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Rice University Launches One Giant Leap Ventures Startup Fund

Original: Rice launches One Giant Leap Ventures to back promising startups across university ecosystem

Rice University has launched One Giant Leap Ventures, a new venture initiative to invest in and support promising startups emerging from across the university's ecosystem. The effort aims to back ventures founded by students, faculty and alumni, strengthening Rice's role in turning campus research into commercial companies.

Why now: Universities increasingly compete to commercialize research, so a new institutional venture fund draws attention from the startup and higher-education communities.

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