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$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

UK government should create university fund accelerator to boost spinouts – think…

The recommendations by UK research organisation Onward are aimed at increasing venture capital investment for underfunded technology transfer offices outside the Golden Triangle.

Aug 22, 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

European universities ahead of the US in having an investment fund

The number of funds is the same but European ones cover multiple universities — and the US still creates more university spinouts.

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

Stellenbosch University venture fund reshapes tech innovation in South Africa

Stellenbosch's university venture fund, the first of its kind in Africa, has been a “huge paradigm shift" in the ecosystem.

Aug 14, 2024

Give graduates green cards to fuel startup growth

Permanent residence cards for graduates of science and technology degrees and talent exchange programmes are some of the solutions touted for startups seeking to hire high-skilled people.

Aug 6, 2024

University venture funds and minimal equity are key to spinout success

The University of Auckland in New Zealand tripled the rate of spinouts it created by launching a fund to invest in its university startups and lowering its equity stake.

Aug 2, 2024

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UK universities lower spinout equity stakes amid calls for growth

Influential university groups like TenU and the policy agenda of the new UK Labour government are leading to a rethink on the appropriate ownership that universities should take in spinouts.

Jul 29, 2024

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

Loccisano heads University of Bologna’s incubator Almacube

The tech transfer expert has been appointed to lead the Italian university's accelerator.

Jul 19, 2024

Cardiff University sets out to be leader in social sciences spinouts

The UK university sees its focus on social sciences spinouts as a way to drive civic engagement.

Jul 18, 2024

Horst succeeds Roth at NUtech Ventures

Cheryl Horst has been appointed interim executive director at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s tech transfer office as Brad Roth prepares to retire.

Jul 16, 2024

University of Arkansas’s Goforth moves to US's National Science Foundation

Sarah Goforth, the former executive director of the University of Arkansas’s Office of Entrepreneurship, is now on assignment to the National Science Foundation.

Jul 12, 2024

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How Basel supercharged its spinout rate

Basel has quietly built a life sciences ecosystem that’s becoming hard to ignore.

Feb 27, 2024

Resistance is futile: seven superconductor companies that want to change the world

From healthcare to fusion to quantum computing to space, superconductors have the potential to revolutionise the world. And the technology is finally ready to commercialise.

Nov 6, 2023

Race to find (and fund) the new diabetes spinouts

From needleless wearables that monitor glucose to thermal imaging that prevents amputations, spinouts are improving care for a disease that affects 550m people.

Aug 17, 2023

Spinout factories: why Ireland's universities punch above their weight

From a university-owned farm and a state agency that funds TTOs and invests in spinouts to a national IP protocol, Ireland has a lot to teach others.

Jun 14, 2023
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