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CSE professor’s machine learning start-up, GraphLab, scores $6.75M in venture funding, joins C4C incubator
Posted on May 16, 2013
GraphLab Inc., a start-up company founded by UW professor Carlos Guestrin, announced this week a $6.75 million Series A funding led by Madrona Venture...
UW spin-out LumiSands has a bright idea for powering LEDs
Posted on May 16, 2013
Chang-Ching Tu was not necessarily looking to start a business when he first contacted the UW Center for Commercialization (C4C). He wanted to continue...
White House Selects UW Spin-out Greenroads As A "Champion of Change" For Its Contribution to Sustainable Transportation
Posted on May 09, 2013
UW spin-out company Greenroads was honored on Wednesday, March 8, 2013 as a White House Champion of Change for Transportation Technology Solutions in recognition...
UW Spin-out NanoFacture Gives Researchers a Low-Cost Alternative to Purifying DNA Samples; Targets $3 Billion Device Market
Posted on May 06, 2013
More than 45,000 research laboratories worldwide, and 8,000 in the US alone, conduct research that requires DNA separation and purification, driving a $3 billion...
BEAT BioTherapeutics Corporation closes $2.5MM Seed Financing to develop its gene therapy treatment for heart failure
Posted on April 15, 2013
University of Washington spin-out aims to refuel pumping power of the heart BEATBio, a Seattle-based biotechnology company focused on the development of a novel...
UW start-up EnVitrum turns trash glass into bricks; wins Phase II NSF SBIR of $500K to scale production
Posted on March 28, 2013
UW start-up EnVitrum has been awarded a phase II NSF SBIR of $500k for two years to perform development related to scaling up their...
Start-up company Lamprogen to join C4C Incubator
Posted on March 07, 2013
UW biomedical spin-out Lamprogen, founded by UW Professor of Chemistry Daniel Chiu, has joined the C4C New Ventures Facility (NVF). The NVF at Fluke...
Japanese drugmaker Takeda secures rights to lupus drugs from UW spinout Resolve Therapeutics in $255M deal
Posted on March 01, 2013
Takeda Pharmaceutical Company and Resolve Therapeutics today jointly announced that they have entered into a partnership to develop compounds for the treatment of lupus...
UW Professor Jim Olson's start-up company Blaze Bioscience Raises $8.5M to help surgeons pinpoint cancer with "tumor paint"
Posted on February 22, 2013
Seattle biotechnology start-up Blaze Bioscience has raised $8.5 million to continue developing technologies that are designed to help surgeons more easily identify cancer cells...
Stillaguamish Tribe to Invest $5 Million in UW Spin-out MicroGREEN Polymers
Posted on January 16, 2013
MicroGREEN Polymers, Inc. announced that the Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians has made a strategic investment of $5 million in MicroGREEN. This round of funding,...