Global University Venturing

The university is the latest academic institution in the Asian country to launch an investment fund to support spinouts.

The UK university has set up physical presence in San Francisco to be closer to US investors and companies it seeks to partner with.

Half of all of the energy startups raising money from corporate investors in 2024 tapped up companies outside the energy sector.

The students have faced a three-year journey to raise money for the planned $1m venture fund.

Japan is second only to the US when it comes to spacetech startups raising funding from the corporate sector.

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The universities of Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland and Teesside are the latest group of academic institutions in the UK to launch a fund to invest in their spinouts.

While universities often push their academics to be more entrepreneurial, having a professor lead a spinout decreases its chances of raising money and being acquired, according to research by Harvard associate professor Maria Roche.

Under pressure to simplify supply chains and improve sustainability, Nupo Ventures is building startups, with six under its belt so far.

Japan's sophisticated network of university investment funds make it an outlier among other Asian countries.

Smaller companies build their own ventures more than larger corporates and the chief executive is more involved with the CVC, according to GCV's Keystone benchmarking survey.