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Chapman appointed executive director of Innovate Cambridge
Kathryn Chapman has been made executive director of the association promoting Cambridge's innovation ecosystem.
Sep 4, 2024$200m spinout fund to launch with UK pension money
VC firm Future Planet Capital and pension solutions provider Mobius Life will launch the fund in Q1 of 2025 to take advantage of UK pension reform.
Sep 3, 2024University of Washington VC firm launches $30m second fund
Pack Ventures, an independent venture capital fund that invests in University of Washington spinouts, is raising more money to invest in the Seattle region.
Aug 20, 2024UK spinout firm Northern Gritstone to tap external VC investors
The investor in university spinouts wants to take on external limited partners to raise more money for companies seeking scale-up capital.
Aug 19, 2024UK's University of Bath hires Sophie Collet as tech transfer director
Collet has spent most of her career at the University of Bristol where she was a director in its division of research and enterprise.
Aug 16, 2024Shariv heads University Medical Center Göttingen’s new tech transfer office
The technology transfer veteran has been made head of the German teaching hospital's new technology transfer office.
Jul 24, 2024Phillips to leave the University of Kentucky’s tech transfer team
After 25 years at the university, Taunya Phillips is leaving her role as director of the Office of Technology Commercialisation
Jul 24, 2024Pradhan joins University of Wyoming in innovation role
With nearly forty years of experience in tech transfer, Arundeep Pradhan will now co-manage the University of Wyoming's research and innovation division
Jul 23, 2024Categories
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Singapore medical school launches $15m incubator to create spinouts
Live Ventures will fund spinouts and mentor academic researchers from the medical university.
Jul 22, 2024Hunt takes on new innovation role at University of Bath
Hunt returns to the UK university where he first held a director of research and innovation services role between 2014 and 2018.
Jul 16, 2024Weldon joins Cambridge Enterprise as head of tech development
Weldon spent 20 years at US industrial gas supplier Air Products before moving into university technology transfer.
Jul 15, 2024Red Bear Ventures brings fund to Cornell University
RBV’s inaugural fund will invest in startups emerging out of Cornell in a sign that university ecosystems are increasingly of interest to investors.
Jul 10, 2024UK university group calls for fund to finance spinouts outside Golden Triangle
The Russell Group of the UK's top research universities is calling on the the country's new Labour government to boost investment in spinouts across all regions of the UK.
Jul 9, 2024University of Michigan officially launches $5m venture fund
The fund will write cheques for early-stage spinouts from the state's 15 public universities.
Jul 4, 2024Editor's Picks
GV makes another bet on CRISPR with Moonwalk investment
GV backs another spinout by MIT’s serial entrepreneur Feng Zhang as epigenetics becomes an emerging area of healthcare.
Jan 11, 2024Russell is the new PraxisAuril CEO
David Russell, an executive-in-residence at Oxford’s Saïd Business School, has been appointed chief executive of PraxisAuril, following in the footsteps of Maxine Ficarra.
Dec 8, 2022100 sign Innovate Cambridge charter
Cambridge Enterprise, Cambridge Innovation Capital and University of Cambridge are joined by 100 signatories like AstraZeneca and Microsoft for the Innovate Cambridge initiative.
Dec 8, 2022Willey to leave IU Ventures
Teri Willey, whose long list of accomplishments includes founding Cambridge Enterprise, will step down in November this year to focus on other projects.
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