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Carnegie Mellon queues with NoWait

Carnegie Mellon University backs NoWait, set up by alumnus Robb Myer, in a $2m round.

Aug 30, 2012

Coursera wins university investment

Caltech and Pennsylvania back on-line teaching company Coursera, which just won the praise of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.

Jul 18, 2012

Revolymer sticks to AIM in IPO

Revolymer, which makes chewing gum that is easier to remove from streets and pavements, was backed by the Setsquared Partnership, a joint venture capital initiative between Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey.

Jul 16, 2012

Michigan University backs Jack & Jake's

The university's social venture fund backs the sustainable food company.

Jul 11, 2012

St Louis' Billiken backs YourEvent.com

St Louis University's alumni's Billiken Angels Network backs a photo sharing company set up by one of the US-based university's graduates.

Jul 4, 2012

Dysonics is first graduate from UC Davis incubator

The audio technology company emerges with $750,000 of angel funding less than a year after entering the incubator.

May 23, 2012

Innovacorp backs Equals6

Innovacorp's Greg Phipps said the graduate job hunter-targeted site bridges a gap between the professional networking of LinkedIn and the "purely social networking of Facebook".

May 21, 2012

Musselman joins Carnegie Speech

Paul Musselman, formerly of Intel Capital and IBM's corporate development team, takes the top role at the language learning start-up, which spun off from Carnegie Mellon University.

May 9, 2012

Grandma service wins BizAsia Japan

The plan Obachyan no Bentoya (Grandma's Lunchbox Delivery Van) won based on a business model that would enlist older women to cook, then deliver lunch and dinner boxes (bentos) initially to temporary housing, and then later throughout Northern Japan.

Jan 16, 2012

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