IntelliSee Awarded $500,000 in Iowa Economic Development Authority Innovation Funding
IntelliSee has been awarded $500,000 in financial assistance from the Iowa Economic Development Authority as part of Iowa’s Innovation Fund. IntelliSee is an AI-powered risk mitigation platform that allows users to protect against day-to-day risks, like slip and falls, and potentially catastrophic threats, like active shooters. IntelliSee overlays with existing surveillance systems to actively monitor live camera feeds […]
Notre Dame IDEA Center touts startup launches, fundraising in 2022
The IDEA Center at the University of Notre Dame launched 28 startup companies last year. Additionally, the center said the university’s active startups raised more than $86 million in investment funding, a nearly 60% increase over the previous year. Founded in 2017, the IDEA Center creates startups that are primarily based on inventions from Notre […]
Venture Partners launches new startup creator at CU
Hoping to lure entrepreneurs ready to launch startups based on innovations created in research labs at the University of Colorado Boulder. The Embark Deep Tech Startup Creator has been created by Venture Partners at CU Boulder, the commercialization arm of CU, to match business minds outside the university with breakthrough inventions created within its walls — and […]
Washington State U Commercialization Gap Funding awards for 2023
Allison Coffin has devoted her research to understanding how hair cells in the inner ear impact hearing loss. Now Coffin is working to bring her research from the lab to the marketplace with her innovative machine learning predictive model that could help prevent hearing loss. Coffin, associate professor in neuroscience, is one of nine WSU […]
Top prize for Rowan Rohrer New Venture Competition expands to $30,000
Funding for Rowan University’s Rohrer New Venture Competition (NVC) expands this year with a top prize of $30,000, the most ever awarded to a Rowan student start-up. Held each April, the NVC encourages entrepreneurial start-ups across the University and awards winners with capital funding to help launch their business. With the additional equity investment from […]
West Virginia University Technology Transfer office ignites innovation, commercial opportunities for researchers
West Virginia University researchers are consistently coming up with innovations and potential new products to put on the market, a process the university encourages for the economic development of the entire state. Erienne Olesh, executive director of student and faculty innovation at WVU, said one of the largest ways the university impacts the state’s technology […]
LSU, BRAC, NexusLA Present New Startup Accelerator
BATON ROUGE – LSU, BRAC and NexusLA are partnering to create Startup City Launch, a new, 10-week training program to help entrepreneurs turn their ideas into scalable businesses. The program builds upon The Idea Village’s proven IDEAinstitute program that has served over 300 founders in the last four years and is an expansion of the […]
Poets&Quants – Carlson School At The Center Of Entrepreneurship
Steven Kutz made the most of his MBA experience to help launch his business, Common Good Investments LLC. His goal with the venture is to create a non-profit, public, and private partnership to produce built-to-suit housing for the homeless and other vulnerable populations. At the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management, Kutz took classes […]
Cisco sponsors AI and quantum centre at Edinburgh University | Capacity Media
The University of Edinburgh says the launch of the Quantum and AI Centre of Excellence follows several years of close collaboration. Professor Jane Hillston FRS (pictured), head of the School of Informatics, said: “Over the last five years we have developed an extremely successful partnership, with potential benefits across a wide range of applications. Software […]
Will Japan’s new ¥10-trillion MEXT university fund lift research performance?
Large endowment funds underpin the stability and independence of some of the world’s most successful research institutions. Take Harvard University, the leading academic institution globally by Share in the Nature Index. Harvard has one of the world’s largest endowments for an academic institution at more than $50 billion, a sum that allowed the fund to […]