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University of Minnesota announces two venture funds
The University of Minnesota plans to launch two venture capital funds next year, one of which will invest in startup companies that license university technology. The fund backing university startups will total $20 million in size and will make seed-stage investments over
Recent overview of US Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship initiatives
A complete overview of the background and planned initiatives from the US Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, including: i6 Challenge National Advisory Committee on Innovation and Entrepreneurship Interagency Working Group on Technology Transfer High Education Forum Full Deck: http://www.slideshare.net/3helix/us-office-of-innovation-and-entrepreneurship-overview#btnPrevious
The University College of London delivers a suite of internal funds, translational research to start-up support
Internal Funding Translational Research Office Administered Funds Confidence in Concept UCL has been awarded £700,000 by the MRC to establish a Confidence in Concept fund to be used flexibly to support the earliest stages of multiple translational research projects. It
Scotish seed fund launches, support from Office of Science and Technology
NESTech is a £3m technology seed fund resulting from a successful application to the Office of Science and Technology [OST] University Challenge Fund by the University of St Andrews along with Dundee and Aberdeen Universities. NESTech’s purpose is to provide funding at
Global from Day One: New Zealand-based Sparkbox Ventures makes two investments from seed fund
The Global from Day One Fund – the new seed investment fund established by Sparkbox Ventures and the ICEHO– USE – has made its first two investment commitments into two technology companies, Mohio and Stay Today. Andrew Duff, Sparkbox’s chairman,
Vital role of university funds in spurring physics-based technologies
PhysicsToday covers the rich history of the physicist in campus entrepreneurship and the role of university proof of concept, start-up funds, and corporate connections in supporting the transition of idea to reality. PhysicsToday: http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v65/i12/p39_s1?bypassSSO=1
University of Sydney Sydnovate POC fund overview
The Sydnovate Fund provides critical financial support for research projects with commercial potential. These funds will be used to: Strengthen University Patents, especially by reducing inventions to practice during the 12 months period between Provisional filing and PCT filing. Strengthening
York University Student Enterprise POC fund, call for proposals
York CETLE is committed to helping students develop enterprising ideas and can offer very practical assistance in the form of proof of concept funding to get the idea of the ground. The aim of the Proof of Concept fund is
British EPSRC supports Oxford University POC fund
Funding of £3.6m will help Oxford University researchers bridge the so-called ‘valley of death’ – the gap between having an idea for an invention and it being developed enough for others to want to invest in it. The money will
University of Florida start-up, AGTC, lands $37.5M in VC for novel approaches to curing rare genetic respiratory and retinal diseases
An Alachua-based biotechnology company has secured $37.5 million in venture capital funding in what is believed to be the largest private venture deal ever for an area company. Applied Genetic Technologies Corp. announced that a syndicate of three new investors