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The UK university has ramped up partnerships with corporates and opened global offices in a bid to improve the success of its spinouts.
Funds are welcoming corporate investors with open arms as the university spinout sector reaches a level of maturity where exits are expected to ramp up.
The new North America University Innovations Fund will invest in technologies coming out of federal research and university labs.
The CEO of the university spinout fund is leaving at the end of this year.
The foundation backs Georgia Institute of Technology's spinouts in areas including medtech, robotics, AI, marketplaces and defence.
The VC firm is raising money from investors for its second UK spinout fund.
The US university has partnered with a Silicon Valley-based VC firm to manage the investment fund.
Investors and university tech transfer should educate policymakers on the need for federal funds.
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Early-stage VC Velocity manage the independently run fund, which backs spinouts from the Canadian university.
Tech transfer arm Edinburgh Innovations has created a new role of director of venture creation to increase the number of companies it spins out.
The British Business Bank plans to invest in university spinout investment funds outside of the Golden Triangle.
It becomes the fourth academic institution in the north of England to join the university spinout investor.
Van Wensveen worked in commercialisation at Austrialian government research organisation CSIRO for more more than three years before joining the ventures fund.
The federal cuts to science and research funding mean US universities are leaning more on spinout funds and tech transfer offices to generate income.
Could we save the environment one parcel at a time? Politecnico di Milano’s packaging technology spinout Voidless hopes so.
Oxford Quantum Circuits' series A round is already among the largest for a European quantum company and could still go higher.
Global University Venturing (GUV) is where tech transfer, academic and investment experts meet to explore the latest ideas and technologies driving innovation forward. We drive the discussions and share best practices that are critical to the success of spinouts, scaleouts and innovation programmes. Our aim is to help improve the processes of bringing innovations from academia to global markets and facilitate their integration into the broader business ecosystem.
