Israel-Colorado Innovation Fund invests in startup
The Israel-Colorado Innovation Fund has made an investment in the Israeli startup Kando. Kando monitors wastewater in real-time through a cloud-based software solution that tracks and monitors key wastewater quality parameters, making it ideal for wastewater utilities to gain insight into their system dynamics. While owning a building seems like something every successful business should […]
VC fund for food-tech in Israel signs Cornell partnership
Medstrada, a new venture capital fund focused exclusively on food technology, was opened in Tel Aviv by former senior Pitango Venture Capital life sciences partner Ruti Alon. UNCOVER ISRAEL – Get the ISRAEL21c Weekly Edition free by email Sign Up Now! The fund is still raising capital but has announced its first cooperation agreement with […]
SMU venture fund invests in travel company
Associates with the Saint Mary’s University Venture-Grade fund made their first investment on Tuesday, and they’re just getting started. “Students don’t just learn on paper,” says John Yu, 23. “Students learn by doing.” Yu, along with others taking part in the university’s student-raised venture capital investment, gathered at Volta Labs’ new offices inside the Maritime […]
New £400,000 program to support data-driven biomedical start-ups
Innovate UK is investing £400,000 to launch KQ Labs, an accelerator programme at the Francis Crick Institute to support start-ups working at the interface between biomedical and data science. The programme will be run by the Crick with Innovate UK funding, taking advantage of the Crick’s excellence in biomedical science and collaborations with other scientific […]
DexCom’s Acquisition of TypeZero Technologies Marks First Exit For University of Virginia Licensing & Ventures Group Seed Fund
The University of Virginia Licensing & Ventures Group (UVA LVG) Seed Fund has exited from TypeZero Technologies, Inc. following the recent announcement of DexCom, Inc.’s acquisition of the company. DexCom, a publicly traded company, headquartered in San Diego, Calif., is the leader in continuous glucose monitoring for people with diabetes. TypeZero’s products include software for […]
Amazon’s Alexa Fund Fellowship adds 14 more universities for Innovation Fellowships
Amazon today announced the expansion of the Alexa Fund Fellowship, adding 14 new university partners, including MIT, University of Cambridge, and Dartmouth University. As part of the expansion, the Alexa Graduate Fellowship and Alexa Innovation Fellowship were also introduced. Participating education institutions will use the funding to support novel applications of voice technology, advances in […]
NC State Chancellor’s Innovation Fund-Out of the Lab and Into the World
Groundbreaking research happens every day at NC State, and a growing number of important technologies are making the leap from lab to marketplace. It’s no surprise that adequate funding is crucial to this transition. While grants and other funding may initiate research and get the ball rolling, there’s a real need for continued funding to take something […]
UC Berkeley startup accelerator gets a boost from venture fund – SFChronicle.com
On the top floor of downtown Berkeley’s tallest building, a space that commands sweeping views from the hills to the bay hums with entrepreneurial activity. In one wing, startup executives meet one-on-one with advisers from UC Berkeley. Around dozens of workbenches, programmers hunch over their computers while small teams of two to five people confer about […]
Indiana University Philanthropic Venture Fund puts $150K into physician-entrepreneur startup
Dr. Kathleen T. Unroe wants to change how nursing homes care for long-stay residents. She has launched Care Revolution, a medical startup, to reduce the number of unnecessary transfers from those facilities to hospitals. “More than 25 percent of long-stay residents are hospitalized annually, which is burdensome to the residents and their families,” said Unroe, an […]
Penn invests $50 million in biotech in a bold bid to build Philly’s innovation cluster
Without fanfare, the University of Pennsylvania has agreed to invest up to $50 million over the next three years in at least 10 biotech companies, the Inquirer has learned. The goal of the pilot program is to convince more local Ph.D.s and M.D.s to establish their companies near the school’s West Philadelphia campus, instead of moving to […]