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University Gap Funding and Accelerator Community News
$35M OSU-OU venture capital fund ready to launch
Three years after its unveiling, the $35 million venture-capital fund being pooled by Ohio State University and Ohio University is taking concrete steps toward launching. The OSU-OU Innovation Fund has selected a managing partner and expects to announce the pick
$500K grant will drive innovation at Penn State TechCelerator
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker announced that the TechCelerator@State College is among the first of 26 recipients of the 2014 Regional Innovation Strategies program grants. Penn State received a $500,000 i6/Cluster Grant for Seed Capital Funds to further develop the
With GAP fundng, UI professor creates urgent seizure treatment device
When an individual with epilepsy has a seizure, he or she needs quick delivery of an anticonvulsant drug. That’s why Max Baker, UI associate professor in the anesthesia department, has been working for two years on a rapid, easy-to-use, buccal
Wichita State to host $2.5 billion technology seed fund event April 30
Area innovators, entrepreneurs, researchers and small technology firms are invited to take advantage of a special opportunity as Wichita State University hosts the SBIR Road Tour from 7:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Thursday, April 30, on the second floor of the Rhatigan
U.S. Commerce Secretary Announces $10 Million in Grants to Advance Innovation Across America
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today announced the first 26 recipients of the 2014 Regional Innovation Strategies program grants. The Regional Innovation Strategies (RIS) program, which is being run by the Department’s Economic Development Administration’s (EDA) Office of Innovation
Albany Medical Center to receive $520,000 for biomedical accelerator, seed fund
Albany Medical Center will receive more than $520,000 in federal grants from the U.S. Economic Development Administration to support biomedical research and commercialization of new medical products and technologies. In a statement, U.S. Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand said
Connecticut Bioscience Innovation Fund award $954,000 to MS test, cancer treatment
The state’s technology investment agency has invested nearly $1 million into a pair of university-based biotechnology research projects, including one at Yale, in an effort to speed their commercialization. Officials with Connecticut Innovations said Tuesday that the Connecticut Bioscience Innovation
Celgene, Eli Lilly to back $150M fund alongside NYC to invest in biotech
An unusual public-private venture capital fund targeting the biosciences is launching in New York with $150 million to deploy, three times the original goal. The Early-Stage Life Sciences Funding Initiative (a refreshingly literal name for tech investment funds) combines $10
Purdue Krannert students realize returns through startup venture fund
Purdue University students are acquiring real-world business experience by performing due diligence on startups applying for funding from the Emerging Innovations Fund, an evergreen fund created to accelerate the commercialization of Purdue’s early-stage innovations. The Krannert School of Management’s “Student
NJHF commits additional $1 million to fund research and innovation grants in N.J.
The New Jersey Health Foundation, a New Brunswick-based nonprofit that funds health research and innovation, on Monday announced a new $1 million funding round, $500,000 of which will fund a new collaboration with Newark-based Nicholson Foundation to help researchers commercialize