UChicago’s Transform Accelerator for Data Science and Emerging AI Startups Announces Inaugural Cohort
The University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Data Science Institute today announced the inaugural cohort of its new accelerator, Transform. Housed within the new Deep Tech Ventures initiative at the Polsky Center, Transform will provide full-spectrum support, including access to business and technical training, industry mentorship, venture capital connections, and funding opportunities, to early-stage companies utilizing advances in […]
UTRF to Launch Venture Program, Accelerator Fund for UT Startups
The University of Tennessee Research Foundation (UTRF) will create the Venture Launch Program and the Accelerator Fund to bring more UT innovations to the world. “The benefits this kind of program will provide are numerous and invaluable,” said UTRF President Maha Krishnamurthy. “As UTRF looks for ways to support entrepreneurship within UT, this program will […]
Entrepreneurs receive award from K-State Accelerator program
Kansas State University College of Business Administration Accelerator program awards $100,000 to 10 entrepreneurs. Kansas State University announced that 10 entrepreneurs recently pitched their companies to a panel of judges during Demo Day, the culmination of the eight-week Accelerator program hosted by K-State College of Business Administration’s Center for the Advancement of Entrepreneurship. PillReady, Wichita, was the […]
OVPR Makes Largest Investment in Seed Funding in FY 2022-23
The Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) at Stony Brook University has made its largest investment in seed funding over the course of the current fiscal year. Since the summer of 2022, the office has funded 32 projects across the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Renaissance School […]
President’s Innovation Challenge names finalists for 2023
Reimagining how depression is assessed and treated, exploring business applications of generative AI, and developing a novel decarbonization solution, are just a few of the 25 ideas that have been selected as 2023 President’s Innovation Challenge Finalists. The President’s Innovation Challenge is an annual competition where Harvard students and select alumni propel their entrepreneurial projects forward. Participants […]
TEDCO’s Maryland Innovation Initiative Announced Recent Investments
COLUMBIA, Md., March 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — TEDCO, Maryland’s economic engine for technology companies, announced a recent round of funding through the Maryland Innovation Initiative (MII). MII accelerates the commercialization of technologies from bench to market. MII Awards Established in 2012, the MII program was created as a partnership between the State of Maryland and five Maryland academic research institutions: Johns Hopkins University; Morgan State University; University […]
How Venture Capital Can Avoid the Next Silicon Valley Bank Fiasco | WIRED
IN THE PUBLIC imagination, venture capitalists are often seen as independent wealthy actors seeding early-stage companies with their personal money. But the vast majority of VC capital is from “LPs”—or limited partners—including public pensions, university endowments, hospitals, and wealthy families. In other words, venture capitalists manage large sums of other people’s money. This makes them de […]
UC startup gets investment to advance trials
A startup founded by four University of Cincinnati physicians has raised approximately $10 million in funding, including a recent $250,000 investment from St. Elizabeth Healthcare, the Cincinnati Business Courier reported. Medtech startup Sense Neuro Diagnostics is developing noninvasive devices to monitor traumatic brain injuries and detect brain hemorrhage or different stroke types. The investment from St. Elizabeth […]
Allies take further steps to establish NATO Innovation Fund
Participating NATO Allies have recently appointed, by consensus, the first three members of the NATO Innovation Fund Board of Directors: its Chair, Dr. Klaus Hommels, founder and chair of venture capital firm Lakestar; as well as Dame Fiona Murray, Associate Dean of Innovation and Inclusion at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) School of Management; and Dr. Roberto […]
Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator opens Class 3 applications for energy transition ventures
The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship is accepting applications for Class 3 of its Clean Energy Accelerator, the premier energy transition accelerator in Houston, through April 14. Through an active mentor network, extensive investor network and targeted training from experts in the field, the accelerator serves to support the energy transition by helping early-stage ventures achieve technical […]