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University Gap Funding and Accelerator Community News
Portland Seed Fund releases fourth funding class of area start-ups
Portland is certainly growing as a startup city, and now there’s a new batch of companies ready to make their mark in the Rose City. The two-year-old Portland Seed Fund just graduated its fourth class of early-stage companies. The incubator, a unique public-private partnership supported
U Arizona TechLaunch announces its first POC fund project review
JOIN US TO REVIEW POC PROGRAM/TLA ON FEB. 5th We are very excited to host the first Project Review for these University of Arizona new technologies! TLA created the Proof Of Concept Program to help Faculty develop prototypes of promising
Michigan’s University Research Corridor expands support services, gap funding
Michigan’s University Research Corridor is proving to be a powerful business incubator for students, faculty and alumni, playing a dramatically increased role in
U Virginia Launches Crowdfunding Initiative
The University of Virginia (and an increasing number of research universities) is leveraging crowd-sourced funding to support and highlight ongoing research projects. “We hear from a lot of stakeholders and a lot of others that they would like to know
U Houston GEAR Program Supports Researchers At $30K An Idea
Ask any professor: A good idea alone isn’t likely to receive serious research funding. Big awards almost always have some data that supports the project, that shows the researcher’s idea should work. In a classic catch-22, though, getting this data
One Year In, Harvard XFund Backs Three Start-ups, Ratchets Up Student Entrepreneurship
When a group of Harvard alumni formed the Experiment Fund (Xfund) a little over a year ago, they were hoping that their seed fund would nourish a burgeoning entrepreneurial culture on campus—and beyond—and make a profit as well. New companies are spawned
University of Iowa Accepting Pre-Proposals For Commercialization Awards Program
UIRF is accepting pre-proposals for the 2013 commercialization award program. Despite the delay in the Iowa state final budget approval, UIRF is now accepting pre-proposal innovation summaries. As we did last year, we will work with PIs to perform IP and
UCalifornia-Riverside Announces 2013/14 POC Fund
The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development announces the FY2013-2014 Proof of Concept for Technology Commercialization (POC) Award Program. The POC award provides UCR investigators up to $35,000 to further develop a commercializable invention based upon
UT Horizon Fund Aims to Build, and Capture, Value from Its Startups
Like other universities, UT has already acquired ownership stakes in spinoff companies by accepting equity as part of the compensation for licensing its intellectual property to startups. Since the Horizon Fund began operations last year, it has been able to
innovosource releases 2013(Q1) university-affiliated gap funding activity report
innovosource, through its Mind the Gap initiative, just released the first-ever quarterly university-affiliated technology and start-up gap funding report. The goal of this quarterly report is to advocate for and inform practitioners and the general public on the importance of this funding mechanism