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The Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) and Ignite Social Impact (Ignite) have partnered with Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC), a non-profit organization behind the world’s biggest startup competition that aims to help startups change the world for the better.
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The Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) and Ignite Social Impact (Ignite) have partnered with Bethesda Green, a nonprofit that works to address environmental challenges locally by creating a sustainable, green community, built collaboratively through citizen engagement, environmental education, government partnership and innovative business development.
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The Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) and Ignite Social Impact (Ignite) have partnered with the U.S. Coalition on Sustainability (USCS), a non-profit organization dedicated to unifying and accelerating humanity’s progress toward achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.
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The Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI), Made Noble Corporation, Ignite Social Impact (Ignite), and Sustain Equity, LLC signed a memorandum of understanding partnering to connect tech-for-good entrepreneurs with technologies, mentorship, and capital.
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Conservation X Labs, Ignite Social Impact, and the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) signed a memorandum of understanding to partner to advance “tech for good.”
Conservation X Labs is a Washington, DC-based technology and innovation company that creates solutions to stop the extinction crisis.
OpenGrants, (CAI), and Ignite Social Impact have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signifying their alignment to support deep technology, high-impact startups. OpenGrants is a California-based software company that offers streamlined grant application and management services for startups, CAI is a Maryland-based non-profit that launches startups around promising inventions
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HealthTech Arkansas and the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) have partnered to work together with healthcare researchers and early-stage companies to drive innovation in clinical environments. The Center for Advancing Innovation launches startups around promising inventions in order to unleash life-changing inventions with exponential impact.
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The Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) and CODAME are partnering to unite artists with high-tech ventures. Cultivating “art spirit” in startups poises them for long-term success. They’re better equipped to navigate uncertainty, make meaningful pivots, and ship disruptive solutions. Nurturing the humanities in high tech is essential to solving global-scale problems.
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The Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI), the world’s largest virtual startup challenge-based accelerator, announced today a collaboration with Johnson & Johnson Innovation, JLABS to provide at least one startup from CAI’s Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge lab and/or office space at JLABS @ TMC in Houston.
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Founders gain access to capital-efficient, commercially viable inventions from federal labs through two complementary accelerator programs from the Center for Advancing Innovation and Founder Institute. The CAI, which leads the world’s preeminent global challenge-accelerator program to commercialize federally funded inventions, announced a new partnership.
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The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), the world’s largest biotech trade association, is teaming up with CAI to engage the biotech community and assist in promoting the Freedom from Cancer Startup Challenge (FCSC), a unique initiative designed to advance and commercialize 100 cancer inventions for the prevention, detection, and treatment of cancer.
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AngelSpan, the leading provider of investor relations services for early-stage companies, today announced an alliance with The Center for Advancing Innovation, a cutting-edge organization that has “cracked the code” on tech transfer and breakthrough commercialization.
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Oxford Global Ventures and the Center for Advancing Innovation announce a partnership to utilize CAI’s technology curation efforts to spur on entrepreneurial ideas and growth within the OGV ecosystem.
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The Heritage Provider Network, National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) are partnering to launch the Brain Challenge in order to launch new startups around 20 promising NIH inventions. This challenge will accelerate the commercialization of Federal agency brain- related inventions, spur economic growth, & provide Universities a platform to further develop their entrepreneurship learning portfolio.
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The Avon Foundation (AF), National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute (NCI) & Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) have partnered to launch a “first of a kind” Business Plan and Start-Up Challenge for Breast Cancer (BC) inventions that have high commercial viability and are important to public health. This challenge will accelerate the commercialization of Federal agency and AF grantee BC inventions, spur economic growth, & provide Universities a platform to further develop their entrepreneurship learning portfolio.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is launching “Startup NASA”, a new initiative to encourage the use of federally funded technologies by start-up companies. “Startup NASA” includes the opportunity for new companies to license NASA technologies with no up-front payment and kicks off an effort with the Center for Advancing Innovation (CAI) to encourage more space technology spin-offs by entrepreneurs. Startup NASA helps address two of the biggest challenges faced by start-up companies: raising capital and securing intellectual property rights. By eliminating up-front licensing fees, NASA is letting new companies hold onto their cash while securing the intellectual property rights needed to secure their competitive market space. This benefit is available to companies formed to commercialize NASA technology. In addition, to foster the creation of new start-up companies and encourage adoption of NASA technologies, NASA will work with the CAI to run a multi-phase business plan competition in 2016.
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The Medical Center of the Americas (MCA) Foundation, a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization, is focused on creating a world class medical center to foster and accelerate biomedical innovation, creating new employment opportunities while meeting healthcare needs of the Paso del Norte region (the larger cross-border region of El Paso County; Doña Ana County, New Mexico; and Juárez, Mexico). The MCA is spearheading this regional initiative with the development of the Cardwell Collaborative biomedical research and commercialization building, the SPACE RACE and many other programs.
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