London universities are among the most prolific in the UK for producing spinouts but unlike Oxford and Cambridge, have lacked a single, dedicated organisation to promote spinout investment.

UK universities have also reduced their average equity stakes to new a new low.

Anchor investor Shanghai Industrial Investment targets opportunities in biomedical sectors, including neurodegeneration and gene therapy.

Half of the spinouts from the universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey raised seed funding in 2024.

The London university has seen a surge in applications to commercialise artificial intelligence-related technologies.

With a £15m commitment, Aviva’s investment in Cambridge Innovation Capital’s new Opportunity Fund marks its continuing backing of the Cambridge startup ecosystem

The small German academic institution generates an outsize number of unicorns.

The US university claims to be ranked second in the US for company formation.

The investment fund will mostly back founders from the US university.

Many of the UK's universities have adopted recommendations to lower equity stakes in the companies they commercialise to at or below 25%.