New Mexico startup Holochip Corp. scored a $2.7 million Series A round from ITU Ventures this week. The company previously had raised an undisclosed seed round from ITU and...
Medical technology startups based on research licensed from Purdue University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have both scored seed financing. MatrixBio LLC, which received an undisclosed...
St Andrews Fuel Cells Ltd. has scored a £700,000 ($1.4 million) round of investment led by Sigma Capital Partners plc. Sigma, a private equity fund, invested £250,000 in the startup...
Things have been a bit hectic over here for the last few days, but I'm still embarrassed that I missed the creation of a $2 million fund to invest in...
The Association of University Technology Managers released its annual report earlier this week detailing how universities, hospitals and institutions fared in 2006 in transferring research to the private sector. Essentially,...
The Show-Me state is tired of watching its neighbors create high-tech jobs and miss out on all the entrepreneurial action. In a new paper sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman...
Technology transfer doesn't just help universities and venture companies create spinoffs; it also can be a valuable source of R&D for existing, bootstrapped businesses. ClassOne Orthodontics Inc., an orthodontics supply...
The goal of tax credit programs in several U.S. states has been to give people an extra incentive to invest in early-stage companies. Under such programs, putting money into certain...
A new startup incubator in Seattle is proposing to do for consumer products design what Y Combinator, TechStars, LaunchBox Digital and others are doing for software and digital media. Slipstream...
A master's candidate at the University of Ottawa has created an algorithm that searches for images based on the picture itself, rather than the words that describe it, the conventional...
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