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With a £15m commitment, Aviva’s investment in Cambridge Innovation Capital’s new Opportunity Fund marks its continuing backing of the Cambridge startup ecosystem
The small German academic institution generates an outsize number of unicorns.
Aleta Knowles was a former member of the Uniseed investment committee during her time at University of New South Wales.
Professors have academic teaching obligations that can distract them from leading a spinout, but their technical expertise is also often invaluable to its commercial success.
A 14-fold increase on the UK government's funding budget for proving the commercial viability of early-stage technologies would be transformative.
The US university claims to be ranked second in the US for company formation.
Pooling tech transfer resources could help smaller universities commercialise technology that they can't push out on their own.
Our pick of spinout technologies that are breaking new ground in plastics recycling, data storage, photonics, semiconductor materials and decoding the genome.
Japan has a well-funded and vibrant market for deep tech companies spun out of its universities. Here are some of the quirks that foreign investors seeking to dip a toe into the sector should look out for.
University venture funds are becoming an increasingly important tool for universities to support their ecosystems — here are the new ones launched in 2024.
The UK stands to benefit from the work of the past 12 months to push more university research-led innovation into the marketplace.
The investment fund will mostly back founders from the US university.
The US university has formed an industry-university partnership to advance aspects such as sustainable agriculture in the whiskey distilling industry.
Setting up investment committees made up of industry, venture capital and academics is a way to ensure limited proof-of-concept funds are allocated fairly to UK universities.
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.
Early-stage VC Velocity manage the independently run fund, which backs spinouts from the Canadian university.
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.
