Global University Venturing

Just ahead of our third annual GCV Israel conference, we take a quick look at corporates’ interest in the rich venturing and innovation scene of Israel.

GUV’s annual review shows the ecosystem is in outstanding shape despite of all the doom and gloom in many financial papers.

Is the glass half full or half empty for UK research commercialisation, asks Mike Rees in a lecture for National Centre for Universities and Business.

With VC investors contemplating failure at WeWork, universities could stand to benefit from their reputation in science, technology and business.

SoftBank and WeWork cast the biggest shadow, but the year saw a raft of huge corporate-backed IPOs while fintech and Latin America each had a big 12 months.

January 2020 issue editorial by Thierry Heles, editor, Global University Venturing

Saint Louis University spinout BioIntervene will use the capital to fund phase 1 trials for its non-addictive painkillers later this year.

Sue Siegel, who featured on GCV's Powerlist five times from 2014 to 2019, has won the Lifetime Achievement Award 2020 for service to the venture and innovation ecosystem.

The university formed 23 new spinouts in 2019, while a total of 33 companies raised a combined $292m – an amount only beaten by 2016’s record-holding $408m.

The inflammatory disease therapy developer emerged from stealth to commercialise research from several Max Planck institutes and LDC.

Ahead of our record-breaking GCV Innovation Summit in California this week, we are offering an excerpt from our latest World of Corporate Venturing 2020, analysing data from 2019 and the past decade, where we have combined data from GCV Analytics and data provider PitchBook.