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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, 2024

University 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, 2024

UK 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, 2024

UK'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, 2024

Shariv 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, 2024

Phillips 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, 2024

Pradhan 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, 2024

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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, 2024

Hunt 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, 2024

Weldon 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, 2024

Red 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, 2024

UK 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, 2024

University 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, 2024

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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, 2024

Russell 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, 2022

100 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, 2022

Willey 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.

Sep 21, 2022
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