Global University Venturing

Sector report: Media

A large number of new CVC units have been set up in the past few years. How will these newcomers weather the coming downturn?

The Global University Venturing deal net rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem.

The Global University Venturing deal net rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem.

Princeton University has selected its Susan Dod Brown professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering Craig Arnold as its vice-dean for innovation.

Kimberly Gramm has been named the inaugural David and Marion Mussafer chief innovation and entrepreneurship officer at Tulane University.

Chevron led a $100m round, backed also by a group of other corporates, raised by the carbon capture specialist.

Several China-based corporate venture investors backed a large round valuing lithium-ion battery Shanghai Shanshan material producer at $1.5bn. The deal highlights the importance of battery technologies not only for the emerging kind of mobility applications but for the process of energy transition as a whole.

Berkeley Frontier Fund will provide growth-stage funding to companies emerging out of the University of California campus, and has already made four investments.

Migdal and Menora Mivtachim helped renewable energy infrastructure developer Fu-Gen with fresh funding which will help expand its operations in the UK and Finland. This is a deal from the renewable energy space, which continues to see much momentum in the context of energy transition.

Sector report: energy Q1 2022