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Kairos Ventures, a Beverly Hills-based venture capital firm funding early-stage life sciences companies, announced on Monday that it has closed its third fund with $58 million raised. Kairos said its new fund has already invested in 27 startups including Vivodyne,

Success comes in many forms. For a movie, it could be box office numbers or critical acclaim. In academia, maybe it’s publishing research or helping students land dream jobs after graduation. New research from the University of Washington shows there

In a bold display of support for cultivating an intrepid mindset across campus, the Entrepreneurship Center, located within the Design and Innovation Building, officially launched last week. The private gathering welcomed students, faculty, university officials and business collaborators to visit

Netherlands-based UNIIQ, a €28.8M investment fund focusing on the proof-of-concept phase, assists West Dutch entrepreneurs in bringing their products to market quicker. The firm provides seed money to innovative businesses to help them realise their visions and bridge the gap between

The Bayer Trendlines Ag Innovation Fund (“the Fund”), set up by Bayer CropScience LP (“Bayer“) and The Trendlines Group Ltd. (“Trendlines“) (SGX: 42T) (OTCQX: TRNLY), announced the establishment of TierraSpec Ltd. (“TierraSpec“), a new company focused on real-time remote measurement

Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) will launch a four-week residential, immersive program that will bring together entrepreneurs, business leaders, VC investors, and preeminent faculty this summer. The program, called Stanford dy/dx, will equip 25 high-growth start-up teams with the knowledge and

Alberta Innovates is putting fresh money into supporting Alberta’s small and medium-sized technology businesses and bolstering the province’s burgeoning technology ecosystem. The first 15 projects selected through the Alberta Innovates Ecosystem Development Pilot Program have received more than $9.1 million

“It’s more of an art than a science,” says the author. Most likely, you’ve heard this expression in regard to cooking, from a friend or relative expressing their mixed results with a particular recipe. The implication is that feel and

UConn’s Technology Incubation Program (TIP) has developed into the state’s largest incubator for emerging entrepreneurs since its founding in 2003. Hundreds of employment are created in Connecticut as a result of the program’s entrepreneurs and innovators, as well as an

A better surgical adhesive was long overdue. Pittsburgh, on the other hand, was not. So, a decade after its establishment, Cohera Medical, a promising firm founded on an invention by University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) chemical engineer Eric Beckman, relocated to