Tomorrow night, the Global University Venturing Awards will return. The ceremony will be held as part of a gala dinner on the eve of our annual GUV: Fusion conference in London, run – as in previous years – in parallel with the GCV Symposium of our sister publication Global Corporation Venturing.
Here is our shortlist.
Tech Transfer Unit of the Year
Oxford University Innovation
Cambridge Enterprise
UCLA Technology Development Group
Warwick Ventures
Satt Sud-Est
Innovations & Partnerships Office (Toronto University)
Personality of the Year
Tony Raven, Cambridge Enterprise
Lesley Millar-Nicholson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
David Norwood, Oxford Sciences Innovation
James Wilkie, Alta Innovations
Russ Cummings, Touchstone Innovations
Christine Gulbranson, University of California
Fundraising of the Year
Tsinghua Holdings
Oxford Sciences Innovation
The Engine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Apollo Therapeutics
CD3 Fund (KU Leuven)
Keio Innovation Initiative
Investment Unit of the Year
IP Group
Touchstone Innovations
Osage University Partners
Cambridge Innovation Capital
Uniseed
Deal of the Year
Carrick Therapeutics (University of Cambridge)
Cell Design Labs (University of California, San Francisco)
Quantum Imaging (University of Leeds)
Aprea (Karolinska Institutet)
Quanterix (Tufts University)
Nexeon (Imperial College London)
Technology of the Year
Gusto Global (University of Chicago)
BlueRock Therapeutics (Kyoto University)
Consequential Robotics (University of Sheffield)
Microsure (Eindhoven University of Technology, Maastricht UMC+)
Nova Leah (Dundalk Institute of Technology)
Exit of the Year
Abvitro (Harvard University)
RetroSense Therapeutics (Wayne State University)
FanDuel (University of Edinburgh – merged with DraftKings)
iRhythm Technologies (Stanford University)
Novan Therapeutics (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Diurnal (University of Sheffield)
Lifetime Achievement Award
This award is in recognition of a person whose career and dedication to technology transfer have had a profound impact on the sector. The recipient will be disclosed on the night.
