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Swinburne University of Technology Accelerator Program: Paving the Path to Entrepreneurship Excellence
Embarking on the entrepreneurial journey is like embarking on a quest for the unknown. It’s a path filled with excitement, challenges and the promise of building something meaningful from scratch. After an intensive 12-week journey in Swinburne Innovation Studio’s 2023 Accelerator
SUNY announces Technology Accelerator Fund Grants
Albany, NY – State University of New York Chancellor John B. King, Jr. today announced that $450,000 in seed funding through the Technology Accelerator Fund (TAF) has been distributed to eight SUNY campuses. The grants will fund nine ongoing, potentially groundbreaking
Blavatnik Family Foundation Gives Additional $40 Million to Yale Innovation Fund | Yale Ventures
The Blavatnik Family Foundation, whose historic gift in 2016 helped create what has become Yale’s flagship life science accelerator, has made an additional $40 million donation that will increase the number of research awards available to Yale scientists, support a
TU’s Hurricane Ventures announces first two startup investments – The University of Tulsa
The University of Tulsa’s Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship is excited to announce the launch of Hurricane Ventures. This new initiative, in partnership with 46 Venture Capital, is designed to be a funding catalyst for TU student, faculty, staff and alumni startups.
Protégé Ventures Launches S$500,000 Fund II to Fuel Early-Stage Technology Start-ups Led by Student Founder
SINGAPORE, 11 September 2023: Protégé Ventures (PV), a student-run venture fund programme set up by the Singapore Management University Institute of Innovation & Entrepreneurship (SMU IIE), has launched the Marina & David Su Protégé Ventures Fund II. This $500,000 sector-agnostic
13 WNY-based startups have ‘graduated’ from UB’s Cultivator, with more to come next week
An AI-driven hiring tool. Cooling apparel to prevent heat injury. A platform to help colleges and universities increase student retention. These are just a few of the products being developed by the 13 and counting Western New York-based companies that
Washington Research Foundation commits more than $1.2 million to postdoctoral entrepreneurship program
A $1.2 million Washington Research Foundation (WRF) grant will help fund a training program for entrepreneurs at Washington State University later this year. The Postdoctoral Entrepreneurship Program (PEP) supports early-career innovators to improve the likelihood of successfully commercializing their technologies for public benefit. WRF’s
Rice University launches One Small Step, One Giant Leap initiatives, including a POC and VC fund
Over 60 years ago at Rice University, President John F. Kennedy recommitted the country to the Space Race. Now, decades later, the university is announcing its commitment to moonshot innovators. Rice University’s Office of Innovation established the One Small Step Grant —
Cornell Life Sciences Technology Innovation Fellowship announces 2023-24 cohort
After its inaugural cycle in 2022-23, Cornell University’s Life Sciences Technology Innovation Fellowship, formerly known as the BioEntrepreneurship Initiative, enters its second year with a new cohort of 15 business students and 12 researchers who are eager to embark on their
ASU announces seed funding project partners for SWAP Hub | ASU News
In advancing a vision for building a microelectronics ecosystem that can serve both the state of Arizona and America’s national agenda for semiconductor research, development and manufacturing, time is a factor, speed matters and so does collaboration. Arizona State University