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The life sciences accelerator Blackbird Laboratories Inc. launched Tuesday with a $100 million founding grant from The Stephen and Renee Bisciotti Foundation and research collaborations with Johns Hopkins University, the University of Maryland, Baltimore and the Lieber Institute for Brain

Nex Cubed, the venture accelerator that launched a $40 million fund to target founders from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), announced today a venture scouting partnership with the nonprofit HBCU.vc to help train the next generation of Black venture capitalists. HBCU.vc offers fellowships

Oxford University Innovation and Parkwalk Advisors have closed £3m for its latest fund backing early-stage startups. Shared exclusively with UKTN, the University of Oxford Innovation Fund was initially set up in 2014 to back tech and science spinouts from the university.

BrightEdge LLC, the American Cancer Society’s (ACS) venture capital and impact investment arm, received its largest donation to date from Dallas-based  Lyda Hill Philanthropies to establish the ACS BrightEdge Texas Accelerator, a two-year pilot innovation acceleration program hub. The $5.25M gift will

Just like crop tops, flannel, and some truly unfortunate JNCO jeans that one of these authors wore in junior high, the trends of the 90’s are upon us again. In the innovation world, this means an outsized focus on tech-based economic development,

Sheffield Hallam University’s Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre is launching a new early-stage medtech and digital health R&D accelerator programme. Startups accepted onto the six-month programme will gain access to the centre’s resources to develop their products as well as non-dilutive

As part of the President’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Commerce identified regional centers primed for technological innovation and job creation. The Biden-Harris administration, through the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA), today announced the

The University of Virginia is launching a new, cross-University entrepreneurship initiative to advance its “Great and Good” 2030 strategic plan and to make it easier for students, faculty, staff, alumni and investors to navigate the entrepreneurial ecosystem. “I’m grateful to

The Ohio University Board of Trustees approved to name OHIO’s new translational research center, the Heritage Translational Research Center, in honor of the university’s ongoing partnership with the Osteopathic Heritage Foundation during its meetings Oct. 19-20. The foundation is providing

Entrepreneurs in the emerging technology arena can receive assistance through a new startup accelerator announced by the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville and several partners. Bounds Accelerator will leverage technology like blockchain, artificial intelligence, augmented reality and virtual reality. The university’s