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University Gap Funding and Accelerator Community News
IDEA: Northeastern’s Venture Accelerator launches first wave of ventures
In fewer than two years, IDEA has worked with more than 200 ventures from every college in the university and provided approximately $150,000 in funding to more than a dozen teams, many of which have drawn interest from outside investors. The venture
Northwestern Entrepreneur-In-Residence Testifies On Impact of Gap Funding To Pharma (Excerpt)
Excerpt from Dr. Andrew P. Mazar, Entrepreneur in Residence,testifies to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology (Sub-committee on Research and Science Education). These comments reflect the need for and gap funding emphasis on development-intensive technologies, like
Pennsylvania University Partnership Funds Translational Research Through The Energy Commercialization Institute (ECI)
Alternative energy research projects involving four faculty members from the University of Pennsylvania have been awarded grants from the Energy Commercialization Institute,a translational-research partnership that draws upon several regional universities.
i2E, Oklahoma Seed Capital Fund, and OSU Cowboy Technologies Invest $250K Round in Associated Material Processing, LLC
i2E, Inc. (Covered in our MTG Leader State-partnered Gap Fund Event), has made a concept investment of $125,000 in Stillwater, OK-based Associated Material Processing, LLC., through the Oklahoma Seed Capital Fund. The Seed Fund investment led an investment round of
CIT GAP Funds puts $50K into Cyber Security Technology
Virginia’s Center for Innovative Technology has invested $50,000 in Power Fingerprinting Inc. The investment from CIT’s GAP Fund will be used for further development of Power Fingerprinting’s technology that detects embedded security threats in computer systems in order to thwart malicious
Dell Sets Up $60M Storage Start-up Fund
Dell also said the computer maker has established a $60 million venture fund to invest in storage technologies. The fund will back startups that aim to house growing amounts of data at businesses with fewer than 50,000 employees, for example,
State-supported, Pennsylvania venture fund to support early stage software companies
The dearth of early-stage capital available to fund young technology companies in the Philadelphia region is nothing new. It was a source of concern for entrepreneurs and economic-development types in the late ’80s, when I moved here. Hand-wringing resumed early
U-M awards first $100K translational medical research award
Administrators at the University of Michigan’s A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute announced Monday the winner of the first $100,000 translational medical research award.
U Michigan partners with venture capital group to support start-ups
A new partnership between the University of Michigan’s tech transfer office and the Michigan Venture Capital Association (MVCA) aims to increase the commercialization of university technology by granting members of the MVCA access to UM-based research and start-ups.
Prize-Based Innovation for University of Notre Dame Computer Science & Engineering Students and Faculty
The University of Notre Dame’s Computer Science & Engineering program will collaborate with Schurz Communications on a first-of-its-kind “innovation challenge,” beginning fall semester, 2012. Undergraduates, graduate students and faculty will be asked to consider real-world digital solutions and opportunities for