertainty. How can scientific entrepreneurs plan and execute what may be the biggest move of their professional lives when no one even knows what next week is going to […]
Venture Capital Makes Talent Unaffordable for Start Ups’ Competitors | Institutional Investor
Assistant finance professor Linghang Zeng noticed a few years ago just how much computer programmers seemed to be getting paid. “The salaries in IT went up quite dramatically in the last decade or two,” Zeng observed. “When programmers go out to find jobs, they are typically going to have multiple offers. Naturally, they ask those […]
What Startup Funding Will Look Like in a Post-Covid-19 World
The first challenge facing startups in America, Europe and the rest of the world is to survive the pandemic. Not many have survived, and many others have hibernated while the storm has lasted. The fortitude to restart after such a huge blow can be even harder to come by than the fortitude they needed to start in the first place. […]
University startup ecosystems could help economic recovery
In the wake of the pandemic, mass unemployment looks inevitable: corporations are now facing decisions that could make many of their middle-tier staff — literally millions of jobs — redundant. Every single action in response to pandemic recovery is time sensitive. If we don’t invest in venture growth and reskilling at scale now, we will […]
The four pillars of a successful science spin-off company-Nature
A successful entrepreneur has to pull things together and influence people. They need to be able to raise money, be good at presenting ideas and building trust, and know how to lead and inspire a team. In my part-time role as entrepreneur in residence at the Francis Crick Institute in London, I mentor scientists taking […]