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SINGAPORE, Feb. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Singapore-based energy technology startup Ampotech has raised S$1,775,000 in Pre-Series A funding to further its international expansion. The funding round was led by Earth Venture Capital (Earth VC), a global climate tech venture fund with Southeast Asia focus. KSL Maritime Ventures, the

NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans BioInnovation Center has announced the acquisition of Fluence Analytics, a NOBIC and BioFund-supported company, by Yokogawa Electric Corporation. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Fluence provides real-time analytics solutions to polymer and

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Applications are now open for the 2023 Invent Penn State Summer Founders Program, which provides a $15,000 grant to entrepreneurial teams with at least one Penn State student to work full-time on their startup, social good or

A trio of promising and exceptionally talented scientists at Oregon Health & Science University has earned unrestricted funding to extend leading-edge research to ultimately improve human health. Recipients of the 2023 Faculty Excellence and Innovation Awards, made possible by the

With a generous $22 million in gifts from Joan and Irwin Jacobs, UC San Diego Health will bring its Center for Health Innovation into full reality. The gifts will fund a novel patient-care “mission control center” within Jacobs Medical Center

The Intellectual Property (IP) Accelerator Fund provides support to researchers who have made a discovery but need to conduct extra studies to demonstrate that the discovery can meet a societal need. Such studies drive the research forward and can be essential for

Have a great idea for a new technology, but you need some funding to get it off the ground? The Tulane University Innovation Institute, in collaboration with Provost Robin Forman, has launched the Provost’s Proof of Concept (PPOC) Fund to provide competitive

On the anniversary of the revived Cancer Moonshot, the Biden administration unveiled partnerships directed at cancer care and prevention such as providing clinical and patient navigation support to families facing childhood cancer and boosting access to screenings and early detection. The

They call it “the valley of death.” In the technology startup world, it’s the gap in funding between the federal grants that fuel research at universities and the venture capital that funds startups when they’re starting to scale up. Can