Lab-to-Launch
Funds Virginia startups licensing university innovations for commercialization planning and launch.
Lab-to-Launch is a commercialization grant programme administered by the Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation (VIPC) that awards up to $50,000 to startups licensing intellectual property from one of Virginia's six R1 research universities through the Virginia Fast-Track License process. VIPC is the operating nonprofit of the Virginia Innovation Partnership Authority and serves as the state'…
University-born technologies licensed from one of six Virginia R1 universities via the Fast-Track License process.
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