Stanford’s nonprofit accelerator StartX nabs $800K funding grant

August 23, 2012 9:30 AM Christina Farr
Christina Farr

This accelerator provides student entrepreneurs with housing, office space, cash stipends, advice, and mentorship -- much like storied Y Combinator ("YC") program, except its entrepreneurs won't need to hand off a piece of their company.

Profectus Bio wins $200K grant for HIV therapies

July 21, 2007 10:42 AM David P. Hamilton

Baltimore, Md.-based Profectus BioSciences, a biotech developing new strategies to attack HIV, received a $200,000 small-business innovation grant from the National Institutes of Health to improve the effectiveness of anti-HIV antibodies. Last month, the company received a similar $300,000 grant …