
The number of deals in UK spinouts at the earliest stage of equity investing has been falling over the past few years, highlighting a potential bottleneck in early-stage funding.
The state-backed Luxembourg Future Fund has put $5.4m into VIVES Inter-University Fund, bringing the multi-university venture fund’s new total to $80.5m.
Kathryn Chapman has been made executive director of the association promoting Cambridge's innovation ecosystem.
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.
The recommendations by UK research organisation Onward are aimed at increasing venture capital investment for underfunded technology transfer offices outside the Golden Triangle.
The number of funds is the same but European ones cover multiple universities — and the US still creates more university spinouts.
The investor in university spinouts wants to take on external limited partners to raise more money for companies seeking scale-up capital.
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.
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.
The tech transfer expert has been appointed to lead the Italian university's accelerator.