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University Gap Funding and Accelerator Community News
University of Waterloo VeloCity announces finalists for $100K student start-up award
VeloCity, the University of Waterloo-based campus for entrepreneurially-minded students, has announced that its $100,000 VeloCity Fund Finals will happen on November 28. Ten startups from the University of Waterloo will compete for their share of over $100K in grant funding.
SEC releases “crowdfunding” rule
The “crowdfunding” proposal, if adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission, would be a major shift in how small U.S. companies can raise money in the private securities market. Private companies are currently allowed to solicit only accredited investors –
Yorkshire Innovation Fund helps spin-out companies through Bradford University
Funds are being made available to help smaller firms across Yorkshire collaborate with universities to develop new products, services and processes following a project led by Bradford University. The Yorkshire Innovation Fund has been launched, partly financed by European Union
DMU spinout, CYP Design, lands venture support for drug discovery approach
A firm of venture capitalists has given its backing to technology which could help speed up the discovery of new drugs and medicines. Leading start-up funder Mercia Fund Management has invested in CYP Design Ltd, a spin-out company from the Leicester
Australian venture capital growing and set for a shake up as the start-up sector matures
A strong and growing start-up sector and the international rise of crowd-sourced equity are set to shake up the Australian venture capital ecosystem for the better in coming years. Over 60 venture capital and private equity investors gathered in Sydney
Yale education spin-out, Panorama Education, scores $4M investment
Panorama Education (www.panoramaed.com), which helps K-12 schools improve through data analysis and feedback surveys of teachers, parents and students, announced today that it has raised $4M in seed funding. The round was co-led by Mark Zuckerberg’s Startup:Education and Jeff Clavier’s
Glaxo calls on government to support 1B commercialization fund
The government should create a £1bn fund to help university researchers work with small businesses to turn promising ideas into money-spinning inventions, according to GlaxoSmithKline‘s chief executive, Sir Andrew Witty.
Technical and community colleges claim their position in the future of innovation
You don’t have to have hundreds of millions of dollars in research expenditures, expansive research equipment and facilities, or a thick curriculum catalog to win in the world of innovation. Recently, leaders at technical and community colleges are beginning to
Wake Forest University need for gap funding increases
Scientists are creatures of patience. They wait for results, they wait for tenure and, perhaps hardest of all, they wait for funding. Grant limbo — the blank space between one source of funding and the indefinite start of another —
Cambridge University launches £50m spinout fund
Cambridge University has created a £50m technology investment company, backed by Arm Holdings and some of the city’s leading institutional investors, to help some of its most promising spinout companies. The fund is a recognition by the university of the critical need