Alumni desiring specific avenues for donation; university gap funds and accelerators a good option (from WSJ)
Observation: Timely Wall Street Journal article on the trend of alumni donors to more specific investments. I would suggest that one for the more effective routes is getting these alumni behind future research, education, and innovation, through university gap funding and accelerator programs. In a soon to be released update to the Mind the Gap […]
Accelerating Berkeley startups at SkyDeck | TechCrunch
True to its name, SkyDeck has one of the best views in all of Berkeley. You can UC Berkeley on one side and a wide swath of the bay on the other, with San Francisco just barely peeking through the fog. If nothing else, the accelerator’s killer piece of real estate feels like a physical manifestation of […]
Imperial College London and Central Working provide £250k to six ‘world-saving’ startups
Imperial College ThinkSpace and workspace provider Central Working have awarded a combined £250k to six technology companies as part of the inaugural Scalable Business Awards (SBAs). The startups will receive a year of free White City office space alongside the guidance, business connections and support that comes with Central Working membership. With the capital’s office […]
Johns Hopkins startup gets funding from company turning research into businesses
IP Group, which works with a group of universities and government labs including Hopkins, is providing funding to Lorem Therapeutics. The company is led by Barbara Slusher, a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine professor who directs the university’s largest drug discovery program. It’s the first company to receive funding from the company, though the amount was not disclosed. Lorem Therapeutics is focusing on development […]
U Virginia Ceres hits milestone, receives $5.5M new funding
Ceres Nanosciences (Ceres) is announcing today that it has reached a key product development milestone for its Nanotrap® Lyme Antigen Test System. The Nanotrap® Lyme Antigen Test System will proceed into manufacturing and analytical performance testing this year and is on track for clinical study and FDA submission in 2019. “The Nanotrap® Lyme Antigen Test […]
£750,000 seed funding for University of Leeds spin-out | Insider Media Ltd
Two University of Leeds professors, who have developed software that detects subsidence using satellite data, have launched a new spin-out company supported by £750,000 in seed funding. The investment in SatSense has been provided by NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance which is part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund, Unipart Rail and the University of Leeds. […]
TechAdvance® Fund Advances Rutgers Technologies Toward Commercialization with 22 Awards Totaling $1.45M | Office of Research and Economic Development
Created through Rutgers University’s Office of Research and Economic Development (ORED) to advance early stage technologies invented by Rutgers researchers toward commercialization, the TechAdvance® Fund has awarded $1.45 million to 22 researchers to date. Additionally, the first technology funded by the TechAdvance program has been successfully licensed to a third party. Launched in June 2017, […]
MTRAC Innovation Hub awards $177,000 for applied materials projects
A self-cleaning glass mixture and a transparent conductor are two of the latest projects to win financial support from the state of Michigan’s Innovation Hub program. Four inventions from three of Michigan’s public universities will share more than $177,000 in awards bestowed by the Michigan Translational Research and Commercialization’s applied advanced materials projects hub at […]
Carnegie Mellon and Innovation Works hold ‘venture fair’ for Pittsburgh AI and robotics startups
Pittsburgh’s robotics and artificial intelligence sectors are gaining more attention than ever before, thanks to continued interest from tech giants like Facebookand Google, which opened offices there, as well as local university Carnegie Mellon’s recent announcement that it will be offering the nation’s first undergraduate degree in artificial intelligence. But startups in the area still face the same challenges […]
Alumni Association invests in Penn State-related startups
The Penn State Alumni Association will invest in the future of Penn State entrepreneurs and technology startups — including those launched by Penn State alumni, students and faculty — through a $500,000 commitment to 1855 Capital. The $10 million-plus 1855 Capital Fund provides seed and early-stage venture capital to Penn State affiliated startups. It develops […]