U News | Nashville company participating in Maine’s “Future of Healthcare Founder Residency” program
The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has announced the inaugural cohort of the Resurgence Fellowship, a new program connecting students with start-ups in its cleantech accelerator.
From Northeastern University:
The Roux Institute has welcomed the second cohort of its “Future of Healthcare Founder Residency” program, and one of the 10 participants is EmpoweRx Inc. from Nashville.
The year-long residency program is designed specifically for early stage founders whose big ideas in digital health, healthcare technology, and clinical innovation will help solve the industry’s greatest challenges.
Developed in partnership with Northern Light Health and MaineHealth and supported by the Maine Venture Fund, the first of its kind program in northern New England is expected to supercharge Maine’s growing healthcare technology industry by bringing 30 health tech companies to the state over the next three years.
The 10 newest cohort of 10 founders is working out of the Roux Institute’s cutting-edge innovation hub in Portland where they have direct access to Northern Light Health and MaineHealth facilities and clinicians for mentorship, subject-matter expertise, and to serve as testing grounds for their technologies.
Each founding team in the cohort receives a $50,000 investment to help accelerate the start-up’s growth and hit milestones. The 10 also get access to curated programming and mentorship; free in-house business, design, and legal service; and connections to other start-ups in the Roux’s entrepreneurship ecosystem.
From the University of Chicago:
The University’s Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation has announced the inaugural cohort of the Resurgence Fellowship, a new program connecting students with start-ups in its cleantech accelerator.
Supported by a Breakthrough Energy Fellows Ecosystem Grant, the program provides selected University of Chicago students with the opportunity to support innovation and business development in the clean energy and sustainability space.
“The Resurgence program is designed to bring cleantech entrepreneurs from around the country to Hyde Park and connect them with the University of Chicago ecosystem,” said Ozge Guney-Altay, Director of Resurgence. “The Breakthrough Ecosystem Grant provided us with the opportunity to create an organized effort aligned with this mission: a meaningful experiential learning opportunity for students and a source of talent for the tech entrepreneurs in our accelerator. This has been a great first step towards building a connected network and a nurturing ecosystem for our entrepreneurs to maximize their impact.”
The inaugural cohort of Resurgence Fellows are all MBA candidates at the University’s Booth School of Business. They will support the start-ups in key business development areas such as financial modeling and projections, customer discovery, market opportunity assessment, and investor readiness, including data room staging.
From Miami University of Ohio:
The Oxford, OH-based institution has named the 50 businesses in the inaugural RedHawk50, which celebrates the 50 fastest-growing companies built by former students at the University. With 360 companies nominated in the first year, leaders at Miami University are excited to see how this program can grow and help current students succeed. Miami University has already announced that it will make this an annual event and will start accepting nominations for the second list in June.
From Clemson University:
The University and NASA’s Johnson Space Center have signed a Space Act Agreement that opens the door to unique research and education opportunities aimed at advancing space exploration.
Johnson Space Center, whose Director is Clemson alumna Vanessa Wyche, is home to America’s astronaut corps, NASA’s Mission Control Center, International Space Station operations, and a team of scientists and engineers working on advances in science, technology, engineering, and medicine.
The agreement paves the way for Clemson faculty and NASA to identify and pursue mutual research that fosters innovation in aerospace engineering, space and Earth science, advanced materials, computer and data science, advanced manufacturing, human health in space, and numerous other fields.
From Florida Atlantic University:
Speaking of NASA, Miami Inno reports that the Boca Raton-based University is one of eight U.S. colleges selected to work with the agency and U.S. military to develop small satellites – and the team might even have the chance to see its technology fly in space.
A team from the university’s College of Engineering and Computer Science will participate in NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative from May to August. They will meet at the Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island for a four-day introductory session and then spend seven weeks at the U.S. Air Force’s University Nanosatellite Program facilities in Albuquerque, NM.
From the University of Arkansas:
Phil Shellhammer has been named the new Director of the Office of Entrepreneurship and Innovation (OEI), overseeing a team that is leading the charge in transforming Arkansas into a clear destination for new businesses. An Ohio native, he is a former business executive and serial entrepreneur who joined the University in 2021 to oversee the Greenhouse Outdoor Recreation Program (GORP), one of three business incubators at OEI. Shellhammer earned his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Cincinnati and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. He succeeds Sarah Goforth, who had led OEI since 2017. She is taking a new position at the University to be announced later.
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