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Deere & Company has released the names of eight companies chosen for its 2023 Startup Collaborator program. The Startup Collaborator was launched in 2019 and helps John Deere enhance precision technology in its agriculture and construction equipment. This year’s Startup

University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) is one of five universities working in partnership with TEDCO as part of our Maryland Innovation Initiative (MII). MII was established in 2012 as a technology transfer program with the goal to grow and accelerate promising technologies

Drexel University announced the launch of the Innovation Fund, which invests in early-stage Drexel student and postgraduate startups, as well as startups founded to commercialize the results of Drexel scientific research. “This is a bold new initiative to empower our

he University of Chicago has unveiled Polsky Deep Tech Ventures, a new initiative offering a suite of sector-specific accelerators, entrepreneurial training and funding dedicated to supporting startups that bring world-changing science and technology to market. This effort is aligned with

An ongoing accelerator led by Colorado State University and Innosphere has been named a semi-finalist in a U.S. Department of Energy-sponsored incubator program, securing $50,000 in funding with the potential to vie for $100,000 and $500,000 in later rounds of

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