Princeton innovation funds support research in robotics, machine learning, climate resilience and more
Princeton Engineering researchers are starting new projects to boost biofuel production by studying microbes from extreme environments, abate urban heat islands through machine learning, and develop new kinds of deployable wings for robots — all funded by the latest round of innovation grants from the school. The engineering school awarded more than $2.4 million in […]
Madrona Venture Labs announces $11M round to fund pre-seed AI founders
Madrona Venture Labs (MVL), a pre-seed startup incubator-of-sorts based in Seattle, Washington that bills itself as “an enterprise AI startup studio … for founders, by founders” has secured $11 million for its fifth fund, with a focus on empowering the next generation of AI founders. The funding round was led by sibling firm, the mighty Seattle giant Madrona Venture […]
Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator announces Class 3 ventures
Fifteen new energy ventures that are building technologies to accelerate the energy transition will work with the Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator as part of the third cohort of the program. The annual 10-week program kicks off on July 25 and will conclude with a Demo Day alongside the 20th Annual Rice Alliance Energy Tech Venture Forum […]
OSU startup receives investment from venture capital firm
OSU affiliated startup Titan Intake Inc. recently received a strategic investment from Tulsa-based venture capital firm 46VC. Titan Intake, a Tulsa-based software company, has developed a unique platform designed to automate the process of patient intake and referrals. Unlike the traditional way of sending referrals by fax machine, Titan deploys a full suite of tools that allows capture […]
NewHaptics Raises Growth Capital From The Accelerate Blue Fund
NewHaptics, an innovative tactile display technology company, announced it has raised growth capital from the Accelerate Blue Fund. This represents the Company’s first round of venture funding, and is a meaningful milestone towards commercializing an affordable refreshable braille and tactile graphics display. “We are excited to partner with Accelerate Blue in order to further our […]
Nine Faculty Receive Provost’s Faculty Fellows Seed Grant Funding
Nine North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University faculty have received a portion of $225,000 in seed grant funding through the new Provost’s Faculty Fellows opportunity. Launched by North Carolina A&T’s Office of the Provost, Title III, and Division of Research, the Provost’s Faculty Fellows program was created to support faculty who are pursuing innovative […]
Oxford spin-out OXCCU raises US$22.8M to transform carbon dioxide into sustainable aviation fuel
OXCCU, a company spun-out from the University of Oxford in 2021 that is focused on converting carbon dioxide and hydrogen into industrial and consumer products (earlier post), completed an £18-million (US$22.8 million) Series A financing round. The round was led by Clean Energy Ventures with participation from investors Aramco Ventures; Eni Next, the corporate venture arm of […]
Student-Led NYU Impact Investment Fund Invests in Startup
The student-led NYU Impact Investment Fund (NIIF) has successfully completed its fourth investment with a $30,000 investment in EdVisorly, a Black- and female- founded business that has developed a community college-to-university platform, empowering community college students to connect with a university and achieve a bachelor’s degree. EdVisorly is NIIF’s latest annual investment in four years. “We are very proud […]
UMass Announces $250,000 in Technology Development Fund Awards
New technologies aimed at improving prostate cancer diagnosis, enhancing employment services for job seekers with disabilities, and optimizing clinical use treatments for melanoma patients could get closer to market thanks to $250,000 in seed funding announced today by the University of Massachusetts. Ten faculty research projects, including a research team from UMass Boston’s Institute for […]
Stanford launches fund to bring campus innovations to industry
Every year, hundreds of new inventions are disclosed to the Stanford University Office of Technology Licensing (OTL), but only a fraction get licensed to a commercial entity or attract investment. A new initiative of OTL, the High Impact Technology (HIT) Fund, hopes to bridge the gap between the academic lab and the market, where those discoveries can […]