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During the second quarter of 2022, 19 Pittsburgh tech companies raised a combined $103.8 million from venture capitalists, economic development entities, corporate investors and high-net-worth individuals. It handily topped the second-quarter dollars in 2021 and 2020, but was also the

See whether this sounds familiar: you build a piece of software to solve a research question. But when you move on to the next project, there’s no one to maintain it. As it ages, it becomes obsolete, and the next

Last year, a small group of Emory University graduate students at Goizueta Business School in Georgia began to examine the challenge of getting Black and other historically underrepresented founders access to capital. One way to do that, they reckoned, was to

Beyond Velocity’s well-known incubator in Kitchener’s innovation district, Velocity supports more than 5,000 students per year through on-campus programs, such as Zero, Problem Lab and Cornerstone, designed to give University of Waterloo students an early start in entrepreneurship and create experiences to build key skills

The Institute for Protein Design is an innovation factory. Since launching a decade ago, the University of Washington institution has grown to about 200 researchers and spun out eight startups wielding protein-design software to forge new drugs, vaccines, and enzymes. IPD spinouts

Global venture capital funding showed signs of a slowdown in February, with startup investors pouring $10 billion less into companies than they did in January, according to Crunchbase data. VC investors globally cut $52 billion in checks last month, down

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