Alastair Hick spent, up until now senior director of Monash Innovation, will serve as the university’s inaugural chief commercialisation officer.
IP Group has established Kiko Ventures to build out its existing $215m cleantech portfolio and will invest $245m over the next five years.
Just one week after investing in University of Melbourne’s Genesis Pre-Seed Fund, Breakthrough Victoria has unveiled plans to create funds with more local universities.
Osage University Partners has added MicroTransponder to a small but mightly portfolio of medical device companies.
Ascenion and Goethe University Frankfurt are among the initiators of Carma Fund I, which will help start up and fund early life science projects.
Chalmers spinout Elypta is working on a metabolism-based liquid biopsy for early cancer detection that it hopes will catch any type of the disease.
The embattled commercialisation firm reduced losses by nearly $40m but now has only one board member left in interim chairman Bruce Failing.
Tin Alley Ventures and Genesis Pre-Seed Fund will have a total of nearly $81m at their disposal to invest in University of Melbourne’s innovations.
Orphan CNS therapy developer Minoryx Therapeutics closed a $54.8m series C and MIT's The Engine co-led a $10.5m seed round for Foundation Alloy.
Evotec has bought University of Modena and Reggio Emilia spinout Rigenerand for $24.7m.
ZGT has raised $48m from Tsinghua Holdings Capital, CAS Star and others, while University of Cambridge spinout Colorifix has pocketed $22.7m.
The Global University Venturing deal net rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem.
A roundup of exits, including IPOs and acquisitions, across the tech transfer ecosystem.
The Global University Venturing deal net rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem.
IP Group has established Kiko Ventures to build out its existing $215m cleantech portfolio and will invest $245m over the next five years.
Tin Alley Ventures and Genesis Pre-Seed Fund will have a total of nearly $81m at their disposal to invest in University of Melbourne’s innovations.
The investment company set up by the universities of Manchester, Sheffield and Leeds has achieved a first close of $268m.
Yale Ventures has been launched to oversee the university’s innovation and entrepreneurship activities, including the tech transfer office.
Global University Venturing is a quarterly magazine and website written for and about universities taking stakes in the spinout companies of staff and students. We help universities to share best practice and to connect with each other, with investors and with other useful parties in the innovation ecosystem. Our aim is to help improve the processes of bringing innovations from academia to the market and facilitate their integration into the business ecosystem.
