Global University Venturing

The UK university has ramped up partnerships with corporates and opened global offices in a bid to improve the success of its spinouts.

Funds are welcoming corporate investors with open arms as the university spinout sector reaches a level of maturity where exits are expected to ramp up.

The new North America University Innovations Fund will invest in technologies coming out of federal research and university labs.

The CEO of the university spinout fund is leaving at the end of this year.

The foundation backs Georgia Institute of Technology's spinouts in areas including medtech, robotics, AI, marketplaces and defence.

Despite US-China tensions. the fund has a diverse LP base from with about half the funding from Greater China, sitting alongside backers from Southeast Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the US.

The VC firm is raising money from investors for its second UK spinout fund.

The US university has partnered with a Silicon Valley-based VC firm to manage the investment fund.

Early-stage VC Velocity manage the independently run fund, which backs spinouts from the Canadian university.

Tech transfer arm Edinburgh Innovations has created a new role of director of venture creation to increase the number of companies it spins out.

The British Business Bank plans to invest in university spinout investment funds outside of the Golden Triangle.