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University Gap Funding and Accelerator Community News
$ 2B University of Virginia Funding to Propel Strategic Investments in Academic, Research and Health Care Excellence
The University of Virginia today announced the history of the strategic fund that will provide transformational investments in the quality of a UVA education, of its research and of its health care services without relying on tuition or tax dollars.
Alaska Launches Tech Accelerator Fund
“Diversify the economy” is Alaska’s rallying cry as oil production and prices sink. First of its kind Alaska tech accelerator Launch: Alaska wants to put the idea into action with the hot-ticket item of booming Lower 48 metro areas. The
Sacramento devotes $10 million to high-tech firms, but plan faces risks
When the City Council approved a $10 million fund for high-tech investments last month, Sacramento joined a handful of municipalities across the country hoping to buy their way into the economy of the future with public money. Philadelphia, Portland, Ore.,
University of Albany Presidential Innovation Fund for Research and Scholarship
In support of this aim, the University announced the creation of the Presidential Innovation Fund for Research and Scholarship (PIFRS) program last year to stimulate new cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research. Now in its second year, this $500,000 competitive, peer reviewed, seed
Chicago Impact Engine Launches $10M Fund, Betting Capitalists Can Do Well While Doing Good
Some dismiss social impact entrepreneurship as a feel-good diversion. But a group of successful investors in Chicago are throwing $10 million on the table to prove that capitalists can do well while doing good. Impact Engine today announced a $10
London start-up scene weighs threat of British Techxit
Britain’s tech start-up scene was having a bumper year in terms of new company creation, fresh funding and acquisitions by global tech players before voters decided to leave the European Union in Thursday’s referendum. Now high-profile companies are threatening to
$24.9M New Zealand Start-up fund recipients announced
Start-up fund recipients announced Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce today announced the successful recipients of the 2016 PreSeed Accelerator Fund. “This fund supports the commercialisation of publicly funded research technologies to the point where new companies can be formed
Senators introduce bipartisan bill to support U.S. research and education
The U.S. science community got a big pat on the back today from members of the Senate commerce and science committee. The senators delivered their encouraging message in the form of a bipartisan bill that would reauthorize programs at the
Purdue Develops New Strategy for Drug Discovery
Research scientists often confront the “valley of death”—the gaping hole that exists between laboratory discoveries and their transformation into new medical treatments and products. And the most lethal factor for most researchers is money. However, Purdue University is blazing an
Chinese Tsinghua to Start R&D Fund, 1,000 Incubators in Innovation Push
Tsinghua Holdings will invest no less than 50 billion yuan ($7.6 billion) in research over five years and set up a fund to help commercialize scientific discoveries, Chairman Xu Jinghong said in an interview. The company, a state-owned enterprise that