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University to help fund future of horticulture research with $400K seed fund
The University of Melbourne will contribute $200,000 alongside the Department of Environment and Primary Industries (DEPI) to establish the Innovation Seed Fund, announced today as part of the Department’s new Horticulture Centre of Excellence. The $400,000 fund will underpin research
This $50M investment fund has money for Maryland health companies it says are being ignored by investors
A new venture fund will target Maryland companies that have been skipped over by other deep-pocketed investors who focus on technology hotbeds like Silicon Valley. BioHealth Innovation Inc. on Tuesday announced its new $50 million BioHealth Gap fund. The fund
University of California Incubators Eager to Scout Startups, Co-Investors for UC Ventures
Fledgling companies at the 20 or so incubators clustered around UC Berkeley, UCSF, and other University of California campuses are well-placed to benefit from the new $250 million venture fund the university system plans to set up next year. But
GSK commits $5M to startups, academics that develop bioelectronics
GlaxoSmithKline has just launched a $5 million Innovation Challenge Fund to advance open-access technology in the bioelectronics space. The funding’s aimed toward biz-savvy academics and startups that are working to create a new class of treatments that aren’t necessarily pills or injections, but
More companies are starting venture divisions
San Francisco startup GoodData raised nearly $26 million in a funding round Thursday, but the lead investor wasn’t a traditional venture capital firm. It was Intel Capital, the global investment organization for the Santa Clara chipmaker. More companies are following Intel’s
U. of Michigan student-led venture funds seeking business plans
The Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business today announced that its three student-led venture funds are all actively seeking business plans to consider in their
First university start-up investments selected by funder techstart Northern Ireland
stablished by Invest Northern Ireland as part of its Access to Finance strategy, techstart NI is providing support for early stage technology businesses and university spin-outs. The businesses, Inflyte and Brewbot, have received over £300,000 between them aspart of a
University of Oxford Isis Fund Makes First Investments
The £1.25 million University of Oxford Isis Fund, set up by Parkwalk Advisors and Isis Innovation in February, has made its first investments in medical device spin-out Oxtex and in Brainomix, a start up from the Isis Software Incubator which
Top Entrepreneurial Colleges Press Release-Princeton Review
From more than 2,000 schools that The Princeton Review surveyed in 2014 for this project, Babson College in Massachusetts earned the #1 spot on the undergraduate entrepreneurship programs ranking list: it has been #1 on this list for three consecutive
American University to unveil new start-up incubator, including $100K Venture Fund
American University’s Kogod School of Business on Friday plans to show off its new on-campus start-up incubator, the latest in a string of co-working spaces to pop up in and around the nation’s capital. The incubator, one of the key