Global University Venturing

The value of VC deals in China tumbled 44% to $62.1bn by the end of October, but energy-related startups are still raising big rounds.

Several new entrants to the corporate venturing sector could keep the number of active units above their pre-pandemic highs.

Grace Wang is leaving Ohio State University after two years to become president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Investors either focus almost exclusively on investments where there was a commercial deal, or avoid any requirement at all.

Michael Connallon Jr is the new chairman of the Rowan Innovation Venture Fund, the freshly topped up venture capital arm of Rowan University.

The shutdown of Argo.AI is a blow to the self-driving dream (and a loss for its carmaker backers). But is transport CVC merely maturing?

Mart Maasik is the head of University of Tartu’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation Centre, but will also remain head of UniTartu Ventures.

CasInvent Pharma’s approach is aimed at three forms of cancer rather than just one, with leukaemia, lymphoma and solid tumours all in its sights.

Some 31% of corporate investors told us that the main thing they wanted to get from their startup investments was insights.

The value of corporate-backed deals in the energy sector dropped in Q3 but the overall pace of deal making remains steady.

Spinouts have defied the slump in the rest of the market, with deal numbers up 10% from last year. The average size of seed and series B rounds has actually increased.