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University Gap Funding and Accelerator Community News
i2E scores a win for state in Oklahoma, leverages $23M in additional capital
We had the opportunity to showcase innovation 2 Enterprise in a web-workshop earlier this year, a Oklahoma state supported POC/seed stage accelerator/investor. They recently reported a major success in leverging $23 M for Selexys Pharma and MPM Capital to sickle
University of California Office of the President announces new round of POC Commercialization Gap Grants
The UC Office of the President’s Proof of Concept (PoC) Commercialization Gap Grants program funds promising innovations that are nearly ripe for the market, but require one last round of testing or demonstration to prove commercial viability. Then investors and industry partners,
U Chicago Innovation Fund supports POC study for a predictive healthcare approach
This study demonstrated the usefulness and accuracy of VG-Bio’s system and helped the company in December 2011 to win a $75,000 grant from the University of Chicago’s Innovation Fund, which is administered by UChicagoTech. The grant is funding a larger
Obama administration announces its i6 challenge proof of concept center recipients
Undoubtedly from the recommendations from the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (NACIE), and other works directed at the promise of proof of concept centers like the IMPACT paper, “The i6 Challenge is a multi-agency grant that encourages and rewards innovative, groundbreaking
Utah’s Tech Commercialization and Innovation Program invests $600K in 15 more projects
Fifteen promising innovative technologies just got a $40,000 boost. For the first round of the new fiscal year, the Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) approved $600,000 of grants in support of new technology and research that universities and
European Research Council funds 33 new proof of concept projects
The European Research Council (ERC) will release a new round of proof of concept grants to 33 research projects. Each project will receive EUR 150,000 that is put towards commercial translation such as IP dilligence, market research, and commercial validations.
Marblar aims to support university commercialization through competitions and crowdsourcing
Some crowdsourcing competitions, like the X-Prize, ask people to come up with technological solutions to a problem. Marblar, a startup launching this month, is doing it backward—asking people to come up with problems that a given technology could solve.
Portland Seed Fund touts third round of start-ups, raising a second fund
Portland Seed Fund Funding: $3 million from private and public sources, including $800,000 from the city of Portland, $250,000 from Hillsboro and $500,000 from the Oregon Growth Account (funded by state lottery dollars). The plan: Seed two dozen companies over
U of New Hampshire awards innovation grant to coating company
The Innovation Research Center at the University of New Hampshire has awarded a Granite State Technology Innovation Grant to ArgenTech Solutions, Inc. (AgTS) to help develop a high-performance, photoluminescent powder coating additive suitable for advanced safety and military applications.
University of York offers proof of concept funding for social entrepreneurs
THE University of York is to encourage a new generation of social entrepreneurs. The university is one of 56 universities to take part in a pilot of a national programme to encourage the creation of social enterprises, self-sustaining initiatives to achieve