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AUSTIN, Texas — Discovery to Impact at The University of Texas at Austin has invested $250,000 in Group1, a UT-affiliated startup aiming to revolutionize the energy industry by developing potassium-ion battery technology. The investment will help Group1 increase its workforce,

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (also called UT Health San Antonio) Office of Technology Commercialization and the Office of the Vice President for Research recently announced the awardees for the inaugural Synergy Gap Fund. Earlier

The University of Chicago is designating $25 million from its endowment to invest alongside established venture funds in startups led by faculty, students, staff and alumni, expanding a commitment to grow entrepreneurship and research commercialization on campus. The Office of Investments,

In today’s dynamic business landscape, launching a new enterprise demands dedication, ingenuity, and substantial resources. Among the critical determinants of a startup’s triumph, securing adequate funding stands out as paramount. Recognizing the pivotal role universities play in nurturing budding entrepreneurs, institutions

The Michigan Translational Research and Commercialization Advanced Transportation Innovation Hub at the University of Michigan recently awarded nearly $1 million to support eight multidisciplinary research projects with high commercial potential. U-M researchers from the Ann Arbor and Dearborn campuses, along

When Eric Reich was starting higher education software company Campus Labs in 2001, there weren’t a lot of ways to learn and process how to grow a startup. It made the mentors he had at the time that much more

So many promising medical innovations never reach their full potential as therapies or cures, languishing instead in a metaphoric place many of us in biotech know as “the Valley of Death.” This valley represents the gap between when a scientist

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES, August 8, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ — The Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (VIPC) today announced that the University of Virginia (UVA) has been awarded a Commonwealth Commercialization Fund (CCF) grant for $75,000 in support of a commercialization project being conducted by Dr. Steven

Kyoto University-affiliated venture capital firm Miyako Capital has established a fund expected to raise roughly 20 billion yen ($141 million) to back startups involved in deep-tech biology and artificial intelligence. The fund will be one of the biggest vehicles of its kind in Japan,

Acareer in science no longer just means lab work, research papers and publishing in journals. More and more, scientific talent is entering tech by commercialising research and launching companies in everything from AI and quantum to drug discovery and carbon capture. But