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The Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI) is seeking proposals from Southwest Virginia researchers for Innovation: Ideation to Commercialization. This program is designed to provide paths to market for research and technologies with the potential for significant societal and economic impact within the

he goals that Dr. Mehdi Mohammadi Ashani, PhD, and Dr. Stephanie Bishop, PhD, share for their research inspired them to become academic entrepreneurs. “We are going from invention in the lab to innovation and commercialization,” Mohammadi says. “Seeing my product

Planting a seed seems like a quaint activity, but the University of Texas at Austin doesn’t do anything small. Its new $10 million UT seed fund is going into incubation soon, thanks to the efforts of Discovery to Impact, the team leading

FinTech, PropTech, AgroTech. Combine any industry with “tech” and you’ve got yourself a startup. The combination of traditional industries with developing internet and Web3 technology has indeed created a plethora of business ideas. Supporting this growth on the island is

EDITOR OPINION: For the first time in a decade, less than 30 percent of total U.S. venture capital has gone to Silicon Valley… Maturing regional/local ecosystems supported by new sources of funding/innovation support, migration, and open relationship-building are creating beds

The Australian Government has announced $264 million in funding to support 258 exceptional health and medical research projects through the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), across three funding streams. 232 research teams with a focus on discovery and

America’s Frontier Fund has raised the first $100 million in a $500 million campaign, part of which will be used to create a venture studio in New Mexico to tap into the deep technology developed at the state’s national laboratories

The Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation’s (VIPC), Commonwealth Commercialization Fund (CCF) today announced that Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) has been awarded a CFF grant of $75,000 to support a product commercialization project led by Dr. Ravi L. Hadimani. VIPC’s CCF programs have

Building upon their successful first year that included investing $100,000 in Nebraskan startups and winning the university’s Outstanding New Student Organization Award, student members of the Husker Venture Fund (HVF) set goals this year to grow their impact on the