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Databricks cofounder launches $150m spinout fund with UC Berkeley focus
The investment fund will mostly back founders from the US university.
Dec 11, 2024Most top UK universities adopt lower spinout equity
Many of the UK's universities have adopted recommendations to lower equity stakes in the companies they commercialise to at or below 25%.
Nov 21, 2024University of South Australia picks Perugini to lead commercialisation
Michelle Perugini, who was a senior research fellow with the Australian university earlier in her career, has been hired as head of commercialisation.
Nov 20, 2024UniTartu’s Maasik joins Nordic Science Investments
Mart Maasik has stepped down as chief executive of UniTartu Ventures at the University of Tartu to join a $63 spinout investment fund.
Nov 14, 2024Trinity College Dublin hires Coole to manage knowledge exchange
Vincent Coole, who built a programme University of Birmingham programme to commercialise technology before creating a spinout, has joined Trinity College Dublin.
Nov 12, 2024Singapore's Nanyang University launches $38m venture fund
The university is the latest academic institution in the Asian country to launch an investment fund to support spinouts.
Nov 5, 2024Imperial College London plugs into Silicon Valley with US office
The UK university has set up physical presence in San Francisco to be closer to US investors and companies it seeks to partner with.
Nov 1, 2024Universities in northeast England form $30m spinout fund
The universities of Durham, Newcastle, Northumbria, Sunderland and Teesside are the latest group of academic institutions in the UK to launch a fund to invest in their spinouts.
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London (UK)News Continued
UK universities launch $390m spinout investment company
SETsquared's investment vehicle will fund companies that are spun out of the universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey.
Oct 11, 2024Technical University of Denmark's VC unit launches $56.5m deep tech fund
The Danish university's VC subsidiary, PSV Foundry, set up the fund to investment in environmental sustainability companies.
Oct 11, 2024Princeton University creates office of innovation to expand ecosystem
The US university has created a new office to coordinate its efforts to expand the startup ecosystem in its base of New Jersey and the broader region.
Oct 8, 2024Tom Flanagan retires from University College Dublin’s innovation unit
Flanagan doubled the Irish university's spinout rate during his time there.
Oct 8, 2024Spinout investor Kurma Partners raises $154m for biotech fund
The European venture capital firm aims to raise a total €250m for its fourth fund by next year.
Oct 4, 2024University of the Arts London pitches joint tech transfer office for social…
The UK institution has secured financing to launch a shared tech transfer office that will help develop more spinouts from the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Oct 2, 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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