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UTokyo Innovation Platform ties up with Cyber Valley to support portfolio teams mutually
UTokyo Innovation Platform (UTokyo IPC for short), the University of Tokyo’s answer to Stanford’s StartX incubator, announced in April that its 1stRound deep-tech startup support program has signed an agreement with Cyber Valley, a research consortium in the fields of AI and robotics based in
U Texas Seed Fund Invests $250,000 in Startup NALA Membranes
AUSTIN, Texas — Discovery to Impact at The University of Texas at Austin has invested $250,000 in NALA Membranes, a UT-affiliated startup advancing water purification through the development of a new class of game-changing chlorine-tolerant membranes for reverse osmosis industrial
Drexel Announces Second Cohort of Innovation Fund Investments
Drexel University has selected the three University-affiliated startups to receive support from the second cohort of its Innovation Fund. AER Cosmetics, a sustainable cosmetics brand founded by a Drexel student, and 1DNano, a nanomaterial cleantech company; and MXene, Inc., a
UNLV’s StepUp & StartUp intern program bolsters the engineering talent pool
Tina Quigley, president and CEO of the Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance, had her reservations about LOCATE Las Vegas. The initiative, which entrusted the developmental authority with courting 17 global company leaders in hopes of attracting them to Southern Nevada,
UND Runway Accelerator showcases student startups
On May 1, the UND Center for Innovation held the Runway Accelerator Showcase at the Memorial Union’s Social Stair on the University campus. Five students presented their startups and the progress they are making through participation in the Runway Accelerator
NCInnovation to consider UNCW research for commercialization grant
The board of directors of state-funded research grant organization NCInnovation will hear research grant proposals from seven state universities, including the University of North Carolina Wilmington, for its pilot funding round on May 14. The group’s board will hear and approve grants
Cancer vaccine ready for commercialization as part of growing MUSC startup community
In the 12 years since its inception, Leukogene Therapeutics Inc. has had one goal: to take an idea from the academic lab into the real world where it can benefit patients. With a new cancer vaccine platform designed to stimulate
Vanderbilt U’s Wond’ry Launches First Faculty BioMedical Ideator Cohort to Foster Medical Entrepreneurship
The Wond’ry recently hosted its first Faculty BioMedical Ideator cohort. The program curriculum was based around the Sullivan Family Ideator Program, which helps aspiring university-affiliated innovators (students, staff, faculty and alumni) evaluate and develop their ideas by teaching an evidence-based
Cornell Big Red Ventures shares portfolio updates at Annual Meeting
Big Red Ventures (BRV), Cornell University’s early-stage venture capital fund run by MBAs and other graduate students, presented its portfolio and announced a new investment during the Annual Meeting on April 18 at Cornell Tech. Founded in 2001 by donations to
UMass Amherst Maroon Ventures Launches Second Fund, Completes Initial Round of Investments
Seven years after launching its first fund to invest in early stage companies linked to UMass Amherst, Maroon Venture Partners has formed its second fund and completed an initial round of investments—providing capital to an optics firm founded by a faculty member