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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
New grants to help UCF, Canvs launch $5M seed fund – Orlando Sentinel
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker visited campus in person to unveil the new matching grants: $500,000 from the i6 Challenge program and just under $250,000 from the Regional Innovation Strategies Program. Pritzker said UCF is one of two universities
MassDevelopment issued a $175000 revolving bridge loan from the Emerging Technology Fund
MassDevelopment issued a $175,000 revolving bridge loan from the Emerging Technology Fund to Dynamo Micropower Corporation. Dynamo Micropower Corporation is a privately-held developer and manufacturer of fuel-flexible micro-turbine based power generation systems for the oil and gas industry, located in
Connecting Gap Funding to Institutional Impact
We are developing a construct for aligning gap funding (and other tactical) university commercialization programs to the core missions of the institutions they serve—research, education, societal benefit. Please add you comments and we will update this presentation with impact measures
Tech Launch Arizona Hosts Summit of Leaders to Advance the Impact of Innovation
The process of taking inventions from university research and turning them into patents that can be converted into products and startup companies is long and complex. Given the uniqueness of each university’s research environment and its surrounding ecosystem of businesses,
U-M spinoff Arborlight gets $1.7M in VC funding to commercialize new lighting technology
Arborlight wants every indoor space to be able to reap the benefits of natural — or as close to natural — sunlight, and thanks to a $1.7 million venture capital investment, the company is one step closer to that goal.
Penn faculty startup raises $100K from city’s StartUp PHL fund
The City of Philadelphia’s StartUp PHL angel fund has invested $100,000 in Penn faculty startup Gencore Systems. It’s the first time that the fund, run by First Round Capital’s Josh Kopelman, has backed a startup built on research done at a local university.