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The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Northpond Labs, the research-and-development affiliate of Northpond Ventures, entered into an agreement today, whereby Northpond Labs will support the Institute’s “Lab-on-a-Molecule” project. This is the third Wyss project to which

Even though William & Mary is best known as a liberal arts “public Ivy,” it’s also a research university where professors are quietly producing innovative technology — and are less quietly trying to create an entrepreneurial network to support it.

The Alabama Innovation Corporation awarded two University of Alabama at Birmingham startups with grants during the second round of Innovate Alabama Supplemental Grant awards. The Innovate Alabama Supplemental Grant Program awards funds to Alabama-based companies that have been granted Phase I or Phase II

Many student-led innovations never make it out of the lab. A new program at UC Santa Cruz aims to change that by mentoring Ph.D. students in the life sciences on alternative career pathways outside academia: entrepreneurship and venture capital. The Innovation

Six startup business ventures created by The Ohio State University undergraduate students have each received $50,000 through the second annual President’s Buckeye Accelerator. The goal of the President’s Buckeye Accelerator is to help students who found startups to test their ideas

Student entrepreneurs will pitch for a share of £75,000 in start-up funding at the University of Bristol’s ‘Innovation Showcase 2023.’ During the public event on May 9, a dozen student ventures will pitch to a panel of business experts in

LinusBio, a 2021 spinoff company from Mount Sinai, announced it raised over $16 million in Series A venture capital funding to deliver a novel platform that bridges genomics, the environment, and biological response. The company’s platform is based on new

On March 4, Harvard Business School student-led teams pitched their startups to 88 judges in the first round of the HBS 2023 New Venture Competition (NVC) Business Track, managed by the School’s Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. Sixteen semifinalist teams were selected to move on

Milltrust, a London, UK-based investment organisation focused on ‘Sustainable Prosperity’ across both public and private capital markets, launched the British Innovation Fund II, along with a dedicated venture investment platform, Milltrust Ventures. The fund will target high-impact, early-stage companies with

The University of Chicago’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Data Science Institute today announced the inaugural cohort of its new accelerator, Transform. Housed within the new Deep Tech Ventures initiative at the Polsky Center, Transform will provide full-spectrum support, including access to business and technical