Global University Venturing

Richard Holliday has cofounded and invested in university spinouts.

Corporate venture capital is now a common sight on the cap tables of university spinouts.

Nofar Schnider cofounded and manages NuVC, a community of VC professionals in Israel.

The fund will target AI research emerging from Canada's big research universities.

The university is looking to widen funding further by engaging with corporations and global accelerator programmes such as TechStars.

The Venture Builder Incubator is part of Edinburgh Innovations, the university's commercialisation service.

The university provides seed and early-stage funding to its spinouts.

The US Ivy League institution has had some recent successful exits of life science spinouts.

University funds have been proven to increase the rate of spinout creation, and many institutions, especially in Asia, are setting them up to help accelerate commercialisation of their research.

Several companies originating in academic labs were acquired this year in billion dollar plus transactions.

Japan has a strong network of university-affiliated funds. These are now looking to back corporate carve-outs, too.