Among the $97 million in federal earmarks secured by Delaware’s delegation late last year is about $7.4 million to support the development or expansion of five incubator or accelerator programs […]
WILMINGTON – Carbon Reform, a startup working on carbon capture and air quality technology for commercial HVAC units, has closed a $3 million seed investment round. Founded in 2020 by […]
WILMINGTON – Inventia Life Science, a promising Australian biotechnology company, has opened its first U.S. office and facility in Delaware, leasing space at the Delaware Innovation Space on the DuPont […]
WILMINGTON – The Class of 2022 for the Delaware Business Hall of Fame will feature a cross-section of Delaware’s economy, with longtime leaders from the construction, banking and sciences industries. […]
WILMINGTON – Napigen, an agricultural technology and genetics startup firm, has raised $7.85 million in its initial seed funding round, officials announced this week. Co-founded in 2016 and led by […]
WILMINGTON – In 2016, a coalition of some of the First State’s most powerful and influential leaders came together in a brick building at the eastern edge of the historic […]
NEWARK – Versogen, a startup spun out of the work of a University of Delaware professor that seeks to build scalable “green” hydrogen production, recently landed its first round of […]
WILMINGTON – The private biopharmaceutical startup NiKang Therapeutics announced Tuesday that it has signed a licensing agreement for one of its small-molecule therapy drugs in China, marking its second such […]
NEWARK – Charles Riordan, the University of Delaware’s vice president for research, scholarship and innovation who has been instrumental in the success and expansion of the STAR Campus, will leave […]
WILMINGTON – A recent state report underlined the growing importance and impact of pharmaceutical, biotechnology and health care research firms collectively known as life sciences in Delaware, an industry that […]
WILMINGTON – Cancer research company Prelude Therapeutics recently secured $5.5 million in state taxpayer-backed grants to move to new, larger labs and more than double its workforce in the state. […]
WILMINGTON – For the first time in much of its four-year history, the public-private business incubator Delaware Innovation Space will be able to manage the future of nearly half of […]
WILMINGTON – Adesis, the contract chemistry research, development and manufacturing firm that has grown rapidly over the last decade, announced this week that it has nearly tripled its leased lab […]
WILMINGTON – As the world begins working toward reducing greenhouse gases that are leading to climate change, industries are going to face a number of challenges to eliminate the harmful […]
By Michael Fleming The extraordinarily successful initial public offering by Prelude Therapeutics (PRLD) last month made clear investors’ immense confidence in prospects for the Wilmington biopharmaceutical company. Prelude’s market capitalization […]
WILMINGTON – The Delaware Innovation Space, a 3-year-old nonprofit incubator and accelerator formed by the state, DuPont, and the University of Delaware, now has another role: investor. The Innovation Space […]
From the earliest scientific advancements made at DuPont more than two centuries ago to the brand-new cancer therapies being developed by Incyte, Delaware has a long history of laboratory-based research […]
WILMINGTON – Prelude Therapeutics, a private biotechnology startup company headquartered at the Delaware Innovation Space, has set its sights on a $150 million initial public offering (IPO), increasing the sale […]
Delaware’s landscape of private funders keeps growing For those hoping to start and grow businesses in Delaware, there are plenty of opportunities to find the funding necessary to succeed. The state […]
By Dora Cheatham As my cat makes its way across my computer keyboard for the fifth time this morning, it is redundant to say that the last few weeks our […]
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