Purdue startup lands $3.5M investment in Ag AI technology
INDIANAPOLIS — A central Indiana startup specializing in fertility analysis for livestock breeders has received an initial round of funding to further its efforts to provide more edible meat protein. Verility Inc., based in Hancock County, recently closed on the Series A funding worth $3.5 million. The company’s global platform, Fertile-Eyez, helps livestock producers and […]
UCLA Health launches accelerator program to scale up health equity-focused startups | Fierce Healthcare
UCLA Health has launched a new innovation accelerator to help scale up startups that focus on using technology to bridge health equity gaps. UCLA Health’s TechQuity Accelerator is looking for early-stage startups to apply to its first cohort, which launches May 1. The accelerator program was developed in partnership with BioscienceLA and UCLA Biodesign. TechQuity is accepting applications […]
Seed grants to fund projects that tackle huge scientific, societal challenges | Penn State University
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State’s Institute for Computational and Data Sciences awarded this year’s seed grant program, offering funds to Penn State scientists to help them start research projects. The seed grants will fund 14 different proposals from researchers who represent five different colleges and 11 different departments, including several interdisciplinary collaborations that stretch […]
TMC names 3 startups to Houston health tech accelerator
The Texas Medical Center named three companies to its accelerator program. The health tech startups will join the program and make key connections to grow their technology and business. Texas Medical Center Innovation announced this year’s cohort for the TMC Innovation Accelerator for HealthTech. The companies attended TMCi’s boot camp earlier this year before being named to the […]
U Utah PIVOT supported medical tech to be commercialized
Eliksa Therapeutics, a regenerative medicine company developing novel therapeutics for a range of debilitating diseases, announced today it has launched with investments from the University of Utah (U) and Militia Hill Ventures (MHV) to develop and commercialize multiple clinical programs using the regenerative medicine technology developed at the U. Eliksa obtained exclusive rights to amniotic […]
Bloomington tech startup receives Elevate Ventures funding, following investment from Indiana U
Bloomington-based tech startup Prospect XR has received a $20,000 investment from Elevate Ventures Community Ideation Fund. The company builds tools for businesses, communities and individuals to create and manage 3D virtual environments. Brady Anderson and Tyler Hayik founded Prospect XR in 2021 after receiving a grant from Indiana University to research how virtual reality could […]
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 […]