GAP Pipeline Brief: University of Texas at Austin / Supra Elemental Recovery Inc.
Award & Investment Overview Supra Elemental Recovery Inc., a spinout from The University of Texas at Austin, has launched with a $250,000 pre-seed investment from the university’s Discovery to Impact Seed Fund to commercialize a novel platform for recovering high-purity critical minerals from industrial byproducts, mine tailings, and electronic waste. The investment supports early validation […]
Crossroads Health Ventures Secures $21 Million for Life Sciences Innovation Pipeline – Building Indiana Business
Crossroads Health Ventures (CHV) announced its launch of a new early-stage venture fund created to accelerate the growth of Indiana’s life sciences startups and reinforce the state’s global leadership across human, animal, and plant health innovation. The fund has secured more than $21 million in commitments from strategic and institutional partners such as Eli Lilly […]
How the university turns royalties into a self-funding engine for innovation
Every year, university researchers discover potential new drugs, diagnostics, and medical devices that could transform patient care. Yet many of those ideas stall in the “valley of death,” the stretch between a promising experiment and a product mature enough to attract investors or industry partners. Rutgers has spent the past eight years working to change […]
CU Anschutz Department of Ophthalmology Awards 13 Seed Grants to Advance Vision Science Research
Thirteen multidisciplinary research teams with innovative projects to advance vision science have been awarded seed grants by the University of Colorado Anschutz Department of Ophthalmology’s Vision Science Research and Translation Accelerator (VISTA) Program. Seed grants support early-stage research projects, helping researchers build evidence to compete for larger, competitive state and federal grants. Each of these VISTA […]
GAP Insights: Vanderbilt Launches Therapeutic Institute to Transform Translational Research
Vanderbilt University has announced the launch of the Vanderbilt Institute for Therapeutic Advances (VITA), a new interdisciplinary hub designed to redefine drug discovery and biomedical innovation by integrating basic science, artificial intelligence, systems biology, and translational research. Sourced from Vanderbilt University news coverage, VITA is part of the university’s broader Discovery Vanderbilt initiative and builds […]
GAP Pipeline Brief: Oregon Health & Science University / Faculty Excellence and Innovation Awards
Award & Investment Overview Two Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) researchers have been awarded $750,000 in Faculty Excellence and Innovation Awards to support exceptionally creative research with significant potential to advance human health. The awards are distributed over three years through the Silver Family Innovation Fund to accelerate discovery, enable bold scientific exploration, and […]
Tulane alumni-backed venture fund reaches major milestone
A venture fund designed to help Tulane-born startups grow in Louisiana just hit a major funding milestone. 1834 Ventures announced that, less than six months after launching, it has reached 50% of its $20 million target fund size with anchor funding from the Collins C. Diboll Foundation and the Priddy Family Foundation. Anchor investors are […]
GAP Pipeline Brief: Indiana University / Gap Fund Awards
Award & Investment Overview Indiana University’s Innovation and Commercialization Office has awarded three researchers with Gap Fund grants totaling $69,000 to support early-stage commercialization activities. The awards — including one at $19,000 from the core Gap Fund and two at $25,000 each from the Lawrence Blatt Endowed Fund for Translational Research — aim to help […]
GAP Pipeline Brief: McGill University / McGill Innovation Fund Round 5
Award & Investment Overview McGill University’s McGill Innovation Fund (MIF) has awarded more than $1 million across multiple early-stage ventures in its fifth round, providing targeted gap funding ranging from $25,000 (Discover) to $50,000 (Develop) to $100,000 (Deploy), with supplemental support for antimicrobial resistance research. This cohort reflects McGill’s portfolio-based model for accelerating research-based innovations […]
Loyola accepts 11 ventures for Baltipreneurs Accelerator
Loyola University Maryland’s Simon Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship accepted 11 new ventures for the center’s 2025-26 Baltipreneurs Accelerator, a four-month part-time program supporting startup businesses and social ventures with training, technical assistance, mentorship, networking, and access to capital. This year’s Baltipreneurs come from a range of industries and include Loyola students as well as entrepreneurs from other […]