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(William Atkins/GW Today) Five patent-protected technologies developed by inventors and researchers at the George Washington University received Technology Maturation Awards (TMA) from GW’s Technology Commericialization Office (TCO) for their significant potential impact on their respective fields. Each winning project received internal research

Princeton Engineering researchers are starting new projects to boost biofuel production by studying microbes from extreme environments, abate urban heat islands through machine learning, and develop new kinds of deployable wings for robots — all funded by the latest round

Madrona Venture Labs (MVL), a pre-seed startup incubator-of-sorts based in Seattle, Washington that bills itself as “an enterprise AI startup studio … for founders, by founders” has secured $11 million for its fifth fund, with a focus on empowering the next

Fifteen new energy ventures that are building technologies to accelerate the energy transition will work with the Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator as part of the third cohort of the program. The annual 10-week program kicks off on July 25 and will

OSU affiliated startup Titan Intake Inc. recently received a strategic investment from Tulsa-based venture capital firm 46VC.   Titan Intake, a Tulsa-based software company, has developed a unique platform designed to automate the process of patient intake and referrals.   Unlike the traditional way of

NewHaptics, an innovative tactile display technology company, announced it has raised growth capital from the Accelerate Blue Fund. This represents the Company’s first round of venture funding, and is a meaningful milestone towards commercializing an affordable refreshable braille and tactile

Nine North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University faculty have received a portion of $225,000 in seed grant funding through the new Provost’s Faculty Fellows opportunity. Launched by North Carolina A&T’s Office of the Provost, Title III, and Division of

OXCCU, a company spun-out from the University of Oxford in 2021 that is focused on converting carbon dioxide and hydrogen into industrial and consumer products (earlier post), completed an £18-million (US$22.8 million) Series A financing round. The round was led by Clean

The student-led NYU Impact Investment Fund (NIIF) has successfully completed its fourth investment with a $30,000 investment in EdVisorly, a Black- and female- founded business that has developed a community college-to-university platform, empowering community college students to connect with a university and achieve a

New technologies aimed at improving prostate cancer diagnosis, enhancing employment services for job seekers with disabilities, and optimizing clinical use treatments for melanoma patients could get closer to market thanks to $250,000 in seed funding announced today by the University