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Minnowtech raises $600K seed round, supported by U Maryland Momentum Fund
Aquaculture tech company Minnowtech closed on $600,000 in seed financing with an eye on bringing its system for imaging shrimp to the Southeast Asian market. The round included a $150,000 joint investment from the Maryland Momentum Fund, which is the venture fund of
Status Update: U California Riverside ‘wet lab’ opens for startups and local entrepreneurs
By definition incubators foster growth, and that’s what officials at UC Riverside hope its newest scientific project will do. The school’s Wet Lab Incubator opened its doors to the Inland Empire’s entrepreneurial community at a ribbon-cutting ceremony Oct. 21. The
IU Philanthropic Venture Fund invests $250,000 in Qumulex, a cloud-based security solution provider
IU Ventures has invested $250,000 in Qumulex, a company poised to transform the video surveillance and access control industry by unifying video surveillance and access control with cloud storage and accessibility. The investment is part of a Series Seed II funding round.
The Venture Accelerator at UCLA Anderson to Host Biannual Showcase at Google
The Venture Accelerator at UCLA Anderson, the university’s newest and most prolific business startup program, will take center stage at the Google Venice campus on November 6, 2019 from 5:00-7:30pm. The top companies will present to an audience of angel
U Hawaii pairs nationally recognized startup accelerator, entrepreneurship program
To further facilitate the commercialization of technology and innovation developed across its 10-campuses, the University of Hawaiʻi recently decided to internally house its nationally recognized startup accelerator and changed its name to the UH Ventures Accelerator. The revamped program, under the UH Office of the Vice
Innovative ideas are supercharged at Texas Tech Red Raider Accelerator
Braxton Manley wanted to create “really cool Apple Watch bands” because his was boring and uncomfortable. Nine-year-old Cooper Williams wanted a way to track the ice cream truck so he could have his money ready when it arrived. Gage Dutkin
Inside Ottawa’s newest startup accelerator
An Ottawa biotech startup that’s finding new ways to regrow skin, bones and even spinal tissue has found a new home in La Cité’s accelerator program – the latest addition to the college’s entrepreneurship program. Spiderwort recently moved into La Factorie
BHF Accelerator Award to boost research at University of Birmingham
The university is one of only six institutions in the UK to be awarded with a BHF Accelerator Award, which encourages pioneering research of the highest calibre. It will bolster the university’s research in atrial fibrillation (AF), heart failure, thrombo-inflammation
FACIT and University of Toronto launch precision medicine company, supported by seed fund
FACIT, a commercialization venture group, together with the University of Toronto (“U of T”), announced the creation of Ontario-based Cellular Analytics (the “Company”). Cellular Analytics is founded upon a proprietary microfluidic platform that enables molecular characterization of cancer at the level of single
NDSU students seeking investors for venture capital fund Pathway Ventures
FARGO – Three North Dakota State University students are seeking to create a $1 million venture capital fund. The founders of Pathway Ventures made their initial public appeal for investors on Wednesday, Oct. 23, at the 1 Million Cups Fargo