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Global University Venturing

South Africa gears up for $10.2m fund

South Africa's academic tech transfer sector will be supported by a $10.2m vehicle backed by the $96m SA SME Fund.


Jun 18, 2019

St Gallen scheme ratifies 122 spinouts

The "Spin-Off Universität St. Gallen" label has been granted to 122 spinouts over the past two years, with 22 of those remaining based in the city.

Jun 18, 2019

UA dusts down Clean Earth Tech

Clean Earth Tech will commercialise a dust suppressant polymer invented by Minkyu Kim at UA's College of Engineering.

Jun 18, 2019

Daily deal net: June 17, 2019

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

Jun 17, 2019

Kiadis calls up Cytosen

University of Central Florida's Cytosen has been acquired in an all-stock deal by Kiadis Pharma, in a transaction potentially worth up to $70m.

Jun 17, 2019

Corporates align with Purigen in series B round

Roche participated in the Agilent Technologies-led round, which will fund the launch of Stanford spinout Purigen's isotachophoresis-based DNA and RNA sample preparation platform.

Jun 17, 2019

Startups roam to MSU’s Conquer Accelerator

Conquer's participants could secure $20,000 in convertible funding, and would join the portfolio of MSU-run Red Cedar Ventures upon graduation.

Jun 14, 2019

Edge Case secures $7m

CMU's Edge Case Research has raised capital from Ansys, Lockheed Martin and Liberty Mutual to use AI for solving complex safety issues in autonomous technologies.

Jun 14, 2019

Exscientia extracts GT Apeiron partnership

Dundee-founded drug discovery company Exscientia has entered into a collaboration agreement with GT Apeiron, whose parent GT Healthcare invested in the spinout’s series B round.

Jun 14, 2019

IP Group signs Hynes

Aedhmar Hynes, former CEO of digital communications agency Text100, will join IP Group as an independent director on August 1.

Jun 14, 2019

UK fires up $193m quantum program

Spinouts are in line to receive a share of the government funding to advance quantum applications spanning computing, imaging, sensors and communications.

Jun 14, 2019

Schoppe to chair Autm Foundation

Laura Schoppe, founder of tech transfer consultancy Fuentek, will chair the board of Autm Foundation, which builds awareness and support for initiatives run by Autm.

Jun 13, 2019
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