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Global University Venturing
Insead to support female entrepreneurs
The Soraya Salti Social Impact Scholarship Fund targets young female entrepreneurs in the Middle East, South Asia and Africa regions.
Dec 18, 2015Sophia diagnoses success in $15m series C
Swisscom-backed medicine analytics platform Sophia Genetics has secured new funding, taking its overall equity capital to more than $31m.
Dec 18, 2015AstraZeneca to inject $2.5bn in Acerta
The deal would give AstraZeneca a majority stake of 55% and value the anti-cancer drug developer at approximately $7bn.
Dec 18, 20152015 round up: Salesforce Ventures
Salesforce's corporate venturing unit invested larger amounts in 2015, building up a stable of enterprise IT unicorns as its strategic VC model began to be widely replicated.
Dec 18, 20152015 round up: Tencent
The internet portal invested heavily in food delivery, ride hailing and ticketing as it seeked to build out the services linked to its extremely popular WeChat messaging app.
Dec 17, 2015Microtransponder signals $5.5m round
Texas spinout Microtransponder raises $5.5m as it successfully completes a trial for a treatment for stroke patients.
Dec 16, 20152015 round up: SoftBank
SoftBank is winding down corporate venturing vehicle SoftBank Capital in favour of fewer, bigger investments as it looks to replicate its Alibaba investment.
Dec 16, 2015Barnes bids UCL goodbye
University College London announces that its director of UCL Enterprise Operations and director of UCL Advances, Timothy Barnes, is to step down at the end of the year.
Dec 15, 2015Karolinska appoints Drvota as chief investment officer
Viktor Drvota joins Karolinska Development as its chief investment officer, leaving his role as head of life science at SEB Venture Capital.
Dec 15, 2015Featured Content
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Corporate collaboration with universities: How to commercialise innovative research
Beyond the Breakthrough PodcastExplore the BTB podcast archive with the world's brightest minds in university innovation answering the question: how does research make it from a lab into the real world?Beyond the Breakthrough Podcast
Explore the BTB podcast archive with the world's brightest minds in university innovation answering the question: how does research make it from a lab into the real world?
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