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Pearse Coyle worked with Innovate UK to upgrade their pre-accelerator programme ICURe and teach would-be founders to raise cash early.
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.
SETsquared's investment vehicle will fund companies that are spun out of the universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey.
The Danish university's VC subsidiary, PSV Foundry, set up the fund to investment in environmental sustainability companies.
Flanagan doubled the Irish university's spinout rate during his time there.
The European venture capital firm aims to raise a total €250m for its fourth fund by next year.
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.
Barnett led consulting services at the University of Oxford's commercialisation arm where she increased revenue and service performance.
The fund is part of a broader plan to create an innovation and startup cluster in the Italian city of Milan.
The former startup founder and Silicon Valley investor will head the University of Cambridge’s commercialisation arm.
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.
