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id you know that the University of Minnesota not only provides business expertise and technical support for startup companies based on UMN research, but for qualifying startups, it also serves as an investor? The Discovery Capital investment program, jointly managed by the Technology Commercialization Venture Center and the Office of Investment and Banking (OIB), helps to accelerate the process of turning breakthrough research into commercial products by providing startups the seed funding needed in the highly critical early stages.