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6 Venture Devils named Venture Madness Finalists
January 23, 2017
Congratulations to the six ASU Venture Devils teams named as finalists in the 2017 Venture Madness competition. The startups below will be competing with some of the top startups in Greater Phoenix.
ASU spinout gets national funding for tissue chip
January 22, 2017
BioSyntagma LLC has received a $213,904 Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Science Foundation.
ASU has role in driving Arizona Innovation
January 22, 2017
When scanning the East Valley’s vibrant business incubator landscape, it can be easy to overlook the granddaddy of them all—Arizona State University. The giant Tempe-based institution has made innovation and

Venture Devils Spotlight: Graphlock, Inc.
January 20, 2017
Venture Name: GraphLock, Inc. Founders: ASU Alumni, Mallory Dryer and Josh Dryer What is Graphlock? GraphLock is a scientific and graphing calculator app with a patent pending Lockdown Mode –
ASU’s free Prepped program helps chefs become business-savvy
January 10, 2017
A new program offered through Entrepreneurship + Innovation at Arizona State University is helping people with food talent gain business skills. Called Prepped, the free, six-week course covers finance, marketing

Venture Devils startup, bioSyntagma, wins NSF grant
January 9, 2017
ASU Venture Devils team, bioSyntagma LLC, was awarded a $213,904 National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation (SBIR) grant to conduct research and development. bioSyntagma is a faculty-based Venture Devil

Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers Award
January 5, 2017
ASU Entrepreneurship + Innovation is continuing to receive prestigious global recognition for their efforts in entrepreneurship. Late last year, ASU received the Global Consortium for Entrepreneurship (GCEC) Award for Outstanding Contribution to Venture Creation.
ASU alum makes it to the Forbes 2017 Class of 30 Under 30
January 3, 2017
ASU alum Vivek Kopparthi has been named to the Forbes 2017 Class of 30 Under 30-Healthcare. Kopparthi, along with ASU alums Chase Garrett, Siva Kumar Palaniswamy and Deepak Krishnaraju, co-founded NeoLight, a
Veterans starting businesses in Phoenix get a helping hand
December 30, 2016
Shakarian joined the military in 1998 and served until 2014. He started out at West Point, then served as a military intelligence officer in Germany, Iraq, New York, and Arizona.