BRIDGING THE GAP

Now in its second year, the Embark Deep Tech Startup Creator, offered by Venture Partners at CU Boulder, matches business minds outside the university with breakthrough inventions created within its walls and provides funding for those ventures. The application for entrepreneurs...

UTokyo Innovation Platform (UTokyo IPC for short), the University of Tokyo’s answer to Stanford’s StartX incubator, announced in April that its 1stRound deep-tech startup support program has signed an agreement with Cyber Valley, a research consortium in the fields of AI and robotics based in...

AUSTIN, Texas — Discovery to Impact at The University of Texas at Austin has invested $250,000 in NALA Membranes, a UT-affiliated startup advancing water purification through the development of a new class of game-changing chlorine-tolerant membranes for reverse osmosis industrial...

Drexel University has selected the three University-affiliated startups to receive support from the second cohort of its Innovation Fund. AER Cosmetics, a sustainable cosmetics brand founded by a Drexel student, and 1DNano, a nanomaterial cleantech company; and MXene, Inc., a...

Tina Quigley, president and CEO of the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance, had her reservations about LOCATE Las Vegas. The initiative, which entrusted the developmental authority with courting 17 global company leaders in hopes of attracting them to Southern Nevada,...

On May 1, the UND Center for Innovation held the Runway Accelerator Showcase at the Memorial Union’s Social Stair on the University campus. Five students presented their startups and the progress they are making through participation in the Runway Accelerator...

The board of directors of state-funded research grant organization NCInnovation will hear research grant proposals from seven state universities, including the University of North Carolina Wilmington, for its pilot funding round on May 14. The group’s board will hear and approve grants...

In the 12 years since its inception, Leukogene Therapeutics Inc. has had one goal: to take an idea from the academic lab into the real world where it can benefit patients. With a new cancer vaccine platform designed to stimulate...

The Wond’ry recently hosted its first Faculty BioMedical Ideator cohort. The program curriculum was based around the Sullivan Family Ideator Program, which helps aspiring university-affiliated innovators (students, staff, faculty and alumni) evaluate and develop their ideas by teaching an evidence-based...