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Global University Venturing

UniSA Ventures appoints Perera

Viraj Perera has joined University of South Australia's commercialisation arm as CEO after five years leading Platcom Ventures for National Innovation Agency of Malaysia.


Jul 16, 2019

NYU opens Endless Frontier Labs

Endless Frontier Labs will operate as a nine-month accelerator initiative set up in place of the defunct CDL-NYC partnership with University of Toronto.

Jul 16, 2019

Sam Labs latches onto $8.9m

ICL and Royal College of Art-founded edtech developer Sam Labs has now raised $19.8m in all to sustain the growth of its coding education kit business.

Jul 16, 2019

Vasopharm vamps up $10.7m

Entrepreneurs Fund’s EF Investments and Bayern Kapital contributed to a round that increased Würzburg-founded traumatic brain injury drug developer Vasopharm’s total to above $57.8m.

Jul 15, 2019

Paragraf packs in another $16m

Parkwalk Advisors has led a funding round for University of Cambridge's graphene technology business Paragraf, which will use the money to increase its headcount.

Jul 15, 2019

Daily deal net: July 12, 2019

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Jul 12, 2019

Rosalind Franklin ramps up biosciences incubator

Rosalind Franklin University has kicked off a bioscience incubator by welcoming its first two residents, while also announcing the appointment of Rosalind Franklin as its president and CEO.

Jul 12, 2019

Codon calls up Rooke and Holloway

University of Cambridge-allied accelerator Start Codon has appointed Daniel Rooke and Sakura Holloway to its team, as it prepares to select the first five projects for its initial cohort.

Jul 12, 2019

IQM Finland collects $13m

Quantum computing technology spinout IQM Finland’s scientific operation is helmed by the professor who launched Aalto University’s quantum computing devices group.

Jul 12, 2019

Daily deal net: July 11, 2019

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Jul 11, 2019

Bolt puts $68m in its basket

A host of individuals connected with the e-commerce industry have supplied capital, enabling Stanford-linked company Bolt to target its next phase of expansion.

Jul 11, 2019

Purdue invention disclosures reach new high

Purdue’s commercialisation unit witnessed the equivalent of almost one invention per day during the 2018-2019 fiscal year, spawning 48 new business of which 17 were based on the university’s research.

Jul 11, 2019
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