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Mayo Clinic launched its artificial intelligence startup program this week with four early-stage health tech companies. The 20-week program, called Mayo Clinic Platform_Accelerate, aims to help AI-based startups get market-ready by offering access to Mayo Clinic experts in regulatory, clinical, technology and

hree startups founded by Rice University graduates have won investment prizes at an annual pitch competition. The annual H. Albert Napier Rice Launch Challenge, or NRLC, welcomed a panel of judges to hear from six alumni-founded startups in the finals

By two key measures, the Cincinnati Innovation District (CID) is demonstrating success at an accelerated pace in developing entrepreneurial talent. More than $100 million in investment dollars has been achieved at the University of Cincinnati through initiatives led by the

Flow Medical, Lismikro, and OrisDX each have been awarded a $200,000 co-investment from the George Shultz Innovation Fund to further develop their technologies. Managed by the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, the George Shultz Innovation Fund (GSIF) provides up to $250,000

The big pharma – known as MSD outside North America – is initially offering support to 12 companies though the newly-formed Merck Digital Sciences Studio (MDSS) and is now taking applications from would-be participants. The scheme is split between Merck’s Newark site

Premier Dan Andrews and treasurer Tim Pallas set up the $2 billion Breakthrough Victoria fund, chaired by former premier John Bracks, as an independent investment fund manager investing in commercial innovations in health, technology, manufacturing, agri-food and carbon sectors. The

  Reichman University in Herzliya is setting up a venture capital fund that will invest mostly in startups founded by its graduates. The fund already has $30 million in commitments from investors which are to be allocated to pre-Seed and

Talk of venture capital opportunities nowadays and thoughts inevitably turn to the pioneers of Silicon Valley. But innovation doesn’t always stem from that particular hotbed of capitalism. In the UK, many start-ups begin life at some of the world’s oldest

At Demo Night, the program’s annual pitch night and celebration of entrepreneurship, over 200 business-minded community members came at Hula on Tuesday to support the LaunchVT(link is external) 2022 cohort. To the audience and a panel of investor judges, which

Four faculty-led teams pursuing commercialization of research projects are ready for the next steps in that journey having completed the University of Maine’s 2022 MIRTA accelerator program. The teams presented their projects at a Demo Day event earlier this month,