Global University Venturing and sister title Global University Venturing analysed last year’s data to identify the top corporate investors in university spinouts. Looking at global spinout deals, the vast majority of investments by number were made by non-corporations, such as universities, their tech transfer offices and funds, angels, governments or venture capital firms.
Of the venture capital firms, the majority of deals were made by firms that specialise in spinouts, such as UK-based IP Group, which was involved in 10 deals (increasing to 11 if we add…
