Provides VIN Members Early Liquidity Options FAYETTEVILLE, AR. DECEMBER 14, 2020- The VIC Investor Network (“VIN”) makes investments into companies based on technologies that can have substantial impact on human health...
FDA’s BDD program targets novel devices with the potential to provide patients with a more effective treatment for life-threatening or irreversibly debilitating diseases. SFC’s insulin pod promises to substantially...
Arkansas-based cleantech company tapped to lead Chart’s global water and wastewater treatment markets Water cleantech company BlueInGreen, LLC—provider of the most efficient method of dissolving oxygen, carbon dioxide...
VIC Technology Venture Development’s (www.victech.com) investment model sources promising life science innovation directly from universities across the nation, allocating funding to form startup companies and advance...
The VIC Fellows Program provides an opportunity for individuals with relevant expertise and interest to learn how to identify and evaluate promising innovation from global sources. We are pleased to highlight the...
Combines Tesseract’s engineered product innovations and Cymat’s stabilized aluminum foam in automotive, aerospace, transportation, nuclear transport, military and defense applications.
What is VIC Foundry? VIC Foundry is one element of the VIC innovation ecosystem. It develops technologies sourced from top research institutions in the U.S. with the potential to have substantial impact and commercial...
A Discussion with BlueInGreen Chief Marketing + Sustainability Officer Tyler Elm For those unfamiliar with BlueInGreen, tell us a little about the Company. BlueInGreen (BIG) is a remarkable, water clean-tech company....
The VIC Fellows Program was created in late 2019 as a mechanism for individuals with specific expertise to learn about and be involved in identifying and evaluating promising life science innovations from universities,...
VIC is pleased to work with OmniValley in supporting their mission to better connect fund and startup company investors to one another. OmniValley is an exclusive, online investor network built to offer connections for...
When I wrote about fundraising early this year, I knew that I would be raising a round shortly, but had no idea I would be doing it in a changed COVID-19 world. I have experienced two unexpected recessions as an...
How do you successfully evaluate hundreds of complicated technologies each year, with a team spread across the country and resources that span the globe? This was the challenge that VIC needed to solve back in early...
TEXAS – July 29, 2020 – Solenic Medical, a developer of a device that uses alternating magnetic fields to treat a prosthetic joint infections (PJI) announced today that it has received Breakthrough Device designation...
SeedSprint is the innovation ecosystem that connects emerging technologies with industry partners. The platform is free for emerging technology companies and research institutions and available to industry at a flat...
So far, in 2020, VIC’s portfolio of companies reached numerous milestones and potential business partners are increasingly finding ways to re-engage in spite of the ongoing pandemic. The VIC Foundry has expanded...
Last month at Vixiar Medical, we reached a major milestone on the road to commercial launch of our Indicor™ device with the submission of our 510(k) to the FDA. We hope to have clearance to market our product in the...
Update It is now March 2021, and nine months after writing this piece below, saying that things have evolved would be an understatement. Focusing on the positive progress made to date, we have three approved vaccines in...
As the recent pandemic has made all too clear, organizations need to proactively prepare for the realities of a dispersed workforce, which is especially true for investor groups such as venture capital and private...
AURORA, CO - Neurexis Therapeutics, Inc. announced today that it has been approved for funding as part of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade’s (OEDIT) Advanced Industries Accelerator...
FAYETTEVILLE, AR - Zebra Analytix—a VIC Technology Venture Development portfolio company—announced today that it has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institute of...
The VIC Fellows Program was created in late 2019 as a mechanism for individuals with specific expertise to learn about and be involved in identifying and evaluating promising life science innovations from universities,...
VIC Technology Venture Development primarily is focused on building companies around high-impact life science technologies, including medical devices, therapeutics, diagnostics, and advanced instrumentation. More than...
This month, CardioWise filed a 510(k) Application for its machine learning-based heart health analysis software known as SQuEEZTM. The software, combined with cardiac computerized tomography (CT) imaging, has the...
Startups are known to be roller coaster rides, but what do you get when you launch an automotive industry startup? A really wild ride! The past year or so has indeed been a wild ride since I took over as CEO of...
With workers, communities and corporations around the globe joining the battle against COVID-19, one company is attacking the virus from an unexpected angle: water.
Our current daily activities bear little resemblance to the routines as of as recently as a month ago. COVID-19 has had an obvious and significant impact on the American people. For those suffering from chronic...
“Did you eat too much candy as a child?” “You don’t look diabetic…you are not at all overweight.” “You just have to watch your sugar intake, right?” These are typical, insensitive comments that people with diabetes...
Neurexis Therapeutics, Inc. to develop a new medication for the prevention of brain damage following ischemic events such as stroke
The VIC Fellows Program was created as a mechanism through which individuals with specific expertise can learn about and be involved in the process of identifying and evaluating promising life science innovation from...
Company co-founded with Reza Foudazi, PhD, developer of a platform membrane technology with broad applications in bioprocessing and industrial filtration.
Startups are pulling outsized financing rounds and debt acquisitions at an unprecedented rate despite the high 80 percent failure rate of startups overall. Among the three primary reasons why startups tend to fail,...
Can you tell us a little bit about your background and experience? I was a founder and CEO of a pharmaceutical manufacturing company, and then took over and grew a nonprofit medical technology incubator, helping others...
In the past year, VIC’s portfolio of companies reached numerous milestones, the VIC Investor Network (VIN) experienced its first exit, and we added important new elements to the VIC ecosystem. While progress in 2019 was...
Please start off by describing your current role with Biolocity and the organization’s unique model. I am the Managing Director for Biolocity, which is a philanthropic, multi-institutional program that accelerates the...
For decades, only venture capital (VC) firms, and very rarely, angels were able to invest in start-up companies developing life science—therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics, and related—innovation. Anyone doing so...
Welcome to the 20s! To my ears, 2020 sounds very futuristic – but we are living it. The pace of technological change continues to accelerate and have profound impact on all of us. VIC’s motto is Technology Solutions for...
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