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The University Gap Funding/Accelerator Weekly update, a resource for those interested in university-affiliated translational research, proof of concept, startup, and venture gap fund/accelerator program
University Gap Funding and Accelerator Community News
Crowdfunding campaign from University of California enlists movie stars, politicians
In an unusual effort to bolster financial aid for undergraduates, UC on Wednesday publicly launched an online crowdfunding campaign that has movie stars, politicians, students and faculty pledging to host parties, lead hikes, sing rap songs and work in soup
U Houston Cougar Fund launches $1M student venture fund
The University of Houston has waded into the venture capital market. Administrators have launched the new Cougar Venture Fund this fall as part of its entrepreneurship curriculum for graduate business students. “The goal is to teach students in an entrepreneurial
U Penn’s Graduate School of Education launches $2.1M hybrid fund for education innovation
Philadelphia, PA, September 18, 2013 – Penn’s Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE) has announced that the Education Design Studio, Inc. (EDSi), a $2.1 million hybrid incubator and seed fund built specifically for education ventures, will launch September 23 in Philadelphia. The
IDEA funds $34K in student ventures in September
The school year has just begun at Northeastern, but IDEA ventures are already hard at work– and it’s paying off. For its September round of Gap Funding, IDEA has awarded a total of $34,000 to four of its ventures: Bureo, Gapelia, Fresh Truck and Presskit.to.
North Carolina to grant $1.2M from pilot start-up fund next year
Early-stage startups in the Charlotte area now have a new potential source for funding: Innovation Fund North Carolina, a pilot program planning to award up to $1.2 million in grants and loans to high-tech startups around the state over the
Venture Investors LLC raises $80M fund, will invest in university technologies
Venture Investors LLC, the largest and oldest Wisconsin-based venture capital company, will announce Sunday it has $80 million in commitments for a fifth venture capital fund. The Madison firm fell short of the $150 million it set out to raise, but
Innovation Fund cited as reason for increased royalties at University of Houston
Two successful drugs developed at the University of Houston have helped to usher in a new era, one in which moving inventions from the laboratory to the boardroom is increasingly seen as a goal. “We are trying to identify really
Penn State University RAIN grant program backs exciting applied research
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Four research projects with high potential for technology commercialization have received grants through a Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences program designed to spur innovation.
Yale launches new $2.5M YEI Innovation Fund
Yale students and recent students have launched many companies in recent years, from potential game-changers such as forest-monitoring software developer SilviaTerra and Higher One, the financial services firm for college students, to the distinctly urban cardboard furniture maker, Chairigami. Now
Georgia Tech launches a crowdfunding site
Allison Jo Mercer, a researcher at Georgia Tech, is developing an adhesive based on a brilliantly sticky fish. Her work could some day translate into Band-Aids that don’t pull your hair out when you rip them off, safer bandages for serious