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Big Idea Ventures launches $125m fund to help fund food & ag startups commercializing ‘groundbreaking’ IP developed at universities By Elaine Watson Recognizing that breakthrough technologies that could transform the global food supply chain often originate in academia, Big Idea Ventures has launched a $125m fund to commercialize IP from some of the nation’s leading universities and fuel economic development in rural communities across the country.
The Generation Food Rural Partners (GFRP) fund – which is teaming up with
North Carolina State University as its inaugural collaborator - will work with multiple universities to identify research with the strongest commercialization potential and then invest in new companies formed around that research, said