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Today is the deadline to apply for the Blavatnik Fund for Innovation at Yale. If you have a project in therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics, clinical innovation, or research tools, please submit your application by 5PM today for the chance to receive an award up to $300K.
The Roberts Innovation Fund, a new initiative launched in 2022 to accelerate the engine of innovation at the Yale School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, is accepting applications from Yale investigators working in data-intensive domains such as artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, trustworthy computing, and computational modeling. Participants will receive funding of up to $150K as well as expert industry feedback and mentorship.
And finally, save the dates for our two biggest annual events convening the Yale innovation community:
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Yale Lifesciences PitchFest, December 8, 2022: spotlighting Yale’s most promising life science innovators. Please register now!
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Yale Innovation Summit on May 31 - June 1, 2023: we’re expanding our event with tracks in the arts, biotech, climate, health, and technology. If you’re an investor, entrepreneur, innovator or industry leader, you won’t want to miss these two days of impactful conversations and networking.
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Josh Geballe
Managing Director, Yale Ventures
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Deadline to Apply is today at 5PM
Applications close today at 5PM EDT!
We are returning to an IN-PERSON Yale Lifesciences Pitchfest on Thursday Dec 8th.
By applying, this is your chance to pitch your idea to prospective industry partners including Merck, J&J, Sanofi, Lilly Asia Ventures, Arch Ventures, Polaris Partners, Vida Ventures, OrbiMed, F-Prime Capital, RA Capital, Solasta Ventures, Rallybio, Osage University Partners, 5amVentures, CT Innovations, Elm Street Ventures, and many more.
Have you prepared your 5-minute pitch? It's quick an easy. What happens after the application is submitted?
Quarterfinalists will be selected and invited to pitch on the following days to compete for a spot on stage at Yale LifeSciences PitchFest:
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Nov 9: Zoom judging of 5-minute pitches for therapeutics and devices
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Nov 10: Zoom judging of 5-minute pitches in digital health
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Dec 8: Top pitches presented IN-PERSON to industry and investor audience at Yale LifeSciences PitchFest
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January: Finalists selected
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March-April: Finalists pitch to Blavatnik Fund Advisory Board for funding decisions
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June 2023: Funding starts
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Deadline to Apply is November 16
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All Applicants to the Roberts Innovation Fund Receive:
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Thoughtful Feedback: All applicants receive a detailed review of their submission by a member of the Yale Ventures team.
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Access to Early Support: All applicants with viable proposals gain access to a Yale Ventures associate who will dedicate time to relevant activities ranging from initial market research to customer discovery calls and competitive landscape mapping.
- Consideration for Cash Funding: Initial awards up to $150,000.
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World-Class Support: All awardees are matched with a team of EIRs and given tactical support from a dedicated service group inclusive of a venture associate, marketing/design associate and a business development associate.
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Exposure: Increased visibility to potential investors and early employees through associated publicity and events.
Email Claudia Reuter with any questions.
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Inaugural award celebrates faculty entrepreneurs
The Faculty Innovation Awards presented by Yale Ventures recognized twelve Yale faculty who have recently established startups and raised at least $1 million in investment capital in the last year.
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Yale expands IP license income-sharing practices
Effective Oct. 1, the university will distribute 100% of net income generated from new technologies to the Yale researchers and academic units responsible for the inventions, Provost Scott Strobel and Vice Provost for Research Michael C. Crair said in a message to faculty.
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Five Years of Innovation (And More to Come)
In 2017, with a generous donation from the Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation, Tsai CITY began its journey as Yale University’s student hub for creativity and innovation. Over the next five years, the center would flourish into a space where students from all backgrounds and disciplines could come together and access programs, funding, and mentorship.
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News We're Following
Includes: Yale and New Haven Ecosystem News, Spinout News, and more.
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New Haven Ecosystem News:
Green Opportunity: Yale-backed climate tech incubator to focus on addressing global warming, growing New Haven startups
ClimateHaven will be a climate tech incubator and makerspace in downtown New Haven, according to Josh Geballe, managing director of Yale Ventures...
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Yale Spinout News: Normunity launches with $65 million to unleash the immune system on tumors
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Yale Ecosystem News: Three early-career scientists recognized as ‘innovators’
Congratulations, Luisa Escobar-Hoyos and Berna Sozen from Yale University School of Medicine, and Nate Grubaugh from Yale School of Public Health, who are among 72 to receive the award.
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Yale Ecosystem News: Health & Veritas: The Social Entrepreneur's Guide to Making Change
Yale physician-professors Howard Forman and Harlan Krumholz talk about the latest news and ideas in healthcare and seek out the truth amid the noise.
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Yale Ecosystem News: Yale artists launch Midnight Oil Collective to provide creative agency
This summer, Yale-affiliated artists reflected upon equity in the arts, the struggle for artists to procure funding and the influence of businesspeople in artistic projects.
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Lynn Fiellin
Founder of Playbl
Professor of Medicine, Yale Child Study Center, and Public Health
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Q. Tell us about yourself and your work at Yale.
I am a Professor of Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine, the Yale Child Study Center, and at the Yale School of Public Health. As a practicing physician, I still work on the wards and the last 20 years I have been building a research career. In 2009 I launched the play2PREVENT (p2P) Lab at the Yale Center for Health & Learning Games where we develop and evaluate videogames as interventions targeting critical health outcomes in teens. Through our new venture Playbl, which is a Blavatnik Award recipient, we distribute our 5 games, focusing now on educators and schools and then rapidly moving to healthcare settings.
Q. What is Playbl?
Playbl is a new spin-out company from the play2PREVENT (p2P) Lab at the Yale Center for Health & Learning Games that markets and distributes digital health videogames aimed at the critical period of youth, from ages 10-20. We are currently deep into the rigorous evaluation of our fifth game.
Developed in Yale's play2PREVENT Lab with adolescents and tested rigorously, Playbl’s games leverage the power of play in the form of evidence-based, engaging videogame interventions to positively impact adolescent health and well-being. Playbl markets and distributes 5 prevention and wellness videogames targeting issues such as mental health, smoking/vaping, opioid misuse, and HIV prevention and testing, and counseling.
The games are highly accessible and can be played on every platform, giving them great potential for scale, reach, and impact on a national and global level. The lab has to date given over 410,000 logins for our games, an exponential increase for the demand for these games, with the pandemic amplifying their need.
What inspired you to launch Playbl? ...
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