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CSE professor’s machine learning start-up, GraphLab, scores $6.75M in venture funding, joins C4C incubator
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 Group and NEA. The company will be taking up residence in the C4C New Ventures Facility, UW’s start-up incubator on campus. Guestrin, who is also the company’s CEO, began the GraphLab open source project five years ago, GraphLab Inc is building… View More
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Medical Device Exec Steve Dimmer Joins C4C as Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Steve Dimmer, an entrepreneur with 25 years of broad experience founding, building and growing medical device companies, is C4C’s newest Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Dimmer co-founded and served as CEO of Holaira from inception through Series B financing in 2012. Holaira is a venture capital funded start-up with a novel therapy which has the potential to impact millions of patients. Prior to Holaira, Mr. Dimmer was a founding… View More
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UW spin-out LumiSands has a bright idea for powering LEDs
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 research on his invention— a cheaper and more eco-friendly material that replaces an important component of LED lights. Working with Dr. Lih Y. Lin, UW professor of electrical engineering, Tu had discovered that silicon phosphors hold promise for replacing the rare… View More
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White House Selects UW Spin-out Greenroads As A “Champion of Change” For Its Contribution to Sustainable Transportation
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 for its unique ratings system designed to certify sustainable roadway and transportation projects. The Champions of Change program was created as an opportunity for the White house to feature groups of Americans – individuals, businesses and organizations – who are doing… View More
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UW Spin-out NanoFacture Gives Researchers a Low-Cost Alternative to Purifying DNA Samples; Targets $3 Billion Device Market
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 global market for sample preparation devices and disposables in 2013. The median recurring annual sample preparation budget for reagents and kits is $5K to $10K per lab. NanoFacture, a new UW spin-out, is bringing to market a technology that addresses the… View More
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UW Medicine’s interactive training arms physicians with knowledge to curb prescription drug abuse
Washington, Oregon, Colorado and Idaho now form the newest hub for the highest rates of painkiller abuse, according to data released earlier this year by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA). “We have been confronting this epidemic of opioid abuse by broadening the scope of our educational content about best practice care of chronic pain and extending our outreach by making our… View More
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16th annual UW Biz Plan Competition is underway; 91 submissions whittled to 37 teams in first round
The UW Business Plan Competition, now celebrating its 16th year, brings student-entrepreneurs with the passion, acumen, and big ideas together with judges from the Northwest entrepreneurial community in a multi-stage, real-world challenge. This year’s 91 submissions “demonstrate the remarkable creativity of students and their ability to pinpoint business opportunities ranging from health care, clean tech and consumer products, to micro hotels and 3-D printing,” said… View More
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BEAT BioTherapeutics Corporation closes $2.5MM Seed Financing to develop its gene therapy treatment for heart failure
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 gene therapy to improve cardiac performance in the setting of heart failure, today announced the closing of a $2.5 million seed stage investment with funding provided by CET Capital Partners. Participating investors include the W Fund. The proceeds will be used… View More
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Evening Magazine features “Inventions that came from UW”
Check out this recent story on Evening Magazine featuring inventions that changed the world that came out of the University of Washington. In addition to heavyweight innovations like the vaccine for Hepatitis B and long-term kidney dialysis, UW inventors discovered vinyl records, the color TV picture tube, and disposable diapers.
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UW Music Professor’s Invention Featured on KUOW Interview with Dave Beck
Award-winning KUOW producer Dave Beck produced a story on UW Professor Michael Brockman‘s invention called the Broctave Key, a new piston-style, push-button vent designed to improve the intonation of the saxaphone and other woodwinds. The story aired on KUOW’s Morning Edition on April 10, 2013. Read the story or listen to the audio recording here: “Seattle Inventor Finds Key to Solving Saxophone Discord” Brockman is… View More
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