Business

News about UB’s business and economics programs and our partnerships with industry. (see all topics)

Panasci winners top New York Business Plan Competition
5/1/18
A team of UB electrical engineering and MBA students took the $20,000 grand prize.
Digital guitar tech shreds to victory in UB entrepreneurship competition
4/11/18
More than $60K in startup funding and services awarded.
UB-affiliated artificial intelligence startup raises $900,000 in seed round to advance driverless boat technology
4/10/18
Buffalo Automation — founded in 2015 by UB engineering students — has grown into one of the region’s most promising startups.
Blackstone and Techstars partner to support student entrepreneurs globally
3/9/18
Leading programs team up to build the largest global network of college entrepreneurs.
Fifteen ways UB researchers changed the world — and made headlines — in 2017
12/27/17
From developing a pneumonia vaccine to desalinating water with the sun, here are some highlights from a year of discovery.
Buffalo-based startup POP BIO partners with int’l pharma companies
12/18/17
The UB spinoff’s biotechnology boosts immune responses against diseases.
UB’s first annual Entrepreneurs Festival is Thursday
9/12/17
Goal is to let students know about the help available and to inspire them to start a business.
UB awarded $10 million grant to drive industry partnerships and innovation
8/21/17
The award, for UB CAT, is a boost to startups and mid-to-late stage companies.
Preventing employee theft before it begins
6/28/17
Buffalo-based firm FiduciaSolutions has designed a fraud-defense system embraced by United Way Worldwide.
KeepTruckin likes what it found in Western New York
5/26/17
UB helped KeepTruckin get situated in the START UP-NY program and continues to assist with engineering graduates.

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