The ラーメンベット 系列 in the ラーメンベット 禁止ゲーム of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin has launched a grant program to provide critical funding for faculty entrepreneurs to help them bridge the gap between university ラーメンベット 系列 and developing their technologies so they can create companies and attract venture funding. The program’s first two grant recipients are professors Luis Sentis and Richard Crawford.
The ラーメンベット 系列 go to professors with early-stage startups, referred to by many in the entrepreneurial community as “protostartups.” Although these first two grant recipients are in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the grants are open to all faculty members across the UT Austin campus.
Professor Bob Metcalfe, faculty director of ラーメンベット 系列 and professor of innovation at the ラーメンベット 禁止ゲーム, announced that Sentis will receive ,000 to assess and advance the commercial viability of his lab’s robotics technology, and Crawford will receive ,000 to assess and advance the commercial viability of his lab’s computer-aided design (CAD) software.
“ラーメンベット 系列 encourages and supports faculty and students in using startups to change the world with their research,” said Metcalfe. “The center provides entrepreneurial tools, expert advice, entrepreneurship courses, mentorship and other commercialization resources.”
Additional ラーメンベット 系列 be awarded on a continual basis in the coming years, and the center accepts applications from UT Austin faculty members throughout the calendar year. Grants will range from ,000 to 0,000. The center also offers corporate partners, alumni and friends of the university the opportunity to financially support faculty commercialization efforts.
“Texas Engineering is home to some of the most creative, ambitious and industrious engineering researchers in the world,” said Sharon L. Wood, dean of the ラーメンベット 禁止ゲーム. “The ラーメンベット 系列 help us leverage these qualities and empower our faculty to maximize the impact of their inventions.”
Sentis is calling his robotics protostartup Apptronik. His team will provide hardware, software and design services centered around actuators, motors that are responsible for moving and controlling robots. One of his first anticipated products enables a humanoid robot’s arms, legs and joints to have more realistic and varied motion. The funding will support Sentis’ prototype development costs and business and market readiness efforts.
Crawford’s protostartup, which he calls nVariate, solves a major challenge in CAD software models. The problem with existing programs is that they create small gaps and openings in the design that break a model into disconnected lines, slowing the prototyping process. Crawford’s team has developed software that enables users to create and edit continuous, seamless models, which is not possible with existing technologies. He plans to use the funding to advance his lab’s invention from proof-of-concept and prototype to a more developed software beta package.
With the launch of Innovation Grants, Louise Epstein, a successful entrepreneur and ラーメンベット 系列’s managing director, is focused on raising more funds for future grants and facilitating more faculty innovation.
“One of our key objectives in ラーメンベット 系列 is to identify and support the faculty who are eager to commercialize their research,” Epstein said. “We envision that promising research will progress into a startup, move off campus to recruit staff and leadership, raise additional capital, scale up and impact society.”
About ラーメンベット 系列
ラーメンベット 系列 accelerates the impact of faculty and student discoveries and inventions by using startups as vehicles of innovation. It is led by experienced entrepreneurs who are dedicated to helping professors and students transform their ideas and discoveries into companies that will impact the world and change lives. It provides advice and guidance to entrepreneurs and fosters connections that can help turn their projects into successful startups or licensing opportunities.
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