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UW-Milwaukee battery spinout SafeLi rebrands as COnovate, lands $50K investment
COnovate, Inc., a Shorewood company developing materials for lithium ion batteries, is receiving $50,000 in a seed investment from BrightStar Wisconsin Foundation, the Milwaukee-based nonprofit and an early-stage investment organization. COnovate was formerly known as SafeLi LLC, a startup founded
Pilots over pitches: how to accelerate growth through corporate-startup collaboration
“Always be pitching” has been the startup mantra for years, and for good reason. Pitching helps improve and validate ideas, understand customers, and accelerate learning on a consistent basis, so your company can build the right product. But over-investing in
UNeTech levels the playing field for high-risk, high-reward tech startups
The “valley of death” is a term used in the startup community to refer to the dreaded gap between the discovery of promising new technologies and the bringing to market of commercially viable new products based on those technologies. It is
Purdue Ag-Celerator invests $100,000 in DISCOVER startup
The Purdue Ag-Celerator has invested a total of $100,000 in a Purdue University startup for the fall round of investment. The recipient is DISCOVER (DIagnostic Sensors for Cause of bOVinE Respiratory disease), a startup created by Mohit Verma, an assistant professor of agricultural
Montana State University student entrepreneurs secure business funding at annual startup challenge
All four teams of Montana State University student entrepreneurs who competed at a startup competition held this fall earned awards and funding to support their ventures. The students were competing in the 31st annual John Ruffatto Business Startup Challenge, which
Deerfield Launches a Novel Funding Mechanism, the X-Seed Award
Deerfield Management Company, a New York City-based healthcare investment firm, today announced the launch of the X-Seed Award, a new program designed to support early-stage life science startups. Award winners will be women and other minority founders in New York
Embracing Entrepreneurship: Faculty and students apply business mindset to reach personal, professional goals at Rowan University
From Art to Engineering and from Music to Medicine, Rowan University faculty and students are adopting an entrepreneurial mindset to achieve goals both inside the classroom and long after students complete their degree. Following a tone set by President Ali
Binghamton University awarded SUNY Prepare Innovation Grants to pursue COVID-19 research
BINGHAMTON, NY—The State University of New York has awarded grants to three teams at Binghamton University to pursue research projects related to COVID-19 as part of its new Prepare Innovation and Internship Program. “It is a great privilege for our students
FSU GAP competition supports researchers moving from laboratory to marketplace
A method to improve testing for E. coli in beef and a system for evaluating a product used to reinforce pavement earned funding through a Florida State University program that supports researchers who are bringing their academic work to the marketplace. FSU’s
Is Silicon Valley losing its shine? Venture capitalists find no clear alternative.
This year, the partners at Founders Fund — a prominent San Francisco venture capital firm that has backed Airbnb, Palantir Technologies and other leading companies — took an informal internal poll: If the fund could open a major new office