Sentences with phrase «launch venture program»

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In the final semester of the 20 - month program, students create a business plan for a newly launched product or venture.

• Engage Ventures, an Atlanta - based venture fund and accelerator program managed by Tech Square Ventures, has launched with $ 15 million in capital commitments.

Meanwhile, Harvard's Rock Summer Fellowship program has seen MBAs launching ventures jump from 18 in the summer of 2011 to 52 this summer — largely thanks to boosted funds, points out Tom Eisenmann, faculty co-chair of Harvard's Rock Center for Entrepreneurship.

Harvard Business School launched the Rock Summer Fellowship program in 2007 to aid MBAs interested in starting their own ventures or spending summers at early - stage ventures.

Other government - backed launch ventures, including the French Arianespace and Russian Roscomos programs, have likewise been reticent to embrace reusable rockets.

The company launched in Detroit when founders Max Nussenbaum, Scott Lowe and Tim Dingman bought a foreclosed mansion during their Venture for America fellowship program.

The Creative Destruction Lab is a seed stage program for massively scalable science - based ventures that launched from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management in 2012 with a goal of $ 50 million in equity value creation in five years.

TORONTO, August 16, 2016 — Today, MaRS Discovery District launched Innovation Partnership: Procurement by Co-Design, a program designed to accelerate the development of technological breakthroughs by Ontario's health ventures and facilitate their procurement within the Ontario public health system.

Today, MaRS Discovery District launched Innovation Partnership: Procurement by Co-Design, a program designed to accelerate the development of technological breakthroughs by Ontario's health ventures and facilitate their procurement within the Ontario public health system.

AngelPad, an accelerator program that has launched more than 140 companies across 11 different «classes,» has raised $ 35 million in capital commitments for a new, $ 50 million venture fund,

NextAI - is an accelerator program for early - stage AI - enabled ventures or individuals and teams looking to commercialize research and launch something new.

The program was launched alongside the Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance, which now has 36 members and $ 12 billion in capital.

In 2013, a group of entrepreneurs and leaders within the business community set out to establish a program to accelerate the growth of technology based startups and to increase the level of technical talent in central Arkansas and in May 2014, The Venture Center was officially launched.

In a pilot venture with SiriusXM Satellite Radio, Stanford is launching two talk programs hosted by faculty members: The Future of Everything, focused on engineering, science and technology, and School's In, focused on teaching, learning and education.

Under his leadership, the ECIDA also launched a minority entrepreneurship loan / scholarship program aimed at creating entrepreneur opportunity in the minority community, oversaw creation of a venture fund that targets early - stage investment in the technology sector, and helped shape the organization's adaptive reuse policy.

The research team has applied for patents on the technology and has launched a company called Leuko, which is working on commercializing the technology with help from the MIT Innovation Initiative, the MIT Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation, the MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund, the Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship, the MIT Translational Fellows Program, and the MIT Venture Mentoring Service.

At my school, University of California, Berkeley, the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship has an outstanding program that includes an annual business plan competition, the vehicle I used to launch my venture 6 years ago.

Most recently, CRI has launched a new «venture philanthropy» program called the Cancer Vaccine Acceleration Fund (CVAF) as a means to catalyze development of next - generation therapeutic cancer vaccines and other immunotherapies by helping to address the critical shortage of capital available for early stage clinical trials.

The results are flexible tech transfer alliances with our partners that address broad needs and interests, including research and consultancy projects, co-development, launching of joint ventures, joint labs, personnel exchange programs, and licensing, as well as other services like individualized life - long learning courses, workshops, priority recruitment and networking.

Just this year, the Office of Chinese Language Council International — or Hanban, an affiliate of China's Ministry of Education — committed millions of dollars to help launch several ventures with U.S. schools, including a program in North Carolina to offer Mandarin Chinese classes in 45 public schools...

At last week's presentation, «Launching an Entrepreneurial Venture: From Cambridge to Tajikistan Using Raspberry Pis and the Sneakernet,» Beary shared her experiences with Entrepreneurial Lab (eLab)-- an entrepreneurship education program for high - potential, disadvantaged young women between the ages of 12 and 15 around the world — both in an effort to capture the early stages of a startup and to share how the organization has used low - cost technology to reach young women living in remote parts of low - income countries.

During her tenure in Louisiana, she taught second grade as a Greater New Orleans Teach For America corps member, and launched an entrepreneurial venture to help teachers better track progress for their students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs).

CityBridge Foundation and NewSchools Venture Fund launched the Education Innovation Fellowship, a yearlong program that introduces teacher leaders to the most promising practices in personalized learning, in 2013.

Before joining SRI, Bosetti worked for several entrepreneurial community ventures where she launched websites, helped to design and implement evaluation systems, and co-founded a leadership program for middle - school aged girls.

Now, LeVar Burton, longtime host and executive producer of the program, is venturing into the world of electronic juvenile reading with the launch of RRKidz, a subscription - based digital library for iPad and key Android devices which will give young readers access to hundreds of titles while being moderated for content appropriateness.

Here it is: Recently, Harlequin Enterprises launched two new business ventures aimed at aspiring writers, the Harlequin Horizons self - publishing program and the eHarlequin Manuscript Critique service (aka «Learn to Write»), both of which are widely promoted on its website and embedded in the manuscript submission guidelines for all of its imprints.

As one of its latest sustainability innovations, Nike is launching the Mata no Peito program, which will use its offsets as the basis of a venture to protect and recover forests throughout Brazil.

At Ernst & Young, she started as a consultant in the Venture Capital group, including working on the Entrepreneur of the Year program, and helped the firm to launch and grow both the Cleantech and Climate Change & Sustainability business units.

AngelPad, an accelerator program that has launched more than 140 companies across 11 different «classes,» has raised $ 35 million in capital commitments for a new, $ 50 million venture fund,

As more companies begin launching ride - sharing networks and self - driving car programs, the worlds of tech, transportation and venture capital are colliding.

The SCET has helped create the foundation of Berkeley's entrepreneurship ecosystem by launching institutions and programs such as SkyDeck, the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership, the Engineering Leadership Professional Program, Global Venture Lab, and cultivating an extensive network of Silicon Valley and global partners.

A $ 50m venture fund backed by Chinese conglomerate Wanxiang has officially launched a grant program focused on funding open - source blockchain projects.

To help small business owners like these, Kimco Realty Corporation (NYSE: KIM) has created Kimco Entrepreneurs Year Start (KEYS), an innovative incubator program for aspiring entrepreneurs seeking to launch their first retail venture, service operation or restaurant.