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Norfolk biotech startup to get $150,000 loan from city’s new “Innovation Fund”
A startup that’s developing implantable devices to help regenerate injured tissue is the first recipient under Norfolk’s “Innovation Fund.” Embody LLC, founded in 2014, will get a $150,000 loan from the new venture-capital fund, which aims to help growing technology,
U Iowa diagnostics company gets $5.1 million of financing from state funding, other
VIDA Diagnostics of Coralville has completed $5.1 million of new investment funding, which will help commercialize the company’s lung imaging software and associated precision services. The funding was led by Chartline Capital Partners of Wilmington, Del., Rittenhouse Ventures of Philadelphia
Fred Hutch’s new Evergreen Fund to promote commercialization of research into lifesaving therapies
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center announced its first-ever grants from its newly established Evergreen Fund to spur researchers’ efforts to advance bold ideas toward creating or partnering with a commercial entity. A total of $1 million was awarded to eight
Here’s what’s next for The W Fund, an early-stage venture fund focused on university spin-outs
Since The W Fund launched more than four years ago in Seattle, it has invested $20 million across 17 early-stage companies that spun out of the University of Washington and other research institutions across the state. Now, as the venture capital
Inova launches investment fund to find personalized medicine innovators
Inova Health System, the giant nonprofit hospital network serving Northern Virginia, is creating a new start-up incubator and investment program focusing on “personalized” medicine innovations. Executives say they plan to invest at least $100 million over the next three to
Berkshire invests in commercialisation of UK university research
The UK’s £1.9bn (€2.3bn) Royal County of Berkshire Pension Fund is to invest £15m in a new fund aiming to direct institutional capital into the commercialisation of UK university research. The local authority pension fund committed the £15m to the
UT Research Foundation Announces Maturation Fund Recipients for 2017
Improved wireless charging technology for consumer electronics, development of higher-value-added material from waste produced during biofuel production, and novel materials for 3-D printing are among the recipients of this year’s maturation funding from the University of Tennessee Research Foundation, announced
EPFL startups raise record $393M in outside capital in 2016
Companies linked to the Lausanne-based tech university raised 397 million francs ($393m) in 2016, smashing the previous record set in 2014, of 242 million francs, EPFL said in a statement. The funds were raised by spin-offs created as a result
Israeli VC Pitango launches its 7th early-stage fund of $175M | TechCrunch
Pitango Venture Capital, one of the most active VCs in the Israeli startup scene, has announced its seventh fund, Pitango Venture Capital 7. The fund will have $175 million under management, and invest from seed upwards. The new fund focuses
Campus Capital Launches £2M Venture Capital Fund
Campus Capital, a Sheffield, UK-based new venture capital firm, is launching its first £2m fund. The firm, which builds “on campus” investment funds with universities, has signed up the University of Sheffield as its first partner. It is also in