Two Brandeis Spark Teams Accepted into the 2022 MassChallenge Cohort
Brandeis Spark, the university’s startup accelerator, is proud to announce that two of its teams were accepted into the 2022 MassChallenge cohort. MassChallenge, based in Boston with additional locations in Rhode Island, Texas, Israel, Mexico, and Switzerland, is a non-profit, zero equity accelerator supporting more than 400 startups from around the world and across industries each […]
Pittsburgh Inno – Pittsburgh tech startups collectively raise $103.8 million during second quarter
During the second quarter of 2022, 19 Pittsburgh tech companies raised a combined $103.8 million from venture capitalists, economic development entities, corporate investors and high-net-worth individuals. It handily topped the second-quarter dollars in 2021 and 2020, but was also the lowest three-month tally in a year, according to data from the PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor. The […]
Ex-Google chief’s venture aims to save neglected science software
See whether this sounds familiar: you build a piece of software to solve a research question. But when you move on to the next project, there’s no one to maintain it. As it ages, it becomes obsolete, and the next academic to tackle a similar problem finds themselves having to reinvent the wheel. That’s what […]
Emory University student venture fund is raising a new generation of investors | TechCrunch
Last year, a small group of Emory University graduate students at Goizueta Business School in Georgia began to examine the challenge of getting Black and other historically underrepresented founders access to capital. One way to do that, they reckoned, was to raise a generation of investors who would pay more attention to these groups. The idea […]
Bridging the gap between student to full-time entrepreneur | University of Waterloo
Beyond Velocity’s well-known incubator in Kitchener’s innovation district, Velocity supports more than 5,000 students per year through on-campus programs, such as Zero, Problem Lab and Cornerstone, designed to give University of Waterloo students an early start in entrepreneurship and create experiences to build key skills for any career path. Introduced during the pandemic, the Cornerstone program helps the most advanced […]
Spinning out science startups: UW’s Institute for Protein Design brings research beyond ivory tower
The Institute for Protein Design is an innovation factory. Since launching a decade ago, the University of Washington institution has grown to about 200 researchers and spun out eight startups wielding protein-design software to forge new drugs, vaccines, and enzymes. IPD spinouts have collectively raised more than $1 billion and helped fuel a biotech boom in Seattle, […]
Global Venture Funding Dipped $10 Billion in February/17% lower in Early Stage
Global venture capital funding showed signs of a slowdown in February, with startup investors pouring $10 billion less into companies than they did in January, according to Crunchbase data. VC investors globally cut $52 billion in checks last month, down 16% from $62 billion in January, per Crunchbase. While the $52 billion figure still represents a […]
Mayo Clinic launches AI startup program to help early-stage companies get market-ready | Fierce Healthcare
Mayo Clinic launched its artificial intelligence startup program this week with four early-stage health tech companies. The 20-week program, called Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate, aims to help AI-based startups get market-ready by offering access to Mayo Clinic experts in regulatory, clinical, technology and business domains with a focus on AI model validation and clinical readiness. The program also […]
3 alumni-founded startups claim cash prizes at Rice University pitch competition
hree startups founded by Rice University graduates have won investment prizes at an annual pitch competition. The annual H. Albert Napier Rice Launch Challenge, or NRLC, welcomed a panel of judges to hear from six alumni-founded startups in the finals last week. The prizes on the line totaled $65,000 in equity-free funding. The event, which […]
UC Venture Lab ignites surge in startups, investment dollars | University Of Cincinnati
By two key measures, the Cincinnati Innovation District (CID) is demonstrating success at an accelerated pace in developing entrepreneurial talent. More than $100 million in investment dollars has been achieved at the University of Cincinnati through initiatives led by the Office of Innovation, including the Venture Lab program and Tech Transfer. The Venture Lab program […]