Global University Venturing

Midlands Mindforge will raise up to $309m, having been co-founded by eight universities located in the UK’s Midlands region.

The pressure on startups to trade off potential security risks of their technology against the competitive need to raise capital is set to grow.

The Michigan-based startup believes a dual-cell, dual chemistry battery pack can dramatically increase the range of electric cars.

The number of startup funding rounds backed by corporate investors dropped 43% year-on-year in February. Deal value was down by two-thirds.

As the Silicon Valley Bank collapse still shakes the industry, corporate investors are finding a voice and stepping up, but must become more transparent.

Regrowing limbs, a cure for AML found at the bottom of the ocean and software for data centres to use 25% less energy are all more science than fiction thanks to these 10 spinouts.

Brazil's corporate venturing ecosystem is still relatively young, with the majority of progammes set up in the last three years.

How you set up effective performance metrics for teams whose outcomes are a combination of tangible and intangible effects, is often as much about influence and learning, as it is about revenue.

Investors are becoming increasingly comfortable in putting their money behind national defence.

Christoph Moning, a professor at Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Science since 2014, is the new vice-president for research and knowledge transfer.

Corporate investors increasingly come from an entrepreneurship background or have deep operational expertise in their sector.